Facebook Sued by Investors Over Voter-Profile Harvesting

Post by mortenjorck » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 1:05 AM UTC

downandout wrote: post #40

oldcynic wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct me where I'm wrong but did it not used to be the case that facebook apps could access almost as much info about your friends as they could about you? So where is the consent? Fred gives consent to run a personality quiz and its associated data gathering - Fred's 180 friends didn't.

That consent is contained in the TOS that you and all of your friends agreed to when you signed up for Facebook. Further, the access to friend data has always been more limited than you imply here, and more recently, it’s become so limited that using apps for data collection about friends is almost a pointless endeavor.

Post by kerng » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 1:16 AM UTC

downandout wrote: post #40

oldcynic wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct me where I'm wrong but did it not used to be the case that facebook apps could access almost as much info about your friends as they could about you? So where is the consent? Fred gives consent to run a personality quiz and its associated data gathering - Fred's 180 friends didn't.

That consent is contained in the TOS that you and all of your friends agreed to when you signed up for Facebook. Further, the access to friend data has always been more limited than you imply here, and more recently, it’s become so limited that using apps for data collection about friends is almost a pointless endeavor.

Post by mancerayder » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 1:18 AM UTC

mortenjorck wrote: post #61

downandout wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That consent is contained in the TOS that you and all of your friends agreed to when you signed up for Facebook. Further, the access to friend data has always been more limited than you imply here, and more recently, it’s become so limited that using apps for data collection about friends is almost a pointless endeavor.

"Well duh, it says it right there in section 37, paragraph 12, in dense legalese – how could anyone be surprised?" Perhaps the very best thing that could come out of this is an end to the longstanding legal fig leaf of lengthy, complex legal documents presented as click-through agreements somehow constituting "informed consent."

Post by _xczx » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 1:24 AM UTC

ppbutt wrote: post #64

So when is everybody going to band together to bury Facebook and all these other insidious tech companies?

Post by mistermann » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 1:30 AM UTC

vkou wrote: post #45

downandout wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That consent is contained in the TOS that you and all of your friends agreed to when you signed up for Facebook. Further, the access to friend data has always been more limited than you imply here, and more recently, it’s become so limited that using apps for data collection about friends is almost a pointless endeavor.

If you were to ask 30 Facebook users whether or not Fred taking a stupid personality quiz leaked all their info, 29 of them would say no. This is why we need informed consent for data collection.