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> It really seems like Aleksandr Kogan, not Facebook, is the problem here Kogan probably breached the terms he agreed to with Facebook. But fifty million people trusted Facebook with their data and, when asked in their privacy settings, said they didn't want it shared with third parties. That information was then shared with third parties. If someone calls my bank and convinces customer service they are me, it would…
Everyone sets up their own account's privacy settings though, and as far as I know, this information didn't include anything that wasn't already publicly available.
[1] 'Kogan was able to throw money at the hard problem of acquiring personal data: he advertised for people who were willing to be paid to take a personality quiz on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and Qualtrics. At the end of which Kogan’s app, called thisismydigitallife, gave him permission to access their Facebook profiles. And not just theirs, but their friends’ too. On average, each “seeder” – the people who had taken the personality test, around 320,000 in total – unwittingly gave access to at least 160 other people’s profiles, none of whom would have known or had reason to suspect.' --from https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistl...
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>If you're the kind of person who votes based on targeted advertising, or the hyperbolic posts of people who vote based on targeted advertising, don't ask Facebook to change. Get the f### off Facebook. Yeah - see that's not how it works. CA and companies like them have developed far more clever ways to influence you than targeted advertising. The best of these techniques go undetected by you, and are coordinated by m…
Don't mistake my form of emphasis as overly-emotional behavior, or my statements as any indication that I see myself as significantly more rational than the average person. There are steps you can take to make yourself less susceptible to propaganda, and it starts with disengaging from the Huxleyan, social media, dopamine machine. Until you do that it's near impossible to get a real sense of your own cognitive biases…
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That text was so long ago I don't think it's relevant anymore. Oprah Winfrey was also crack cocaine smoker in a cycle of abusive relationships in her late twenties. If people choose to change their perspectives they can, and everything indicates that Mark has matured quite a bit since then.
"Everything indicates"? Facebook's vision for their product and the future world is appalling. Zuckerberg may be doing his best, but he continues to helm a product/service which is structurally bad for its users even before you consider the surveillance aspect. What could you possibly have in mind as evidence for Zuckerberg being any more than superficially competent for the social role he is playing?
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Exactly. Also doesnt say much about Oprah maturing - search youtbe on “oprah saying white people need to die”
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/oprah-winfrey-old-white-pe... - FALSE
> there are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.
She didn't actually say white, but what else was she referring to?
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> It really seems like Aleksandr Kogan, not Facebook, is the problem here Kogan probably breached the terms he agreed to with Facebook. But fifty million people trusted Facebook with their data and, when asked in their privacy settings, said they didn't want it shared with third parties. That information was then shared with third parties. If someone calls my bank and convinces customer service they are me, it would…
Everyone sets up their own account's privacy settings though, and as far as I know, this information didn't include anything that wasn't already publicly available.
Just get the f### off Facebook, already. If you're the kind of person who votes based on targeted advertising, or the hyperbolic posts of people who vote based on targeted advertising, don't ask Facebook to change. Get the f### off Facebook. If you don't like how Facebook is being used as an addictive propaganda tool by any and all political actors, including Facebook itself, then get the f### off Facebook. Ask the F…
The people that vote based on targeted advertising may not be the ones that have a problem with it. This is like if people complained the pool has too much pee in it, you told the complainers to stop peeing in it.
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Exactly. Also doesnt say much about Oprah maturing - search youtbe on “oprah saying white people need to die”
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/oprah-winfrey-old-white-pe... - FALSE
Hmm, okay.
I have a personal story from inside facebook to share. and when I shared this story on my facebook my personal facebook was suspended too. 5 years ago Facebook recruiter reached out to me and invited me to the W hotel in Chicago. I was very excited -not for the job- but for the opportunity to meet with senior Facebook managers and tell them about an evil thing Facebook does. Here is the background story: I am Kurdish…
It is surprising to me how easy Internet companies are bullied into censorship. Services should start carrying the "Banned in Turkey" flag as a badge of honor. "Banned in China" is required nowadays if you want to be taken seriously anyway. For individuals, "Banned from Facebook" has a similar note. For a time now, Kurdish interests have been prosecuted by Facebook. And not just in Turkey.
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By that logic does every FB app that stores collected data on non-FB servers represent a breach? The crucial point here is that the users authorized the app to collect the data. Facebook has an extremely extensive authorization system for you to grant apps access to your data. Did Kogan use this system differently than every other FB app? What technical measures did he need to circumvent in order to get access to the…
> The crucial point here is that the users authorized the app to collect the data A quarter of a million people authorized the app to collect their data. It then gained access to fifty million peoples' data. Those extra data were accessed without proper authorization. All of the data were then used in an unauthorized manner. > What technical measures did he need to circumvent in order to get access to the data that y…