Flagged as off-topic, not to mention genuinely idiotic, since that’s not at all what Waters is describing.
Edited to add that this was in a response to a post by user davidfarrar posting a YouTube video of an interview of Maxine Waters and claiming something like Google was going to give all of its data to Democrats or some similar wild-assed conspiracy theory and that the Waters interview was “proof.”
There’s a crying need for an alternative to Facebook. A pay model might work, such as WhatsApp, which cost about $1 to join and netted 100s of millions. But Facebook bought them. Time to short Facebook stock?
“Facebook says Cambridge Analytica may have gotten 87 million user files not 50 million.”
Watch how quickly the Senate GOPers try to use the hearing to establish that “Obama’s campaign did the same thing as Cambridge Analytica and nobody cared”.
It is, of course, not even remotely true, but that’s their propaganda and they’re sticking to it.
Don’t get your hopes up about this being anything other than another opportunity for the GOPers to try to bring down their opposition.
Hard to keep up, but it looks like some bad actors got all of Facebook, about 2 billion users.
Wow, I wonder how Mark handles that one? The only way it gets worse is if Facebook secretly has everyones information.
I’m hoping that Dem. staff prepping for this meeting are reading international news: (This about Duerte- Phillipines). Facebook faced criticism for sending out teams to train politicians around the world, including Duterte, on how to use the platform as a campaign tool.
The MSNBC reported that in January 2016, Facebook “flew in three employees who spent a week holding training session with candidates that include Duterte.”
I saw a Twitter post in passing which implied that FB users may be able to find out if they were among the 87 million users whose data was handed over to Cambridge Analytica. I’d be interested in that. I’m pretty certain C.A. has my data as I was targeted with some pro-Trump ads (probably because I have some FB friends who were Trumpers).
As for FB’s potential liability here, one would have to look at 4 areas: (1) terms of use/privacy policy to users; (2) actual real-time knowledge of misuse by Alexandr Kogan and his company, GSR + a failure to do anything about it; (3) assess whether the acts or omissions by FB board members and officers (e.g., Peter Thiel) constituted a violation of corporate fiduciary duties; (4) if FB was a data controller within the meaning of the EU Data Privacy law (soon to be replaced by the GDPR) then the failure to monitor and put in safeguards with respect to that data may be a violation (UK data privacy laws may also be implicated here). In addition, I wonder if a common law concept of a duty of care may apply here.
FB does have plausible deniability defenses, and they can argue that Kogan/GSR + Cambridge Analytica violated the FB developer terms of use so they are an aggrieved party, but I think it’s worth pursuing litigation against FB to see how the courts on both sides of the Atlantic assess liability and allocate risk. Is FB a type of carrier? Do they have duties to customers? Or, is it a buyer beware model when you pass through the gates of the Internet?