I wanna talk a sec about CA, FB, and data science for a sec. I think we're badly mis-identifying the problem.
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Cambridge Analytica wasn't the smartest, most innovative. They were the most craven.
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The problem here is that facebook has access to this data at all. That they can parcel it out at will, uncontrolled. But then also that the flow can be reversed: you can push data of your own back to those same users.
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Being able to do one of those things at scale is hugely powerful. Being able to do both is unconscionable.
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Facebook itself is the weapon. The fact that data is strapped to a display engine is the issue. CA is the problem only insomuch as they were the first group willing to do the Bad Thing that we all have been screaming about for years.
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If it wasn't CA, it would have been someone else. Because the Bad Thing was too easy and too obvious to ignore.
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Lay Twitter needs a translation, por favor

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She's speaking CompSci CA built by code a program to let em plug into FB's aggregated data Analogy would be a bank (IRS, DMV, i.e. large data collecting institutions) allowing a contractor to write a program to let it mine all the info on, o, say 50M of their users' personal data
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The reality is those large institutions (Social Security, insurance companies, mutual fund companies, real estate companies, etc) all collect much personal data the same way FB does. The difference is those businesses are bound by law to protect their members' personal data.
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So to get an idea of what FB actually did think of Social Security or the IRS just deciding 1 day, hey, we have all this data, this contractor company wants to pay us to tap into a chunk of this nation's personal info - & agreeing to let them write a program to data-mine it

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@normangoldman as 1 of Norman Goldman's cool sound clips says "That's not a nice thing to do !"
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btw Grace, this is actually correct https://twitter.com/BV/status/976003808085139459 …
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Interesting, I think it was titled "Facebook is the problem" by BloombergView. Maybe they deleted, posted an edited take. I'll search for it. In the meantime, this is interesting ...https://twitter.com/MollyMcKew/status/976597071456362497 …
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