Re:Australia sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica
by shkkmo on Monday March 09, 2020 @04:03PM
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> FB had APIs, that everyone in the entire world knew about. There maybe a little 'too open' for some, but nobody was screaming fraud. It seemed reasonable to most.
Let's flip this around then: Australia’s Privacy Act 1988 lays out clear rules and penalties. Facebook had a responsibility to learn and follow these rules if they wanted to do business in Australia.
> In this case, users absolutely had to provide CA with the authority to access certain data, in the same way, they would have for any other app.
That is not true, and this is clearly explained by the OIAC statement referenced in the article: 'Most of those individuals did not install the “This is Your Digital Life” App; their Facebook friends did. Unless those individuals undertook a complex process of modifying their settings on Facebook, their personal information was disclosed by Facebook to the “This is Your Digital Life” App by default.'
Let's flip this around then: Australia’s Privacy Act 1988 lays out clear rules and penalties. Facebook had a responsibility to learn and follow these rules if they wanted to do business in Australia.
> In this case, users absolutely had to provide CA with the authority to access certain data, in the same way, they would have for any other app.
That is not true, and this is clearly explained by the OIAC statement referenced in the article: 'Most of those individuals did not install the “This is Your Digital Life” App; their Facebook friends did. Unless those individuals undertook a complex process of modifying their settings on Facebook, their personal information was disclosed by Facebook to the “This is Your Digital Life” App by default.'