Re:Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation
by weaksauce on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @07:36PM
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> Which were the same permissions that the users of the Kogan app gave. Remember that the issue here revolves around the fact that friends of the users of either app never gave permission for their data to be used. The only difference is that Obama did this to about 4X as many people.
you're still wrong but at this point, with all the evidence showing just how different the situation is, i suspect you want to be for whatever reason.
Re:Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation
by downandout on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @07:40PM
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What exactly am I wrong about?
Re:Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation
by gbhn on Thursday March 22, 2018 @12:26AM
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It's an agency issue. If I use an attributed channel it's like meeting you and saying "hey remember your friend the CS guy? Our company is looking for someone like that. Could you pass the word along?" vs pretending to be chatting with you when all I'm looking for is relevant recruiting leads which I will then use unbeknownst to you.
For hiring this isn't as touchy a subject, but surely there's a qualitative difference in these two interactions. One is based in an above-biard interaction. The other in subterfuge and hidden motives.
Re:Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation
by downandout on Thursday March 22, 2018 @01:09AM
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The end result for the friends, which comprise 99.5% of the victims in both the Obama and Kogan cases, is precisely the same. Nothing was represented to them, their data was just used because someone they were friends with installed the app.
Which were the same permissions that the users of the Kogan app gave. Remember that the issue here revolves around the fact that friends of the users of either app never gave permission for their data to be used. The only difference is that Obama did this to about 4X as many people.
Also, that number 189 million is absolutely likely to be way too high and is likely bullshit
According to their own campaign manager, they obtained the entire US social graph, and Facebook knew about it and allowed it to happen. The 190 million number may actually be low.