Facebook suspends controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica

What is amazing about the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica story

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jodywe...-about-the-facebook-cambridge-analytica-story

 

They said the same a year ago, but I noticed privacy setting were still crappy as hell. Another thing I noticed is that for some reason you can't check login history anymore (both on Firefox and Vivaldi) can you guys verify this?

Exactly, nothing new but glad they got busted. Here is some related news:

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/26/opinions/data-company-spying-opinion-schneier/index.html

 

Best news for Ages At last more & more people finding what FB & ALL the others, are Really ALL about, not just adverts etc

 

Facebook Pulling "Partner Categories" Ad Targeting Product to Increase Privacy
March 29, 2018
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...ies-ad-targeting-product-to-increase-privacy/

 

Reflecting on all this, my feeling is that a FB user ought not to expect any substantial improvement from what is effectively smokescreening. FB claim they will do better in future, honest, there is talk of regulation, and hopium even hopes that the GDPR will help. My assessment is that it will not significantly, the time to have controlled the unprincipled land-grab is way past and the company and the politicians will do nothing substantive, because it's now in the "too big to fail" or "too powerful to fail" category.

Certainly the focus on CA or other brokers, and the effect on political process - important though it is - is deflecting attention from the fact that FB have outrageously grabbed the territory. Much of which was "commons" and was certainly not with my consent.

The only remedy for the product is to minimise exposure, and find alternative ways of online or offline congregation & communication - necessary for other reasons too (e.g. recent legislation).

 

I do hope to see Zuck sitting before Congressional hearings. Probably 75 % will come out against him. Maybe more. Much of that will be grandstanding for the cameras - this is after all an election year. But likely 50 % plus will really grill him.

 

Zuck won't be less than a billionaire even in the wildest of extremes. Almost surely likely his worth will remain in the tens of billions.

And his freedom being taken away or even threatened will never happen.

So this is all BS. Just like all the other bring the billionaire to justice crusades. The only thing different about Zuck is you might see him take a bit of ownership of the problems FB has been complicate in. Also he might exhibit a bit of shame for what he's done. Which is more than 99% of other billionaires caught with their **** in the wringer.

The 3letters & foreign spooks will still be able to twist reality through FB.

And the FB user defection rate will be less than 1%.

Happy now? Great use of time. Twaddles all who think different.

 

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/facebook_and_ca.html

 

Use Paypal? I do and I did NOT ever remember them showing me this:

https://www.paypal.com/ie/webapps/mpp/ua/third-parties-list

Will be interesting to see if the US does anything similar to the EU General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. Election year and all that, but they are sloooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww to act.

 

Facebook Sees New Backlash For Leaked Memo Promoting Growth Over Safety

https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetw...-for-leaked-memo-promoting-growth-over-safety

 

I do hope this info gains traction! Yikes.

 

Cambridge Analytica Parent Worked For Ministry Of Defence

https://www.silicon.co.uk/workspace/cambridge-analytica-parent-ministry-of-defence-230863

 

One does not simply delete Facebook

https://blog.adguard.com/en/one-does-not-simply-delete-facebook

 

After Cambridge Analytica scandal Facebook announces Election security Improvements

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/70956/social-networks/facebook-election-improvements.html

 

Does anyone have a FB account? I would like to know if you can still check login history, seems like this feature has been removed. Up in till a few months ago, you could see it, but now you can only see which device is currently logged in. So there's definitely something up, why would they remove this? This feature works just fine in Gmail and Yahoo Mail.

http://aponu.org/see-facebook-login-history-location/

 

"Mark Zuckerberg will testify before a U.S. House committee on April 11

The Facebook CEO has accepted an invitation to testify before lawmakers from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce..."

https://www.recode.net/2018/4/4/17196716/mark-zuckerberg-testimony-congress

 

"Facebook says data leak hits 87 million users [not 50 million],widening privacy scandal

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Wednesday that the personal information of up to 87 million users may have been improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, up from a previous news media estimate of more than 50 million..."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/face...-8577-780d7df5b520&.tsrc=notification-brknews

 

"Facebook said personal data of most users has been collected, shared with outsiders

Facebook said Wednesday that most of its 2 billion users likely have had their personal information scraped by outsiders without the users' explicit permission, dramatically raising the stakes in a privacy controversy that has dogged the company for weeks, spurred investigations in the United States and Europe, and sent the company's stock price tumbling..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...shared-with-outsiders/?utm_term=.68a0d05a03ce

 

"Facebook: ‘Malicious actors’ used its tools to discover identities and collect data on a massive global scale

Facebook said Wednesday that “malicious actors” took advantage of search tools on its platform, making it possible for them to discover the identities and collect information on most of its 2 billion users worldwide..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...shared-with-outsiders/?utm_term=.eefcf1f12666

 

"Facebook Scans the Photos and Links You Send on Messenger

Facebook Inc. scans the links and images that people send each other on Facebook Messenger, and reads chats when they’re flagged to moderators, making sure the content abides by the company’s rules. If it doesn’t, it gets blocked or taken down..."

[Sounds like Microsoft's new "Privacy" Policy https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thr...language-monitor-your-private-account.402101/]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...hat-you-send-to-other-people-on-messenger-app

What a <snip>-show all of this in this thread is turning out to be!

 

Yeah, I wonder how many skeletons they still have in a closet.