Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over Disinformation

Post by jbooth » Tue, Mar 20, 2018, 1:59 AM UTC

daodedickinson wrote: post #196

mandeepj wrote: post #118

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Facebook had enough time to cleanup this mess with Cambridge Analytica (CA). The news about how CA exploited their platform was out just after 2016 election results. If FB was even little bit serious about it they could have done at that time what they are doing now

It's not an "exploit". This stuff was freely given to Obama back in 2012. My best friend was a canvasser and before going into each house, the iPad they used told canvassers what to talk about and not to talk about. It knew who was pro-life so you wouldn't bring up abortion. It knows who's pregnant and who's recently had an abortion (you can get this through knowing what purchases someone has made and not made). Ther…

Post by s2g » Tue, Mar 20, 2018, 2:01 AM UTC

jstalin wrote: post #61

daodedickinson wrote: post #52

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Exactly, and sites like Reddit make money on the same sort of thing. It wasn't controversial when Facebook and Google became arms of the Obama and then Clinton campaigns, but now more people are turning on Facebook after learning that their info was sold to the Trump campaign and companies and so on through companies like CA.

Who remembers how the Obama campaign's social media analytics and strategy were breathlessly praised ?

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 20, 2018, 2:08 AM UTC

jstalin wrote: post #61

daodedickinson wrote: post #52

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Exactly, and sites like Reddit make money on the same sort of thing. It wasn't controversial when Facebook and Google became arms of the Obama and then Clinton campaigns, but now more people are turning on Facebook after learning that their info was sold to the Trump campaign and companies and so on through companies like CA.

Who remembers how the Obama campaign's social media analytics and strategy were breathlessly praised ?

Post by throwawaymanbot » Tue, Mar 20, 2018, 2:12 AM UTC

Post by kerng » Tue, Mar 20, 2018, 2:18 AM UTC

chatmasta wrote: post #203

karmelapple wrote: post #89

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How would you define the term breach? Is it fair to use the term breach from the perspective of the user whose data has been acquired? Or is breach only in reference to what the company that collected the data intended to do with it? There’s also seemingly two types of breaches at play: 1. The idea of a security breach, where a company gets “hacked” 2. The idea of a breach of trust, where people had given a company d…

This is the difficult question at the heart of the matter. Certainly I am accustomed to hearing "breach" in the context of a "security breach," in which a third party accesses data without authorization by circumventing technical measures restricting such access. In this case, there was no such security breach. The Facebook API worked as designed, and returned all data according to spec, TOS, and API documentation. T…