Re:Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data
by tsimionescu on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @04:36PM
(#26082661)
You're assuming a lot of information.
B shared some data with Facebook. That data has somehow leaked to CA, which B never agreed to. Without doing any investigation of their own, B can pretty easily accuse FB of losing their data.
FB can defend itself by saying B shared their data with A, and it is A who misplaced it.
Or, it could be ruled that A could not be expected to understand that they are sharing non-public data about B with a 3rd party, so the ball could be back in FB's court. Perhaps FB should not have offered this option to A at all.
Or perhaps that was well withing FB's and A's rights, and the problem instead is that A never agreed to share this data with CA, they only shared it with Dr Kogan.
In this case again, it could be Dr Kogan alone who is at fault for sharing the data improperly, or it may also be FB's fault for not vetting app developers enough before giving them access to user's data.
Of course, there could also be many more nuanced decisions as well. But for B, the chain can only really start with suing FB - the only entity that B shared their data directly with. B can't know whether it got to CA through A or through D or E, or whether FB was hacked and the information was stolen from them etc., and they have no right to demand this information from FB outside of a lawsuit.
B shared some data with Facebook. That data has somehow leaked to CA, which B never agreed to. Without doing any investigation of their own, B can pretty easily accuse FB of losing their data.
FB can defend itself by saying B shared their data with A, and it is A who misplaced it.
Or, it could be ruled that A could not be expected to understand that they are sharing non-public data about B with a 3rd party, so the ball could be back in FB's court. Perhaps FB should not have offered this option to A at all.
Or perhaps that was well withing FB's and A's rights, and the problem instead is that A never agreed to share this data with CA, they only shared it with Dr Kogan.
In this case again, it could be Dr Kogan alone who is at fault for sharing the data improperly, or it may also be FB's fault for not vetting app developers enough before giving them access to user's data.
Of course, there could also be many more nuanced decisions as well. But for B, the chain can only really start with suing FB - the only entity that B shared their data directly with. B can't know whether it got to CA through A or through D or E, or whether FB was hacked and the information was stolen from them etc., and they have no right to demand this information from FB outside of a lawsuit.