"What the f* was facebook thinking" https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/what-the-f-was-facebook-th...
They gave out users' unique global ID with the export API so it was trivial to merge PII from multiple sources. They didn't have to be hacked, they left the door open. Facebook was full of dumb 'which x-movie-character are you' because every one of those grabbed a few more profiles and at one point, private inbox messages, all to be merged back into somebody's data trove.
I'm guessing your response will be that it wasn't Facebook's fault.
I would also note that there aren't even 10 billion people living on earth, so it sounds like you're just making stuff up.
A distinction without a difference. If Facebook's security policy permits PII to be moved into insecure systems then Facebook itself is insecure.
Here's another:
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-uploaded-1-5-millio...
Yeah. 1.5 million, who cares right? No big deal. This is clearly a pattern, not an isolated incident.
Hundreds of millions of exposed users is not "pretty good", it's objectively horrible.
> this is a privacy issue
It is a privacy issue but primarily a security issue since the scandal is that the data was unintentionally leaked, not that it was shared with a 3rd party.
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Upton Sinclair