Facebook suspends controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica

Australian privacy commissioner opens Facebook investigation

https://www.zdnet.com/article/australian-privacy-commissioner-opens-facebook-investigation/

 

The new Facebook security fixes have broken Tinder

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-new-facebook-security-fixes-have-broken-tinder-2018-4

 

The smokescreening about all the abuse of the api (terrible though it is), is attempting to mask the fact that FB should never have been collecting much of this info in the first place. For example, the collection of call/sms data on android is one of the most egregious, and clearly directly affects those who do not have a FB account yet would have been fingered by that data - obviously the opposite of consent. Face recognition & tagging is another clear lack-of-consent issue.

I do hope that the GDPR will take a very broad view of this so that FB and their brethren cannot use collateral information on people who have no means of opting in and who specifically do not consent.

This is also an object lesson in why the "collect-it-all, store-it-all" mentality in LE is so dangerous, especially when it's so widely shared - the data will get stolen, sold, lost. And no redress for the victims, this is a classic Taleb case of people taking the profit but not the risk, at other people's expense.

 

"Zuckerberg: Facebook will apply EU data privacy standards globally..."

https://www.politico.eu/article/zuckerberg-facebook-eu-data-will-apply-privacy-standards-globally/

 

Facebook users should expect to pay for privacy, Sandberg says

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/0...-expect-to-pay-for-privacy-sandberg-says.html

 

I understand that. "There is no such thing as a free lunch".

 

I wonder if Sandberg expects NON FB users to pay for privacy - for all the stuff that FB users have welched on their contacts without consent, and that FB has gleefully misappropriated and monetised?

Roll on GDPR.

 

Sanberg can go do what is not anatomically possible with herself. These jerks suck.
And actually WRT TANSTAFFL - Facebarf should be paying US for use of OUR data.

But I never see their GARBAGE ads anyway - thanks to FB Purity. Nor ALL the other crap they try to jam down my throat.

 

Trying to get back privacy that was lost on FB is like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted (never to be found again). When are people going to wake up that these giant corporations never did have any scruples about your private life.

But NO ONE should be served up toxic food much less have to pay for it. FB started as an appeal to the selfish me generation so silliness is what it was founded on and if people continue to feed their soul on its garbage they'll keep spitting out trash. One definition of insanity is to accept reversals such as paying someone to spy on you. You keep petting the snake eventually it'll bite you. FB didn't exactly broadcast their true colors at the start. It's always a process and part of that is to get people so utterly hooked that the possibility of being in denial is a concept lost. Technology and the gadgets its produced, has been, is and will continue to be the bait people will continue to swallow and that's why this mess will keep spiraling out of control.

As bad as FB is Google is many times worse.

 

Facebook built an "Anonymous Login" tool that was specifically created so that users could
log into third-party services without making all of their data available to developers.

Facebook quietly killed the project, allegedly due to lack of interest from developers.
This was first announced back in 2014 billed as part of new effort to put " people first."
Facebook officially killed the feature in August 2015.

NOTE: Facebook would still know which apps you use anonymously.

https://mashable.com/2018/03/19/what-happened-to-facebook-anonymous-login/

 

Don’t just blame Facebook for taking your data – most online publishers are at it too

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/08/dont-blame-facebook-taking-data-most-pubishers

 

I agree that basic ethics or law should make them delete all data about people who do not use Facebook.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...rg-also-got-most-contributions-fac/486313002/

Facebook Donated To 46 of 55 Members On Committee That Will Question Zuckerberg

 

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/7/1...-firm-aggregateiq-cambridge-analytica-privacy

 

Interesting that in his first prep meeting he did not meet with the Republican Chair of the committee that will start the grilling...

"Zuckerberg will be on Capitol Hill meeting with lawmakers Monday, including Senator Bill Nelson of Florida, the top Democrat on the Senate Commerce committee. Nelson’s office said in a statement the meeting will be at noon -- one day before Zuckerberg is scheduled to testify before the Commerce panel."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...acebook-s-zuckerberg-can-expect-from-congress

This should be good. Hope it is carried by CSPAN 2 or some body. Popcorn and soft drinks are ready.

 

Hey, you prep with your friends!

 

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Hearing on Data Privacy and Protection

Tuesday. 4/10/18 2:15 PM EDT

https://www.c-span.org/video/?443543-1/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-testifies-data-protection

 

Yikes. CPAN 3 - I don't even know what that is - not on my cable. Will have to watch on Net.