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nitpicker

(7,153 posts)
Thu Mar 22, 2018, 04:28 AM Mar 2018

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”.
(snip)

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
(snip)

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 haven’t 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

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Mark Zuckerberg apologises for Facebook's 'mistakes' over Cambridge Analytica (Original Post) nitpicker Mar 2018 OP
Talk but no action is cheap. democratisphere Mar 2018 #1
complicit Skittles Mar 2018 #2
Amazon is also responsible janterry Mar 2018 #3
Face thingy bucolic_frolic Mar 2018 #4
Too late, fuck you. JNelson6563 Mar 2018 #5
Yeah, easy to apologize HopeAgain Mar 2018 #6
OOPS I was caught and now I have to scarmble to make some great shit up for PR titaniumsalute Mar 2018 #7
He is sorry he got caught, scared of jail, his stock is tanking and no hope of being president. MrsCoffee Mar 2018 #8
Weak sauce Fuckerberg, weak sauce. FailureToCommunicate Mar 2018 #9
He's sorry his stock devalued 9%.... remember to him we're dumbfucks for "trusting him" Fullduplexxx Mar 2018 #10
Dear Mark, Botany Mar 2018 #11
Total BS,he owns 400M shares and has seen this TANK--now down 24.00 per share since Jan... Bengus81 Mar 2018 #12
I hope he loses all his money. milestogo Mar 2018 #13
Facebook harvests and sells user data? What did users think was happening when they voluntarily still_one Mar 2018 #14
He already admits "someone" is trying to disrupt the mid-terms........... Bengus81 Mar 2018 #15
Not a mistake. It was deliberate. alarimer Mar 2018 #16
Shuck Zuck! n/t miyazaki Mar 2018 #17
 

janterry

(4,429 posts)
3. Amazon is also responsible
Thu Mar 22, 2018, 05:34 AM
Mar 2018

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)
4. Face thingy
Thu Mar 22, 2018, 06:00 AM
Mar 2018

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.

HopeAgain

(4,407 posts)
6. Yeah, easy to apologize
Thu Mar 22, 2018, 06:47 AM
Mar 2018

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)
7. OOPS I was caught and now I have to scarmble to make some great shit up for PR
Thu Mar 22, 2018, 07:08 AM
Mar 2018

Fuck Zuckerberg. He knew exactly what he was doing and was probably paid tens of millions for it.

MrsCoffee

(5,801 posts)
8. He is sorry he got caught, scared of jail, his stock is tanking and no hope of being president.
Thu Mar 22, 2018, 07:15 AM
Mar 2018

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.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
11. Dear Mark,
Thu Mar 22, 2018, 07:36 AM
Mar 2018

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 campaign’s Digital Content Director, has made a number of startling confessions that she seems to think were bragging points. She’s revealed that Cambridge Analytica, the company suspected of having used voter data stolen by the Russian government to plot its online marketing strategy on Trump’s 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 Trump’s 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 you’re pumping in millions and millions of dollars to these social platforms, you’re 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)
12. Total BS,he owns 400M shares and has seen this TANK--now down 24.00 per share since Jan...
Thu Mar 22, 2018, 08:10 AM
Mar 2018

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??

still_one

(91,946 posts)
14. Facebook harvests and sells user data? What did users think was happening when they voluntarily
Thu Mar 22, 2018, 08:30 AM
Mar 2018

exposed information about themselves on the internet?



alarimer

(16,245 posts)
16. Not a mistake. It was deliberate.
Thu Mar 22, 2018, 11:20 AM
Mar 2018

We are the suckers who fall for Facebook's bullshit.

I hope this company goes down.

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