Facebook's defense that Cambridge Analytica harvesting of FB user data from millions is not technically a "breach" is a more profound & damning statement of what's wrong with Facebook's business model than a "breach".
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Also *ahem*. A good number of us had been objecting and pointing out the broader harms of the interaction between Facebook's business model and politics even when it appeared to benefit Obama/Democrats.pic.twitter.com/SVk4Iw86uG
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If your business is building a massive surveillance machinery, the data will eventually be used & misused. Hacked, breached, leaked, pilfered, conned, "targeted", "engaged", "profiled", sold.. There is no informed consent because it's not possible to reasonably inform or consent.
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Facebook (and Google, too!) have great security teams. Some of the best in the business, no doubt. Full of conscientious people. But they can’t mitigate the business model. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Informed consent cannot function when we cannot be reasonably informed. https://twitter.com/hshaban/status/975082177061847040 …
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Should add my NYTimes piece to this thread. Opaque targeting based on massive surveillance is the problem, and Cambridge Analytica is the symptom du jour. Facebook cut off this pipe because it wants to do all this itself—for a fee! It’s their business. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/opinion/facebook-cambridge-analytica.html …pic.twitter.com/z0DtZGbZPg
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Wait though, CA misused data that was willingly given to them by users, not by Facebook. Only Facebooks TOS makes this unacceptable. There was no breach or security issue, it’s a legal issue.
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I thought that was a Nasreddin Hoca story :)
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And we were worried about govt surveillance, a la BIg Brother!
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I like that Turkish saying.
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It probably comes from latin 'excusatio non petita accusatio manifesta', the old and wise Roman law
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