What's the over/under on any asking "Are we the baddies?"
Facebook will hold emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about CA
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Re: Facebook will hold emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about CA
#32> The meeting, which is scheduled for 10AM PT, will be led by Paul Grewal, the company’s deputy general counsel. What? Paul Grewal was a judge who presided over Facebook court cases. How is that legal?
Apparently he recused himself from FB trials during the time that FB was interested in hiring him in 2016: https://www.engadget.com/2016/05/13/facebook-hires-u-s-magis...
For a single month, he was in that position for six years prior though. Not necessarily wrong but it doesn't look great. Probably a normal level of revolving door though.
Re: Facebook will hold emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about CA
#33Does anyone really believe that FB wants to figure out what went wrong? For some reason, I imagine it playing out like the "Top Men" scene from Indiana Jones.
They know what went wrong, they already fixed the barn door a while ago, although 50M profiles had already left the barn.
And they are angry (or should be). Not because they care about users, but because their business is selling influence, and it's not enough that someone managed to outsmart them and sell the most expensive form of influence using facebook's data (with facebook getting little or nothing, certainly not the lion's share or even 100% as they are used to when selling influence) - they are being publicly shamed about it.
Everyone who cared (including facebook, politicians, journalists, and a non-trivial amount of the population) knew what was happening. Every single thing about the outrage is a charade, except perhaps Facebook's outrage that CA ate their lunch and left them holding the bag.
Re: Facebook will hold emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about CA
#34It's still a little unclear to me what Facebook did wrong here. (Besides suspending the whistleblowers account, which seems like a dumb move.) Is it that they collect too much data? We've known that they been doing that for years. Is it that they allow apps to read not only your data but your friends data? That's not a surprise either. So some company somewhere figured out a way to abuse these already known parts of…
Well there's three parts to this: One is that data was collected without consent - ie, the third party can collect information about me because my friend gave consent. That's something that facebook has actually stopped now - but the damage is already done. The second is that Facebook weren't diligent with who allowed to access this data - the 'researcher' collected data and then passed it to a commercial entity with…
But you consented to give your data to your friend... why is it Facebook's problem what your friend does with your data?