Re:Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of...
by smsm42 on Monday April 09, 2018 @04:12PM
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> That goes for [...] data privacy. We didn’t take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake.
Judging from [1], this wasn't any "mistake":
They came to office in the days following election recruiting & 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.
This was a deliberate policy of allowing people "on their side" to access and use these data. Now, when it turned out people on the "other side" can do it too, it became a "big mistake" suddenly.
Judging from [1], this wasn't any "mistake":
They came to office in the days following election recruiting & 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.
This was a deliberate policy of allowing people "on their side" to access and use these data. Now, when it turned out people on the "other side" can do it too, it became a "big mistake" suddenly.
[1] https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568208886484997