Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire

Re:Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire by jayess on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @08:19PM (#16643998)

So the exploitation of massive amounts of personal data from unwilling participants is ok as long as you agree with the person doing it?

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Re:Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire by rdtsc on Thursday March 22, 2018 @12:29AM (#16645748)

From the words of the person in charge of this:

https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568208886484997

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They [Facebook] were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.

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You just have to be on the right "side" that's all.

I wonder if anyone went back and ensure they deleted all the data they harvested, then went back and verified that they didn't lie. And in case they didn't, wonder what the media response would be and how many articles would be written about it.

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Re:Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire by MaysonL on Saturday March 24, 2018 @03:00AM (#16665263)

Of course, the same person tweeted immediately after that, replying to the tweet you quote:

"I am also 100% positive that Facebook activity recruits and staffs people that are on the other side."

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Re:Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire by Khaine on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @11:08PM (#16645353)

Sadly, that seems to be the case.

Cambridge Analytica did far worse than Obama's team. They lied about the purpose of the app to steal social graph data. But fundamentally, the abuse of social graph information is the same. They may have gone to different ends (getting people to vote for obama, vs getting people to not vote for clinton), but they are fundamentally the same types of activity.

You can't tell it was appropriate for Obama's social media team to steal the social graph and use that to target people (who did not approve their information being obtained).

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