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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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The Facebook blog post would probably be a better source, since it explains the nature of the data: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2019/11/05/changes...

I.e. apps added to a group by an admin could get some metadata about members of the group.

(That blog post would also have been harder to mis-interpret than the NBC article. Half the early comments seem to think that this was about Facebook engineers improperly accessing data.)

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ar…

I wonder how many people think like this. Obviously the Roman Empire did not constitute the entire planet, so the claim that world peace was achieved should be provably false.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ar…

I wonder how many people think like this. Obviously the Roman Empire did not constitute the entire planet, so the claim that world peace was achieved should be provably false.

Pax Romana, look it up.

Of course some of the most horrific of emperors ruled during that period.

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 Faceb…

Hadn’t heard about this. Certainly casts their recent cozying up to the Republican establishment in a new light (i.e. avoiding further enforcement actions).

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

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ar…

Pax Romana, like pax mongolica or pax americana, wasn't/isn't as "peaceful" as it is made out to be.

Secondly, Augustus didn't establish "world peace". He established "peace" in the roman empire, which isn't the world.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how many people think like this. Obviously the Roman Empire did not constitute the entire planet, so the claim that world peace was achieved should be provably false.

Pax Romana, look it up. Of course some of the most horrific of emperors ruled during that period.

Oh okay, I didn't realize that the Roman Empire covered the whole world and everyone lived in Rome during Pax Romana. Thank you for correcting me.

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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”.

I know it’s a ceaser but I’d love to hear how a robot describes it.
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