Facebook received legal assurances that Cambridge Analytica had deleted the improperly obtained information.
And Facebook hasn’t yet initiated a massive Cambridge Analytica-killing lawsuit why, exactly?
And then there’s this…,
Facebook Inc. scans the links and images that people send each other on Facebook Messenger, and…
Thereby assuring that the company retains influence with emerging political talent.
Who has time to conduct audits… we’re too busy counting our profits.
Instead they put people on-site to make sure they could make the best use of the mountains of data they had.
I just read this morning about their recent attempt to collaborate with big hospitals. The idea, I think, was to “anonymize” patient data - taking out e.g. names - but leave enough identifying information to allow facebook to hash the info with their existing user profiles. Hospitals wouldn’t technically be violating HIPPA, but facebook would still be able to match patent data to their existing data sets and flag ones that didn’t seem to have nearby family, actively supporting community, and so on, so they could be targeted for nurse visits of other follow up upon discharge.
Nice idea, but there’s already a low-tech procedure for that - ask the fucking patient.
Apparently, in the initial discussions about this proposed end-run around HIPPA, patient privacy concerns didn’t even come up.