Settlement for Australian users impacted by Cambridge Analytica incident
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#2> Individuals should be aware that scammers may use this media release to falsely claim to help them get payments. If you receive a call…
I can just imagine the heavy sigh that accompanied the decision to put this at the end of the media release.
Re: Settlement for Australian users impacted by Cambridge Analytica incident
#350 million is chump change for Facebook. In a fair world, we would have competition against facebook and there would be choices for consumers. In this real world we are stuck with the bottom feeders like facebook which just works with impunity.
Not only did facebook lose all the data, it disabled customer support chat in Australia for all services including advertising.
Our company fb account (for travelers) was disabled due to "Suspicious activity" and then permanently deleted. But they conveniently left the ad account on which we can neither login nor disable. If we do a charge back, Facebook will instaban the instagram account as well and in process we could lose our 16 year account.
There is a huge group of such people here https://www.reddit.com/r/facebookdisabledme/
Both reddit and facebook belong to trash of history (for different reasons)
Re: Settlement for Australian users impacted by Cambridge Analytica incident
#450 million is chump change for Facebook. In a fair world, we would have competition against facebook and there would be choices for consumers. In this real world we are stuck with the bottom feeders like facebook which just works with impunity. Not only did facebook lose all the data, it disabled customer support chat in Australia for all services including advertising. Our company fb account (for travelers) was disa…
I have an account like that that simply exists but can never interact. Support requests (even when I figured out how to make them) do nothing. They just say "It will be fixed within the week"
Re: Settlement for Australian users impacted by Cambridge Analytica incident
#5"Justice"
Re: Settlement for Australian users impacted by Cambridge Analytica incident
#650 million is chump change for Facebook. In a fair world, we would have competition against facebook and there would be choices for consumers. In this real world we are stuck with the bottom feeders like facebook which just works with impunity. Not only did facebook lose all the data, it disabled customer support chat in Australia for all services including advertising. Our company fb account (for travelers) was disa…
Not in your case as a business but for majority of people being banned on facebook and other social media could be a blessing in disguise.
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#7Kinda 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?
Re: Settlement for Australian users impacted by Cambridge Analytica incident
#850 million is chump change for Facebook. In a fair world, we would have competition against facebook and there would be choices for consumers. In this real world we are stuck with the bottom feeders like facebook which just works with impunity. Not only did facebook lose all the data, it disabled customer support chat in Australia for all services including advertising. Our company fb account (for travelers) was disa…
In fairness facebook has many competitors and it's possible to create a clone for a small sum. That doesn't include the scaling components which are world class. But a profile some photos and videos has been done successfully by vk for example.
How to you get everyone to signup? This is how facebook did it. Start in top universities and only allow people from there to sign up. Repeat at other universities. Open it up to all .edus. Get press coverage about this site many are talking about but only college kids can use. Open it up to everyone but setup cities regions where content is shared. Introduce a tool that reads your hotmail and emails everyone to join. Add games. Groups. Kill games. Promote flame bait. Replace content with ads.
The facebook rollout was magical and hard to replicate. Having people within the same colleges on a public/private network created communities. Places where parents/relatives/past school mates wouldn't see that content. Lost some magic with cities but it still created communities. Killing games started the decline. Everyone you know from your grandparents to your little sister joining killed the original feel. Politics killed conversations.
Facebook had many paths to choose and they ended up here. If you started a similiar journey you could make different choices and end up somewhere else.
Re: Settlement for Australian users impacted by Cambridge Analytica incident
#9How are we supposed to know if someone in our network used the 'This is Your Digital Life app'?
I feel like there is so much more behind this. Personally, I feel like I've been secretly blacklisted for 5 years straight. Even LLMs are telling me that it seems like I've been blacklisted and that it appears like there is 'an element of coordination' when I describe some of the bizarre work experiences that I've had in the tech (esp. crypto) industry.
I can't even talk about some of my experiences (at least not the full extent) because they are too weird and the motives make no sense.
Re: Settlement for Australian users impacted by Cambridge Analytica incident
#10Kinda 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?
We (Australia) have no enforceable privacy legislation. The choice to single out Meta is probably political, though could also be about scale, and being a huge foreign company with deep pockets.