Re:Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data
by tsimionescu on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @04:18PM
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Facebook offered an API for sharing your data with a 3rd party vetted by Facebook.
Even if you don't buy that argument, at the very least the people who were FB friends of people who sent shared their lists with Kogan should still be able to sue FB, as they had absolutely no relation with Kogan or his app and still some of their data ended up sold.
Re:Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data
by thaumasiotes on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:10PM
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If there's information that I have, and I turn it over Cambridge Analytica, where's the justification for you to sue Facebook over that?
Can you sue them for this, though? Your contract would need to say "if I personally turn my data over to a third party, that third party will not misuse it". And in the unlikely event that it did say that, misuse of your data by the third party still wouldn't violate the contract, because... the third party is not party to the contract.