Facebook is certainly having some bad press lately like this article Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach and things seem to be getting worse at present.
March 20th, 2018 By Paul Lewis
Sandy Parakilas says numerous companies deployed these techniques – likely affecting hundreds of millions of users – and that Facebook looked the other way
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users are likely to have had their private information harvested by companies that exploited the same terms as the firm that collected data and passed it on to Cambridge Analytica, according to a new whistleblower.
Sandy Parakilas, the platform operations manager at Facebook responsible for policing data breaches by third-party software developers between 2011 and 2012, told the Guardian he warned senior executives at the company that its lax approach to data protection risked a major breach.
Full Article.
'Utterly horrifying': ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine
Wow!
That's a very good article you've found, Jasper, that opens up the issue, showing just how deep this problem goes, and how in the end it goes back to the attitude of the executives who care more for aggrandising their company than caring for the best interests of their users.
That's a very good article you've found, Jasper, that opens up the issue, showing just how deep this problem goes, and how in the end it goes back to the attitude of the executives who care more for aggrandising their company than caring for the best interests of their users.
I worked at Facebook. I know how Cambridge Analytica could have happened.
"Facebook will argue that things have changed since 2012 and that the company has much better processes in place now ... Instead, it appears Facebook used the same playbook that I saw in 2012. It took the developer’s word rather than conducting an audit, and it ignored press reports about Cambridge Analytica using Facebook data in violation of its terms during the election. It looks like they took no further action until Friday, when whistleblowers and news stories forced them to finally suspend Cambridge Analytica and Kogan from the platform."
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