Personally I thought it was good that the CSO of a $500bn company was trying to engage in a public, technical conversation about what, specifically, did and did not happen.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/975067185889427456 …
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Sure. I wasn’t objecting at all to Alex tweeting. That’s not my point above. I agree, this isn’t a security breach in that sense. It’s a structural business model issue. And that’s my point.
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You said his tweets were a damning indictment. That’s not an objection?
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I’d seen Facebook objection to breach language elsewhere, including allegedly legal threats to stop publication of story—so wasn’t referring to his tweets. That said, I think Alex’s explanation does implicate the business model. How is an ordinary person supposed to consent?
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Boz, too, was arguing it’s not a technical breach. I agree. Security, privacy, data integrity and informational public goods are not all identical things. https://twitter.com/boztank/status/975018461997887494 …
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A security breach is one kind of wrong/threat. What happened here is another kind. I’m long on the record that these are structural threats from the intersection of business model and technology. It’s not incompetence or personal inclinations. (Those would be easier problems).
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I want to see innovative business models and technologies that provide the social goods with less of these structural threats. I think Alex and Boz were helpful in clarifying. Alex often points out the tough trade-off media coverage ignores. I want more of that discussion.
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And for a decade, *everyone* said FB should allow more API access to enable that innovation. Anyone advocating regulation would have demanded it. And yet...
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I don’t advocate API access like that. Facebook needs independent research for both accountability and also these are thorny problems. Outsiders can puncture groupthink. But, no, I don’t think data should be easily taken offsite. This is kind of obvious, no?
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