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Facebook says one hundred API users may have improperly accessed user data

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Re: Facebook says one hundred API users may have improperly accessed user data

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> “Although we’ve seen no evidence of abuse, we will ask them to delete any member data they may have retained and we will conduct audits to confirm that it has been deleted,” the company said in the blog post.

I wonder how these "audits" are done? Force the individuals into a legal agreement through threat of a larger action?

Re: Facebook says one hundred API users may have improperly accessed user data

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> “Although we’ve seen no evidence of abuse, we will ask them to delete any member data they may have retained and we will conduct audits to confirm that it has been deleted,” the company said in the blog post. I wonder how these "audits" are done? Force the individuals into a legal agreement through threat of a larger action?

The audits are a figment of a lawyer's imagination.

Edit: when I wrote this I assumed "developers" meant employees of Facebook who work as developers. Actually they're referring not to "developers" but 3rd parties to whom they issued access tokens. My comment is still valid..

Re: Facebook says one hundred API users may have improperly accessed user data

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Could this be related to upcoming release of internal documents?

>Big new leak of internal Facebook docs to be published Thursday. There’s been extraordinary attempts by Facebook to suppress this including seeking disclosure of emails sent to journalists & MPs

https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/119140241162292838...

>At noon on Wednesday, Dublin time, I + others will publish full copies of 6,971 pages of Facebook confidential and legal documents, leaked in February.

https://twitter.com/dcampbell_iptv/status/119139795858925977...

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> “Although we’ve seen no evidence of abuse, we will ask them to delete any member data they may have retained and we will conduct audits to confirm that it has been deleted,” the company said in the blog post. I wonder how these "audits" are done? Force the individuals into a legal agreement through threat of a larger action?

They make them pinky promise. (Can't break a pinky promise.)

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Totally off topic but I’d love to hear what Mark tells the barber when asked how he likes his hair.

The hairstyle is called a “Caesar”.

https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-fascinated-b...

"My wife was making fun of me, saying she thought there were three people on the honeymoon: me, her, and Augustus," Zuckerberg told the New Yorker. "All the photos were different sculptures of Augustus."

On his fascination with Augustus, Zuckerberg said, "Basically, through a really harsh approach, he established two hundred years of world peace. What are the trade-offs in that? On the one hand, world peace is a long-term goal that people talk about today. Two hundred years feels unattainable."

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