Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook hearing was a sham

Re:Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook hearing was a sham by nothrabannosir on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @08:42AM (#16810489)

> What is the ask here? A ZIP with all your information? A JSON file with your friendship graph? How would that be readable to most people? I doubt that Facebook's data structures are so portable that they could just be placed into another social network?

Making scraping of your personal data a statutory right, including the building and distributing of tools for it.

No need to force FB to publish anything, just prevent them from blocking anyone who uses a tool to scrape their own data through the regular UI. This should draw the boundaries of responsibility in the right place.

This would allow e.g. a “messaging” bridge which automatically interfaces with the messages part of the site, and bridges it to any tool (or API) you want. At least per user per account. This would force de facto federation without putting a burden on FB.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook hearing was a sham by nv-vn on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @10:00AM (#16811117)

But then this brings us back to square 1, "tools" can just scrape user messages/content without authorization and then use that to collect data on those users. If the whole point is to solve the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, this is just going to make the situation 10x worse.

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