Why are people calling this a data breach? It seems like an apps TOS violation, and no different from the privacy problem that defined FB apps from day one. It sucks but doesn’t seem surprising. What am I missing?https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election …
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It goes to CFAA analysis in important ways.
Sure, but given that both CA and FB are facing challenges under EU law, the TOS language is actually far more useful.
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Not sure I follow. Useful for what?
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As Cathy notes, EU law (actually even just UK law) will provide affected users a great deal of leverage over FB and CA. Breach is an American word that brings meaningless protections. Harvest and sale, or whatever you want to call it, brings far more in Europe.
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And there are legal challenges in the works in both UK (v CA) and Ireland (v FB) on those grounds.
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Agree. And stuff grandfathered in by FTC consent decree here is still fair game, and under stronger laws, there.
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I'm having a hard time not seeing Facebook's move as a GDPR compliance exercise. I have all the feelings about that... but it would explain the TOS enforcement push.
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