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Amazing filming from an Eagle!
In article , PeterN
wrote: FB, sold similar personal information to an organization with a political agenda, as it does to organizations with purely commercial interests. facebook doesn't sell user information itself. what they sell is ad placement based on that information. there is a difference. the information facebook has is *extremely* valuable and not something they're about to sell to anyone. that said, much of that information is public and easily obtained by anyone. this is particularly true if the user consents to share their information with an app they chose to run or whom they choose to like or follow. and it ain't just facebook. plenty of companies track user data and sell ads based on it, with a prime example being store loyalty cards. do you want to save 10% ? just let us track your purchases. the ads you see on the back of the receipt are targeted based on the stuff you bought, and since they have your name/address, they can sell that to interested parties. credit bureaus have a ****load of very personal data and will happily sell any or all of it, or in the case of equifax, let anyone access it simply by using admin/admin to log in (really). what's worse, is that equifax paid off the right people and got away with it. The political organization, Cambridge Analytica, misused the information, and lied to FB. FB did not exercise due diligence against such misuse. cambridge analytica used an existing api to obtain user data, which users consented to provide. the problem is that users don't realize what it is they're consenting to nor what can be done with the data once it's shared. and again, it's not just facebook. sign up for that store loyalty card and the store can (and does) sell your purchase habits. there's nothing facebook or anyone else can do about it once information is out of their control and whether it was misused is subjective. facebook has made some changes to what apps can access, but if users consent to share data with an app, there's nothing anyone can do. a bigger problem is that people who *aren't* on facebook have internal facebook profiles. zuckerberg also knowingly lied to congress, except that they were too stupid to realize it. he was very well coached. |
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