Re:Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private phot...
by r00fus on Friday December 14, 2018 @01:49PM
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It will happen if FB have to suffer financial consequences. GDPR will help, but we need companies to understand that personal data is not an asset, they are also liabilities.
Re:Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private phot...
by LinuxBender on Friday December 14, 2018 @02:13PM
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You are probably right. I would be curious to see a review from a lawyer on the AUP that users agree to. Some things can not be waived in certain jurisdictions. Otherwise people may have given permission and ownership of some of their data to FB to do with as they please.
Re:Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private phot...
by eitland on Friday December 14, 2018 @01:46PM
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> I can imagine GDPR being useful in the EU for corporate FB accounts. Wasn't FB working on a work-specific version of their site? If so, corporate legal teams would get involved in leaks, I would imagine.
I can imagine GDPR working very well for consumers as well, and it seems we are up for some real legal entertainment in the next few months/years :-)
Edit: It also wouldn't surprise me if it gets worse before it gets better. If I was a publisher right now I'd seriously consider blocking access from EU countries. (But that would of course be an invitation for a small, agile publisher who'd succeed either with a micropayments based approach or a context based ads approach.)
That said, the same changes won't likely occur with sites like FB unless it can be proven that the data leaked lead to loss of life or physical harm. They create incentive's for people to happily be the product. How do we prove that damage has occurred to the product? Have any forums popped up where people share stories of harm to their family as a result of data leaked from FB?
I can imagine GDPR being useful in the EU for corporate FB accounts. Wasn't FB working on a work-specific version of their site? If so, corporate legal teams would get involved in leaks, I would imagine.