Yep. How are people supposed to even know that an app a random Facebook friend downloaded could siphon of all *your* data, let alone find the obscure option to turn it off or realize Facebook relinquished control.https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/975856888163250178?s=21 …
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Maybe the 50 million whose data was siphoned to Cambridge Analytica will get notified but there were so many many apps doing the same thing. How about those people? Will each incident get a notification? That spigot was open for so many years (when it helped Facebook grow).
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Facebook's CEO constantly releases statements apologizing and wowing to protect our privacy better and promising to do better by "the community." The business model which made him so rich and its harms are never addressed. So we keep coming back to the same point.
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Anyway, here's my TED talk from last year where I talk about all this, and what it means for elections and beyond. No big secret here that Zuckerberg has to discover. Many of us, especially in academia but not just, have been shouting from the rooftops.https://twitter.com/TEDTalks/status/976549911759147008 …
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He controls the voting stock, and the way it is structured he will as long as he wants. (Sandberg seems to be the other person of substantive influence but without the voting stock). But Facebook is effectively under legal control of a single person.https://twitter.com/AaronGreenspan/status/976633746899140609 …
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We should be re-evaluating any business model that depends on that.
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