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#52Is there a tool to check if my social graph data was scraped by the Obama campaign? Or is this only a scandal when it helps Republicans?
[1] https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568130117459975 [2] http://thehill.com/opinion/technology/379245-whats-genius-fo...
Re: Check if your data was shared with Cambridge analytica FB check tool
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with your premise, but it is a bit different though. The user directly engages with Facebook (off course, having read terms and conditions etc), but not any of the companies that used to get data. This level of indirection is what is causing the outrage here. There is a distinction, although I would give none of them my data.
Yes, that's one consideration, but Facebook also has much more data on you than you gave informed consent for. I guess people just haven't realized yet.
This got me thinking whether all my comments on HN are being used by someone/something to build a profile of me? Maybe I should read the small print...
Re: Check if your data was shared with Cambridge analytica FB check tool
#54Is there a tool to check if my social graph data was scraped by the Obama campaign? Or is this only a scandal when it helps Republicans? [1] https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568130117459975 [2] http://thehill.com/opinion/technology/379245-whats-genius-fo...
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Re: Check if your data was shared with Cambridge analytica FB check tool
#55I find it very hard to imagine that "This is your digital life" was the only source CA used.
It's more logical that they would have had an ongoing effort to keep collecting data.
Re: Check if your data was shared with Cambridge analytica FB check tool
#56Is there a tool to check if my social graph data was scraped by the Obama campaign? Or is this only a scandal when it helps Republicans? [1] https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568130117459975 [2] http://thehill.com/opinion/technology/379245-whats-genius-fo...
There is a subtle difference in that the Obama campaign obtained consent from the friend who volunteered their subgraph to use that data for political purposes, whereas Cambridge Analytica’s academic sources obtained no such consent from anyone. One could argue that the distinction is less meaningful as Obama’s usage was not very well informed consent. But it’s a distinction nonetheless. And beyond that, Facebook has no incentive to expand the scope of their PR problem by advertising this lesser known fact.
As the tweet cites, Facebook was politically biased in a specific enforcement action in the past. That does not itself indicate that there is any political reasoning behind the decision not to release an Obama tool today.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Similarly, some of those that never signed up have got Facebook storing data on them. Facebook knows what I look like, my email, birthdate and that’s just what I know. Would be interesting to see what’s there.
I can understand Facebook knowing what you look like from pictures of you other people upload and your email from others connecting their Gmail address books. How will they know your birth date though? (FYI, they probably know your phone number and who you made phone calls to, when, and the durations for the last 5 years)
Every year someone shares the fact its my birthday on Facebook. Combined with my physical address from peoples contacts I’m pretty sure there must be complete profiles on many non-users.
Slackoverflower, would call duration come the app on Facebook users phones, and knowing who call were to and from?
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
This only applies to the leak of 84 million profiles to Cambridge Analytica. This leak was less than 4% of a much larger leak that's not getting much attention. Why doesn't Facebook alert users if their profile was leaked to "malicious actors" who collected profiles of "most of its 2 billion users worldwide". https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/04/04...
I think the reason this isn't being reported much on is because it wasn't a leak. It sounds like it was just a scrape of data from the site. Scraping websites to collect public information is nothing new. Malicious actors do it all the time, as do non-malicious actors too. Google literally does it. EDIT: I'm all for facebook messed up and we need more guarantees but lets be objective though. The CA issue is an issue,…
No, this wasn't just garden variety web crawling.
Sites can control whether they get crawled or not.
Facebook, for example, stops Google from crawling Facebook profiles.
But Facebook allowed "malicious actors" to access to user profiles for "most of its 2 billion users worldwide".
These 2 billion users didn't choose to expose their personal information to "malicious actors", Facebook did it without their consent.
Re: Check if your data was shared with Cambridge analytica FB check tool
#59What about those of us that actually deleted Facebook after the scandal? How are we supposed to check if our data was shared with CA if Facebook requires you to be logged in to check?
Yeah I am interested, but deleted my account a few weeks ago :(
They should still be able to email people even if they deleted. It's the least they could do.
Re: Check if your data was shared with Cambridge analytica FB check tool
#60Hey Facebook, how about you notify people, not other way around?
Because that doesn't get you back in their app