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There's a link you can go to when you're logged in to Facebook and it tells you. It came back that none of my FB friends had used it for me.
I wonder where this link can be found?
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My understanding is that the difference is that the Meta-Cambridge Analytica situation wasn't a 'hack' data breach, it was Facebook sharing data in breach of existing Australian privacy laws. ie. Meta is at fault, as opposed to a criminal intruder.
It was an API. After years of getting shit for not opening their social graph. To this day I don't understand how the world decided that was a big deal.
Kinda weird. We (Australia) have a new major data breach every month. Seems strange to single out Meta, what about Optus, St Vincent’s, Dymocks, the AFP (!), the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (hardly surpising, with their 1990s website), Pizza Hut, the Royal Women’s Hospital, and about 100 (not hyperbole) others?
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My understanding is that the difference is that the Meta-Cambridge Analytica situation wasn't a 'hack' data breach, it was Facebook sharing data in breach of existing Australian privacy laws. ie. Meta is at fault, as opposed to a criminal intruder.
It was an API. After years of getting shit for not opening their social graph. To this day I don't understand how the world decided that was a big deal.
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It was an API. After years of getting shit for not opening their social graph. To this day I don't understand how the world decided that was a big deal.
Because it helped influence elections
Are campaigns influencing elections when they use credit card purchasing data and so on that they buy? Why isn't that the same scandal?
It’s crazy to me that the CA debacle is still reverberating as unsettled this many years later. For a breach that’s been known for a decade to just now coming to a settlement is insane. Delay delay delay tactics should get push back from judges.
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It was an API. After years of getting shit for not opening their social graph. To this day I don't understand how the world decided that was a big deal.
I don't recall any complaints about facebook not posting everyones private information publicly or selling it to the lowest and highest bidder.
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This is how you know the (old) media mongrels have bought out the australian gov't. I am vehemently against it, but no matter which party you choose to vote for, the result has been the same.
the greens could always use more votes
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>[...]personal information of some Australian Facebook users was disclosed to the This is Your Digital Life app in breach of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). The information was exposed to the risk of disclosure to Cambridge Analytica and other third parties, and risked being used for political profiling purposes. [...] The relevant law had been in force for two decades before facebook ever became relevant.
I think this is the first actual settlement in the 20 years those rules have been on the books?
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I think this is the first actual settlement in the 20 years those rules have been on the books?
Here's a few more: https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-assessments-and-deci...
It seems they are referring to this as a "landmark" ruling because it's the first one with a "payout" condition.