U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research
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#2Do billionaires not need friends? I don't see how anyone with an iota of intelligence or morality could accept Zuck's wretched impact on humanity.
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#3So this is basically just a strongly worded letter.
Anything here or elsewhere suggestive of the FTC actually doing anything else, like investigating for other wrongful denial of service?
....would that even be within their powers to investigate?
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#4Do billionaires not need friends? I don't see how anyone with an iota of intelligence or morality could accept Zuck's wretched impact on humanity.
And the hundreds (thousands?) of millionaires who work there, designing and implementing all this stuff.
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#5Don’t most websites prohibit someone from scraping and harvesting the data on them? Most recently, I can think of Yelp, Amazon, and GitHub prohibiting this, as well as the Aaron Swartz case.
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#6Do billionaires not need friends? I don't see how anyone with an iota of intelligence or morality could accept Zuck's wretched impact on humanity.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
This quote shows up often, but it really is just perfectly pithy.
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#7“The FTC received no notice that Facebook would be publicly invoking our consent decree to justify terminating academic research earlier this week.”
Of course they didn't. After you are fined 5b it's no surprise you go full on defensive. What's the alternative? Asking the ftc every single time what they should do?
I'm no fan of Facebook but if they didn't stop the research they could be found guilty again for the exact same reason
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#8Do billionaires not need friends? I don't see how anyone with an iota of intelligence or morality could accept Zuck's wretched impact on humanity.
Many (like me) believe Facebook is net good for the world.
I’m able to stay connected with friends (many of whom live very far), like know what’s going on in their lives and share my world.
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#9Do not associate with employees of Facebook.
If you are at any of the FAANG companies actually, you're a fucking parasite!
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#10Don’t most websites prohibit someone from scraping and harvesting the data on them? Most recently, I can think of Yelp, Amazon, and GitHub prohibiting this, as well as the Aaron Swartz case.
Up until June 14th of this year, the ruling was that scraping is legal from the HiQ vs LinkedIn lawsuit[0].
While finding that link for you, I learned that since that date, the Supreme Court vacated the decision back to the lower courts in light of a new decision of theirs.[1]
Now I don't think it's clear one way or the other just yet. Any lawyers here with an opinion on how this is going to go? I haven't found any analysis.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn
[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-supreme-court-revives-...