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Being opt-in and getting compensated are the two things I've seen people want from usage of their data. No one should have an issue with this since it does both.

> Suppose tech companies were no longer legally allowed to use the network effect (i.e. they had to provide open-access to their public data via API). Facebook and Twitter have pub…

You have to give Facebook a copy of your ID, your SSN and wait for them to snail-mail you a code before you can get as far as Vice did. There's nothing friction-less about it.

> No one is seriously asking Apple to police hate speech in iMessage or Facetime, for instance Many people are demanding that Facebook do exactly this.

Most founders of major acquisitions leave after a year or two. The founders of Instagram and WhatsApp were at Facebook for more than 5+ years. That's very rare.

This Twitter thread by Alex Stamos (former Facebook CSO) is a good rebut to this: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1046783533220421632 . Bottom line: you can do incident respo…

There's going to be a Sputnik moment in the next decade or two where The West wakes up to how far it's fallen behind in this area.

That already exists. If you click the menu icon next to an ad on Facebook you can select "Why am I seeing this?". You can also see all the advertisers who have targeted you on http…

Your employment history isn't private information. It's sold by data brokers to companies for recruiting.

Favebook’s policy for not giving information to family members came out of situations where the decreased was not on good terms with their family. When to give out information and …

No company cares about you, but Facebook probably cares more than other big tech companies (Google, Microsoft, etc.) if only because your feelings drive your usage of its services.…

Facebook doesn't sell data, and unless you think it's a bad thing for them to have an API then they don't distribute data either.

"These weren’t very hard to find. It was as easy as a simple Google search."

The difficulty is that in many cases it's the local authorities who are the ones spreading the inflammatory content and their requests for moderation are actually requests for cens…

GDPR doesn't go into effect until May 25. The article states that this is a test that will become opt-in at that time.

> People didn't realize Facebook was selling their secrets. Facebook doesn't sell data, it sells ads.

The data accessed here was from a smaller unrelated research study. The only thing it has in common with the larger CA leak is that it was done by the same researcher.