Posted on 03/20/2018 11:47:03 AM PDT by C19fan
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users are likely to have had their private information harvested by companies that exploited the same terms as the firm that collected data and passed it on to Cambridge Analytica, according to a new whistleblower.
Sandy Parakilas, the platform operations manager at Facebook responsible for policing data breaches by third-party software developers between 2011 and 2012, told the Guardian he warned senior executives at the company that its lax approach to data protection risked a major breach.
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I think a lot of people could see this coming from a mile away, back when Facebook became a “thing”.
This was not a “breach”.
This is how Facebook is supposed to work.
At the least, FB facilitates identity theft of it’s users.
Yeah, except the broadcaster doesn’t own your radio for the privilege of listening to their program. Facebook goes way over the top with their “ownership” of your own photos and other data and then they ruin even that by impoosing their “algorithms” to determine what you do and don’t see and who will and won’t see those photos you gave up.
I left FB this year after threatening to do so for a very long time. I am quite glad that I did. I miss very little of it. And stuff like this story tend to just amuse me now.
Again, I just assumed that was how it worked. I didn’t sign an agreement with the radio station.
I use Facebook for my primary source of news and do post political offerings. I also expect that I’m being “spied” on. I don’t care.
Its free. Anyone can have access to your behavioral and statistical info if you want to use their platform. There are security measures a user can take, but you have to keep up with them.
-PJ
Whoa, whoa, whoa... You mean if you freely give you personal information to somebody on the internet, they may actually give your information to somebody else for $$$... That is astounding? Seriously astounding that anybody would be even the slightest be surprised by that fact.
How stupid can you be? Apparently if you’re a member of the news media... Pretty freaking stupid.
About 10 years ago I worked for a fortune 100 company who paid to NOT allow our employees to see facebook data. That company had a privacy policy that was extremely restrictive - WE could not know anything about a customer that the customer didn’t explicitly and knowingly provide to us (not just provided to facebook). Standard tools and reports from facebook partners showed all data, so we paid to have custom tools and reports that met our privacy standards.
Data was a huge part of facebook’s business then and the amount of data they tried to sell us 10 years ago was huge. I can only imagine how it is now and I’m sure they haven’t cut back on data collection or selling the data. As a public company, I think they should have to provide the same services to any customer (just like Christian bakers) and not just to liberal customers.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2546
I think this is a good reference on some inappropriate bias by Facebook trying to rig the presidential election.
We seriously need a more moderate or conservative channel for social media than Facebook as they have proven to be pretty extreme left. Any suggestions?
So that’s why the little turd is so rich. He sold his customers to the devil
Exactly. What is it that people don’t understand? They think Facebook exists to help people communicate with each other?
If you use FaceBook, Twitter, etc...YOU are the product. YOU and YOUR likes, needs, and opinions are the things being mined, extracted, and sold.
You surrender that information voluntarily. What is it that people don’t understand about this?
Because apparently it benefited Trump, not Hillary.
- How the MSM has insinuated some sort of plot between Trump and Cambridge Analytica to misuse our sacred personal data
Even worse will be when they find out that a RUSSIAN worked at/for Cambridge Analytica!
Their data is skewed anyway. Everybody is richer, smarter, more intelligent, more exciting, more beautiful and more attractive than in reality.
The whole thing has made me feel sick every time I go to FB so I haven’t even opened it in weeks. Zuck F#ckerberg.
Still pisses me off that Obama harvested it illegally.
They follow you even when logged out. No need to check in.
That is not the point of Facebook. The point of FB is to capture connections. To capture who you know, and who interacts with you.
For now, this info may be of no value to anyone. But if you, or anyone on your FB lists BECOMES interesting to anyone, whether through being involved in some event, or having some position of influence, then knowing everything about that person's connections, and being able to sift through it all within seconds of that entity deciding to take an interest -- that info becomes very valuable.
You never know what the future may hold, and information, once on the Internet, can never be called back. You may not think you will ever come to the hostile attention of anybody. Can you be so certain that none of your kids, cousins, nieces, nephews, etc will ever be subject to hostile attention.
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