The hits keep coming for Facebook: Web giant made 14m people's private posts public Facebook is having to douse yet another privacy blaze – as the social network admitted to inadvertently setting some of its addicts' private posts to public, meaning anyone could read them. The web goliath said that about 14 million people were affected by a bug that, for a nine-day span between May 18 and 27, caused profile …
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https://www.theonion.com/mark-zuckerberg-promises-that-misuse-of-facebook-user-d-1823988784
"MENLO PARK, CA—In an effort to demonstrate the social media platform’s total commitment to profits, Mark Zuckerberg took to his personal Facebook page Thursday to promise that the company’s misuse of personal data will, as of now, happen again and again. “We have a responsibility to our users, and if we can’t repeatedly betray your trust and sell your private information to the highest bidder, then we don’t deserve to serve you,”
"Zuckerberg in his first public statement on the matter, adding that users should feel confident that the social network would do everything in its power to exploit them, through both third-party applications and partnerships with shadowy marketing firms willing to pay any price Facebook asks. “In 2013, a Cambridge University researcher named Alexandr Kogan stole personal data through a personality quiz, and since then, we’ve worked tirelessly to ensure it can be distributed everywhere, for as long as we exist."
"I invented Facebook, and at the end of the day, I’m solely responsible for what information is regularly released to unknown, unauthorized sources on this platform.” According to reports, Zuckerberg then announced that Facebook would soon be adding new privacy tools to provide users with the false sense that they had any control."
"users should feel confident that the social network would do everything in its power to exploit them"
I know plenty of people that would pay to be "exploited", you see all sorts of "abuse" that people want when you hang out in BSDM social web sites. Though the difference is that in BDSM circles, consent is a number one priority before you "abuse" people.
Your tongue in cheek dialogue misses the point that Facebook earns their money by selling personal information. They've cleverly hidden this in their Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy since nobody reads those before checking the "I accept" box to get on with uploading their personal info.
Facebook does not have a responsibility to protect personal information beyond what is mandated by law and has a long record of changing privacy levels without warning. It's a free service to use in exchange for allowing them to sell your information and market products and services to you based on your activities online (everywhere). It that's a problem for you, don't use them. Pick up the phone and call your mom and friends instead. You could even see if you have a pen that works and send them a card for maximum cred.
Why? Because Zuk & Crew apologized. So there, that fixed it - FFS!
In order to be fixed, something must first be broken. Farcebook are unlikely to consider compromising your privacy as something being broken; it's basically the core of their business model.
Learn about you and sell data driven access to you directly to ad slingers, with occasional bouts of giving away your actual data tossed in for shits & giggles.
Or was it picked up but Facebook just proceeded to bury it under a carpet!
Before #Deletefacebook, I caught FB 'undeleting timeline posts' for 10 yrs.
I even tried reporting it to the ODPC (Irish DPC) aka Helen Dixon in Dublin.
If its hard for Schrems to get anywhere, you can imagine just how far I got!
Lite touch regulation is sweet. Is social media Big Tobacco or Big Banking?
So, what did Helen Dixon and her merry band of lite-touch regulators do? They did what paper-pushers do, they wrote a report! That's it! Not even a small fine. Covering up breaches, just the cost of doing business. This is what happens when Irish politicians bend-over for US Tech Giants. GDPR, bring justice:
https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/0607/968947-yahoo-data-breach/
I've been warning my friends and relatives about this for years.
"Yeah, we know. But we don't have anything to hide."
Including all of their friends and enemies data points. Their children's names and schools. Whatever.
You know, if the titans of commerce were actually made to pay for the damages they caused to other individuals, we would not need any taxes or welfare or anything else.
Oh, that's assuming the rendered damages would actually go to the harmed parties. Not the legals/lobbyists/critters.
Since March I managed to get most of my family / friends to switch to Signal. They're not abandoning Facebook / WhatsApp / Google altogether. But there is a growing unease that Facebook / Google are that 'BOOT-Stamping-On-A-Human-Face-Forever'....
"Since March I managed to get most of my family / friends to switch to Signal. They're not abandoning Facebook / WhatsApp / Google altogether."
I have said this before about Signal... yes, its very good, but unless people stop using the usual suspects of social media its just another app taking up space...
I don't understand why people just forget all the nonsense about security and privacy on facebook and friends. Who cares what privacy setting you use, because as we can see the stuff can be made public at any time. The simple solution is to just assume EVERYTHING you put on the internet, and that includes messages on signal, is public. if you have any worry about it becoming public knowlage, don't put it online ANYWHERE. security is that simple !
"I invented Facebook, and at the end of the day, I’m solely responsible for what information is regularly released to unknown, unauthorized sources on this platform.” - Mark Zuckerberg
Fecking idiot! It's not some tinpot little forum running on a PC in your bedroom. Jesus Mr Z needs grow up, he's still behaving like a spotty little nerd who thinks responsibility is a dirty word. In case you've not noticed Mr Z your little project has exploded to draw in a 1/3 of the planet's population, all sharing their dirty laundry in public, making you and your mates billions and letting you lot carry on behaving like silly 20 somethings who need to learn to grow up and realise what you have created and take proper care of it.
While your rant is worthy of an upvote, so I gave you one, do you realise the bit you are quoting is not only from a well known satire site, the OP was complaining that it is getting hard to tell the difference between satire and reality?
Launching a new feature just before GDPR goes into force? Sure, what could possibly go wrong!
Let's hope they [did|didn't]* notify the authorities and affected users without delay. The authorities will be looking for a public test case, and Facebook just handed them a beauty.
* Delete according to preference
Just a suggestion or two, but I think things will go a lot better for you in future if you slow down a bit on your constant updgrades and
1. Think carefully about the privacy implactions of new features,
2. Seriously cut back on the extent of your sharing data with third parties, and
3. For God's sake test your bloody changes properly before release.
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Really ? FB cannot afford further doubt ?
Because I'm still waiting for news of the mass exodus and shutting down of accounts that has been promised everywhere and, as long as that hasn't happened, I fail to see what FB is mortally in danger of.
This is just more of the same ; FB cocks up, nobody moves, the world keeps turning, El Zuck keeps raking in the dough.
And you've not even seen half of it, before it's deleted by mods working in the background. I've seen some truly despicable things that thankfully never made it very far.
Social media exists purely for the benefit of those who want to exploit it for their own gains or agendas. And someone mentioned earlier that it is only used because it is 'free'. Personally I'd like to introduce 'Internet Licenses' as you find for cars.. Of course, people don't WANT Social Media policed, free speech and all that. Many don't realise it is already policed, just in the shadows.
Maybe we should charge for these licenses, and have a 'Social' test before issuing them.
Users paying for access to the Internet/Social Media, instead of relying on selling personal data? It'll never happen of course. But people like Zuck should not be allowed to have such a monopoly on data.
Step 1: get all 14 million victims in one place.
Step 2: hand each of them a baseball bat.
Step 3: bring the Zuck to the same place.
Step 4: allow each victim to hit the Zuck once and only once with the bat.
Step 5: send a video of the process to Google HQ with a polite note warning of consequences with data breaches. Repeat to the HQ of the bank, insurance company, or other large data-gobbling firm of your choice.
[Exits, to the sound of my fav Beatle's tune, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"]
We have fixed this issue and starting today we are letting everyone affected know and asking them to review any posts they made during that time,"
Hmmm, let's see; the flaw happened in May 2018, and I *stopped* visiting Farcebook the end of August 2017. Unless their system is automatically making posts for me (which I wouldn't put past them) I'm OK.
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