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This is a slight side issue, but this section really struck me as interesting: "Facebook has tangled with regulators before. What it does with its customers’ d
by leoh 14y ago
This is a slight side issue, but this section really struck me as interesting:
"Facebook has tangled with regulators before. What it does with its customers’ data attracted the attention of the F.T.C., which accused it last year of 'unfair and deceptive' practices. The agency’s settlement with the company required Facebook to submit to privacy audits for 20 years."
It reminded me a lot if that scene in Ghostbusters where the regulators showed up to inspect the facility and clearly had no idea what was going on, even though they had suspicions of something nefarious. With such a complex, proprietary system like Facebook I just can't see the efficacy of external security audits. Kind of scary territory.
- nwh 14y agoAn auditor is faced with a massive system of data collection that no one person in the world could possibly understand without having written it themselves. They can only go by the information the company gives them, which is obviously not trustworthy. I'm not saying that Facebook has done anything wrong, but if they had, an external audit wouldn't have a hope of finding it.