Re:Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally
by ceejayoz on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @11:01AM
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> I’m sorry: what problem do you think Facebook is ignoring? I have heard interesting arguments elsewhere — but not on the company ignoring anything.
I think they've been willfully ignoring the likelihood that this sort of data exfiltration has been happening on a very widespread level for years. Many of those 800,000 "quiz" apps are likely designed for this purpose, and their proliferation should've set off warning bells inside Facebook - it did outside.
Zuckerberg's being out there acting like this was all an unforeseeable, shocking, limited-scope issue is disturbing to me.
All I’ve heard in this thread is people judging the company in hindsight, and based on a rather convoluted speculation (that happen to be false: Cambridge Analytica used credit card data and voter records, not Facebook data, to assess psychological profile).
Facebook has made difficult decisions with partial information that ended up proving to be suboptimal — but I don’t see when they have ignored either symptoms or criticism.