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Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation
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Re: Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation
#92If they're serious about this, and I'm leaning toward they aren't really serious about it, this will affect a lot of startups, specifically in advertising, but probably a lot of mobile apps as well: “First, we will investigate all apps that had access to large amounts of information before we changed our platform to dramatically reduce data access in 2014, and we will conduct a full audit of any app with suspicious a…
> They’re also pointing out that Zuck is fine meeting with Xi Jinping, meeting with Medvedev but refuses to appear before the US Congress and sends the company counsel instead.
Worth noting that Zuck wants something from Xi and Medvedev, has everything he needs in terms of support from the US Gov.
Re: Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation
#93Let’s not waste a perfectly good crisis.
Ask Zuckerberg to reveal all of the psychological test data he has, which shows the mental health effects of spending too much time on Facebook.
Ask for a list of all employees whose parents and spouses are judges and politicians.
Ask for a data dump of the actual data points used to make suggestions in Suggested Friends.
Ask for the data Facebook buys about you from Datalogix and others.
You will be met with silence.
This man is a crook. And far worse than the world knows.
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#94"I started Facebook, and at the end of the day I'm responsible for what happens on our platform."
Regardless of my feelings about how this was handled, I appreciate the level of leadership accountability demonstrated in this statement. I wish that more founders, CEOs, and politicians facing difficult circumstances would adopt this perspective. Even if you didn't personally code/negotiate/write it - you made managerial decisions (hiring, culture, review process, etc) that induced it.
Re: Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation
#95I don't agree with people who think these scandals will be the end of Facebook. Instead, Facebook will become more entrenched as it develops advanced features to handle national security issues, allow users more sophisticated control over their data, etc. I like that Zuckerburg explicitly takes personal responsibility for everything that happens on his platform in this post.
FB will be fully integrated as part of the surveillance state soon enough.
> that Zuckerburg explicitly takes personal responsibility for everything that happens on his platform
Sorry, but bullshit. He may say that, but I'll believe it when he publishes the agreement he signed that makes him personally liable for lawsuits.
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#96> First, we will investigate all apps that had access to large amounts of information before we changed our platform to dramatically reduce data access in 2014, and we will conduct a full audit of any app with suspicious activity.
> Second, we will restrict developers' data access even further to prevent other kinds of abuse.
> Third, we want to make sure you understand which apps you've allowed to access your data. In the next month, we will show everyone a tool at the top of your News Feed with the apps you've used and an easy way to revoke those apps' permissions to your data.
All of these points don't address what actually happened. It's not like CA had a feed of FB's user data. It was harvested. And saved. And data, like diamonds, is forever.
The problem is that FB simply has too much information about us. The #deleteFacebook moment is a wake-up call not so much for FB's tone-deaf execs, but moreso for the masses that (probably until now) never realized how much data FB has on every single one of us.
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#97The trusting developers not to sell any data but putting zero safeguards in place to prevent this and extremely punitive repercussions despite being repeatedly told by the public, media, and even high level employees tells me Facebook can't plead ignorance to this and they not only knew this was happening, but they probably intended for it to happen. They knew it was illegal but put all the incentives for companies n…
What kind of safeguards would you introduce? At the very start of Facebook platform the API would anonymize the user's email address, the app would get an app-specific hash, e.g. abcdefg-app123456@facebook.net It was a working email address with Facebook handling the forwarding. This proved futile as the very first thing that apps then did was to ask users for their real email address.
They could aggressively pursue enforcement and punitive measures. It's not about preventing everything that could possibly go awry, but making it well-known in the developer community that Facebook/Platform has no problem shutting you down if you egregiously break the rules.
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#98Facebook and Google provide very basic internet services that really should be provided by open systems. But through luck and timing they managed to establish monopolies.
They abuse their position to extract hundreds of billions of dollars by selling their user's limited time on earth to advertisers for peanuts per user.
Feel pity for Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page that they have such fundamentally corrupt businesses and are apparently incapable of fixing them.
And applaud Apple for having created a business so well aligned with its users. It's very difficult to find examples of Apple failing to do the right thing and very easy for the other two, as in this example.
Startups should reject the rent-seeking Facebook/Google monopoly model and embrace the Apple innovation and direct-to-users model.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
I created an app so I could grant myself access to the API with it. It was an embarrassing amount of data on all your friends.
Like what?
It was years ago before they started locking down the data. I put together a web page I was going to post to show people what info they were releasing, but I felt I would get lynched by friends for posting it all.
Basically everything you see on yourself, plus pages you visit and like, groups you belong to, your picture, your friend list, as well as their friends, so it was really three steps out and included things not available through FB normally.
It was totally predictable this data would get collected and abused.
Re: Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation
#100If they're serious about this, and I'm leaning toward they aren't really serious about it, this will affect a lot of startups, specifically in advertising, but probably a lot of mobile apps as well: “First, we will investigate all apps that had access to large amounts of information before we changed our platform to dramatically reduce data access in 2014, and we will conduct a full audit of any app with suspicious a…
> but refuses to appear before the US Congress and sends the company counsel instead. This strikes me as especially interesting. I mean, I'd personally theoretically have my reservations about this congress over and above the average congress, but FaceMark refusing strikes me as a deeply telling datum about how he's thinking about this.
Basically no CEOs ever want to testify in front of a congressional committee. There is only downside to such a situation for the company. There is zero upside.
This is not a deeply telling datum. It is a boring an standard one.