Mark Zuckerberg apologises for Facebook's 'mistakes' over Cambridge Analytica
Source: The Guardian
Mark Zuckerberg apologises for Facebook's 'mistakes' over Cambridge Analytica
Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco
Thu 22 Mar 2018 06.53 GMT
Facebook is changing the way it shares data with third-party applications, Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday in his first public statement since the Observer reported that the personal data of about 50 million Americans had been harvested and improperly shared with a political consultancy.
The Facebook CEO broke his five-day silence on the scandal that has enveloped his company this week in a Facebook post acknowledging that the policies that allowed the misuse of data were a breach of trust between Facebook and the people who share their data with us and expect us to protect it.
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The company will investigate apps that had access to large amounts of information prior to the 2014 changes, Zuckerberg said, and audit any apps that show suspicious activity. A Facebook spokesperson declined to share how Facebook was defining large amounts of information or how many apps would be scrutinized. Zuckerberg said in his interviews that the number of apps was in the thousands. The company will also inform those whose data was misused, including people who were directly affected by the Kogan data operation
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Facebook also promised to further restrict the amount of data third-party developers can access when users login to their sites with their Facebook profile, turn off data sharing for apps that havent been used for three months, and move the tool that allows users to restrict the data they share from the Settings menu to the News Feed.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/21/mark-zuckerberg-response-facebook-cambridge-analytica
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)janterry
(4,429 posts)They made money off of Kogen - at the expense of turkers. They take their time removing survey's that violate TOS and don't monitor what gets posted to their site (they rely on turkers to report).
Also, Kogen still has an active account on mturk. He should be kicked off and never allowed to post again.
bucolic_frolic
(42,663 posts)Last edited Thu Mar 22, 2018, 06:56 AM - Edit history (1)
never used it. never will. better things to do than waste time on social media.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)#DeleteFacebook
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)When you stand to lose a bunch of money. I have lived a full and fully modern life without FaceBook, and plan to do so for a long, long time.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)Fuck Zuckerberg. He knew exactly what he was doing and was probably paid tens of millions for it.
MrsCoffee
(5,801 posts)He gives no shits about the dumb fucks that trust him (his words). He has been an asshole about privacy from day one starting his rise with the theft of 4000 individuals personal data and bragged about it. He was lucky as hell Harvard dropped the charges. He was obviously also emboldened.
Fuck Zuck.
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,818 posts)Botany
(70,291 posts)Eat shit and die. The Trump campaign had people who were facebook employees
working full time at Trump's HQ and getting data and information from Cambridge
Analytica and wikileaks and they helped to weaponize that data/information for
the Trump campaign. Facebook was also being used by the Russians to data mine
information on Americans for Cambridge Analytica.
BTW you cashed the checks too. This isn't just about apps motherfucker.
Does the name Theresa Hong ring a bell, Mark?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029566031
FB, YouTube, Twitter, Cambridge Analytica, Russia, the GOP & Trump.
In an online BBC video, Theresa Hong, the Donald Trump campaigns Digital Content Director, has made a number of startling confessions that she seems to think were bragging points. Shes revealed that Cambridge Analytica, the company suspected of having used voter data stolen by the Russian government to plot its online marketing strategy on Trumps behalf, ran its operations out of the same offices where the Trump campaign itself was plotting its paid Facebook ad strategy. But the truly shocking revelation is who else she admits was in the building, which Trumps people called Project Alamo.
The BBC interviewer asks Hong, What were Facebook and Google and YouTube people actually doing here? Why were they here? She responds by saying They were helping us, you know. They were basically our hands-on partners as far as being able to utilize the platform as effectively as possible. Shen then bragged When youre pumping in millions and millions of dollars to these social platforms, youre going to get white glove treatment. So they would send people, you know, representatives to the Project Alamo to ensure that all our needs were being met. Watch the shocking BBC video below
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)OF course he'll come out and make a statement before he ends up a common multi,multi millionaire. That asshat doesn't care about what's happened OR rigged up elections. How much is FB BANKING on that Trump Corporate tax cut??
milestogo
(16,829 posts)still_one
(91,946 posts)exposed information about themselves on the internet?
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)alarimer
(16,245 posts)We are the suckers who fall for Facebook's bullshit.
I hope this company goes down.