> The Cambridge Analytica scandal has nothing to do with Facebook's business model and Facebook did not gain anything from this.
Hilarious.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal is in regards to a nefarious 3rd party using Facebook's pipes in a way that violated Facebook's policy. There are emails to show that Facebook knew about this, and did not act to remove CA's access to said pipes (no, [1] there are literally emails about this that were found during discovery).
You even mentioned it
> To the best of my knowledge CA abused a free feature (API access) designed for legitimate usage to collect user data for nefarious purposes
Yes. They abused it. They abused it and were allowed to continue abusing it because Facebook's business model is data, not user privacy. You're blaming CA for what FB quite literally (and I mean quite literally) allowed them to do, told them to stop doing, then turned a blind eye when CA _continued_ to do it.
Again. Not my opinion. It's a matter of factual record.
Thanks for the links. After having read the entire thread (it’s not long), a few things stand out:
1) This was not treated as a high pri issue at all until the story broke out in the media (compare the frequency of messages before and after)
2) There was a mad scramble to understand where exactly CA got their data from. It was far from obvious and there was no access to close as CA didn’t even have any app or a relationship with FB.
Hilarious.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal is in regards to a nefarious 3rd party using Facebook's pipes in a way that violated Facebook's policy. There are emails to show that Facebook knew about this, and did not act to remove CA's access to said pipes (no, [1] there are literally emails about this that were found during discovery).
You even mentioned it
> To the best of my knowledge CA abused a free feature (API access) designed for legitimate usage to collect user data for nefarious purposes
Yes. They abused it. They abused it and were allowed to continue abusing it because Facebook's business model is data, not user privacy. You're blaming CA for what FB quite literally (and I mean quite literally) allowed them to do, told them to stop doing, then turned a blind eye when CA _continued_ to do it.
Again. Not my opinion. It's a matter of factual record.
Links - https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-emails-show-workers... - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/newly-released-mes...
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