Facebook Says Data on 87 Million People May Have Been Shared

[Steel]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-04/facebook-says-data-on-87-million-people-may-have-been-shared

[the rifleman]

Facebook or the zucc needs to go down for this shit. It's unbelievable the amount, and kind of data they kept/sold/gave away on people.

[SILBERDRACHEN]

The moment when you completely regret trading nudes with your gf/bf

[.𓃉𓁿𓂎𓁿𓃉.]

i hoped they shared my data so at least one of those 87 mil shared was useless

[Solece]

Unfortunately they aren't worthless to them. CA admitted to using blackmail tactics against targets in order to influence them, in certain instances. That would definitely include 'embarrasing images' being leaked like that. With that said, unless you're a politician or someone in a position of power, then your nudes are indeed worthless to them. I doubt images would've been sent anyways.

[27X]

Untrue.

"Directed persuasion" is a fancy way of saying "blackmail by association", and if agencies were doing it during Obama's tenure, they are certainly doing it now as well.

[BepisMax]

Reading that article... "may have been", "could have been", "as many as"

Isn't it your responsibility to fucking know?

[Mr Skeltal]

I'm glad I never attached a phone number to my account

[.𓃉𓁿𓂎𓁿𓃉.]

i guess i should have clarified that when i said "useless" i was referring to the vast majority of people's nudes being useless to them

[Cruncy]

No wonder why I get all these spam emails.

[Doctor Smiles]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/04/04/facebook-said-the-personal-data-of-most-its-2-billion-users-has-been-collected-and-shared-with-outsiders/?utm_term=.b84d5762b92a

Welp. :|

[hexpunK]

It's not particularly surprising that this has happened tbh. For the longest time the Facebook app API that a lot of pages, web apps, etc. hook into was really fucking lax about permissions. It gave away a lot of information about users by default and Facebook only really locked it down a few years back with more granular permissions that you can individually deny.

But the process of applying for the ability to ask for those permissions is quite easy to get through as long as you've got no previous record of being a shit. They'll approve your request for things like the "Friends" permission quite readily. And despite it being a ToS requirement that you do not keep data gathered from the API longer than needed, deleting it when the user unlinks the app, nobody actually does that because holy shit that's a lot of work.

The Facebook Graph API alone makes scraping data incredibly easy, especially before the big permissions lockdown where you could query almost anything about a users account that was considered "public" with little pushback from Facebook. Even post-lockdown the problem will persist as a lot of the shadier apps ask for damn near every permission and users just grant them every time anyway.

[Phygon]

Actually, they said they could, not that they did- not that I want to spend any more time than necessary to defend those people.