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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In Turkish there is a saying: when the apology is more revealing of a wrong. This is pretty much that. Sure, no security measures were bypassed. (Of course that would be another huge wrong). Maybe there's something wrong with all this enormous data surveillance machinery, huh.
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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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Was there any evidence Obama used the private data targeting angle? Or was it more just using it as a new media channel? Those seem very different.
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They used a similar app, even, but they were open about it. But yeah, similar dynamics.
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Show me evidence of that. If you are referring to the "app" that gave them access to publicly available Facebook data, that's hardly similar at all.
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Did you even read this? Microtargeting and "targeted sharing" are nothing like what CA did, not even in the ballpark.
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Really? Used Facebook to persuade, mobilize or register also, "commercial data warehouses sold lists of all voting-age adults, and comparing those lists with registration rolls revealed eligible candidates, each attached to a home address to which an application could be mailed."
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All of that is publicly available data that any business or campaign can purchase, analyze, etc. We may not like it, but the data economy is real and perfectly legal. What CA did was not.
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The problem with CA is not that they "used data" or "used Facebook", it's the way in which they obtained user profile data. Obama's team looked for every possible way to gain an advantage, but they played by the rules. If you don't like the rules, fine, but comparing to CA is BS
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My Facebook feed in England: Trump's a racist By literally every single media outlet, pushing public opinion, so what did i do? Researched his entire life. Not a racist, businessman and a good one at that, best friends in countries with hardly any white people, 100% racist.
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If the Trump team had used it to win that'd be fine. Instead, Russia used it to win. Your election was invalid
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totally different scenario. Obama's team never promoted extremism unlike the Trump and Kremlin troll teams. They transparently conducted operations like the colorful poster that went viral and different artists speaking for Obama...
@mbsimon@ghoshd7https://twitter.com/mbsimon/status/975231597183229953 …
I ran the Obama 2008 data-driven microtargeting team. How dare you! We didn’t steal private Facebook profile data from voters under false pretenses. OFA voluntarily solicited opinions of hundreds of thousands of voters. We didn’t commit theft to do our groundbreaking work. https://twitter.com/CamAnalytica/status/975081782625226752 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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some of us vomited a bit on our mouths when we first heard the phrase Gov. 2.0 back in the mid 00s.
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