Zuckerberg summoned to House Of Commons inquiry

Re:Zuckerberg summoned to House Of Commons inquiry by thomasfortes on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:05PM (#16634018)

They should take a lesson from the spotify API, friend listening feeds are out of reach for third party apps.

Since facebook apps request these fields so much, they could implement it as an opt-in/out checkbox "Do you want your data to be accessible by 3rd party apps without your consent through your friends?"

This way, if an app request friends access, they would get data only from the ones that allowed it.

It probably would remove a lot of value that can be extracted from their users, but facebook itself would still have all this data to use internally to target ads and they would limit the amount of data that can be exfiltrated to malicious 3rd parties without the consent of users.

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Re:Zuckerberg summoned to House Of Commons inquiry by azernik on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:02PM (#16634352)

Facebook already made this change; however, they changed these things after the data was fetched and stored.

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Re:Zuckerberg summoned to House Of Commons inquiry by thomasfortes on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @06:58AM (#16636948)

Thanks for the info, I was not aware of that.

Good for them to make this change, bad for them because it was after the data was collected for abuse.

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Re:Zuckerberg summoned to House Of Commons inquiry by azernik on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @03:28PM (#16641479)

I think the takeaway is that these decisions are irreversible; it's very hard to recall data you've shared, so you need to err on the side of sharing less.

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