Both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Threatened to Sue Journalists

Re:Both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Threatened to Sue J... by darawk on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @03:57PM (#16631972)

> The thing that seems really wrong here is that you weren't just granting access to your own information, but all of your friends as well, who had little say in the matter beyond their original grants of permission to Facebook.

Except that those users had granted that permission to the people who then granted it to CA. So, transitively (which is the only way to think about permissions), they had granted it to CA.

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Re:Both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Threatened to Sue J... by eftychis on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @05:07PM (#16632667)

Not really. You granted permission for your friends to access the information. You did not give your friends permission to grant permission in accessing your information or share it directly.

Now Facebook may make a different statement etc and the rules of service, privacy can allow for this. But it is not a property that is transitive in general. And it is bad publicity. (I hope.)

I can be told a secret, I do not necessarily have the permission to share, for instance, what happened in the bachelor party last Saturday right?

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