dagblog - Comments for "How to opt out of Facebook’s Platform data sharing"

Steve Bannon at FT conference

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 22:47:44 +0000

In reply to How to opt out of Facebook’s Platform data sharing

Steve Bannon at FT conference: I didn't know about Facebook data mining at Cambridge Analytica

It marked the first time the former top White House strategist and Trump campaign boss spoke publicly about the scandal.
Bannon declined to comment on suspended Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix, but zeroed in on Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

By Mike Calia @ CNBC.com, 1 hr. ago.

[....] The former Breitbart News boss also pushed back on the idea that Cambridge Analytica won the election for Trump.

"Here's what won it for Trump: economic nationalism" and talking in plain language to the American people, Trump said [....]

Facebook Made Him a

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 03:21:32 +0000

In reply to How to opt out of Facebook’s Platform data sharing

Facebook Made Him a Billionaire. Now He’s a Critic.

By Nellie Bowles @ NYTimes.com, MARCH 21, 2018

As Silicon Valley experiences a wave of criticism, even some former colleagues are becoming adversaries.

Another prominent skeptic spoke out this week, as a creator of one of Facebook’s top products waded into criticism of the internet giant.

“It is time. #deletefacebook,” wrote Brian Acton, one of the founders of WhatsApp, wrote on Twitter. His company was bought by Facebook for $19 billion in 2014. The deal made him a billionaire.

Mr. Acton’s anti-Facebook message, retweeted more than 10,000 times, captured a moment in the tech industry when even some of its best-known people are publicly calling for change. The chorus has grown louder this week, as Facebook faces questions over how it allowed a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, to obtain data on 50 million users.

“The question is, ‘What are you loyal to?’” said Tristan Harris, a former Google employee who has started The Center for Humane Technology, an organization for Silicon Valley workers who want to change corporate culture. He has been critical of social media companies for creating addictive products that inflame cultural tensions.

“Are you more loyal to your company,” Mr. Harris said. “Or are you more loyal to protecting the fabric of our society?”

The tech defections have accelerated in recent months, especially for Facebook.

Justin Rosenstein, the creator of the Facebook “like” button, deleted the product from his phone and spoke out about the industry using psychologically manipulative advertising. Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook’s former head of user growth, said in December that the company was “ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.” And Sandy Parakilas, a former Facebook platform operations manager, wrote on Tuesday in T he Washington Post that Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, must “be held accountable for the negligence of his company.” [....]

‘I’m not going to be bullied

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 03:15:03 +0000

In reply to How to opt out of Facebook’s Platform data sharing

‘I’m not going to be bullied by Facebook.’ Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells his story.

Christopher Wylie, now regretful over his role in turning data on an estimated tens of millions of U.S. voters into a high-tech political persuasion machine, has delivered revelations that have triggered government investigations on both sides of the Atlantic, sent Facebook’s stock price plunging and pushed long-simmering privacy concerns to a boil.

By Craig Timberg and Karla Adam
2 hours ago @ WashingtonPost.com

Hello and likewise fellow

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:04:16 +0000

In reply to How to opt out of Facebook’s Platform data sharing

Hello and likewise fellow also humans. I have been made aware of some stories which have alarmed people, and as a similar mammal to you with functioning empathy circuits I am alarmed too. pic.twitter.com/1u4z9jdnZY
— joe (@mutablejoe) March 21, 2018

At this very difficult time for him, Mark Zuckerberg is requesting privacy.
— Mr Roger Quimbly (@RogerQuimbly) March 21, 2018

This is what Oremus posted @

artappraiser — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 06:33:01 +0000

In reply to Facebook Is Passing the Buck

This is what Oremus posted @ 1:59 am March 20:

The Real Scandal Isn’t What Cambridge Analytica Did, It’s what Facebook made possible.

By WILL OREMUS

[....] Sensational as it sounds, however, the Cambridge Analytica scandal doesn’t indict Facebook in quite the way it might seem. It reveals almost nothing about the social network or its data policies that wasn’t already widely known, and there’s little evidence of blatant wrongdoing by Facebook or its employees. It’s also far from clear what impact, if any, the ill-gotten personal data had on the election’s outcome.

In short, the outrage now directed at Facebook feels disproportionate to the company’s culpability in this specific episode. But that doesn’t mean people are wrong to be outraged. For Facebook, the larger scandal here is not what shadowy misdeeds it allowed Cambridge Analytica to do. It’s what Facebook allowed anyone to do, in plain sight—and, more broadly, it’s the data-fueled online business model that Facebook helped to pioneer [....]

Similar elsewhere in techland news; this is

the Wired.com headline story right now and also their #1 most popular story:

A HURRICANE FLATTENS FACEBOOK

By Nicholas Thompson & Fred Vogelstein, March 20, 11:24 am

Techcrunch.com:

Zuck and Sandberg go M.I.A. as Congress summons Facebook leadership by name

By Taylor Hatmaker, 8 hrs. ago

Mashable.com:

Competition challenges people to build a successor to Facebook

By Johnny Liu, 4 hrs. ago

and

Even the founder of WhatsApp thinks you should delete Facebook

and

Scientist at centre of Facebook scandal didn't think data would be used to target voters

and

I'm ready to part ways with Facebook, but can't imagine life without Instagram

Facebook Is Passing the Buck

artappraiser — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 06:13:12 +0000

In reply to How to opt out of Facebook’s Platform data sharing

Facebook Is Passing the Buck

The company has finally responded to the Cambridge Analytica scandal—sort of.

By WILL OREMUS @ Slate.com, March 20, 5:50 pm

After a long, awkward silence, Facebook has issued its first official statement since Saturday morning in response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal that is rocking its business and public image. And it says—well, not a whole lot [....]

He concludes it sounds like they are afraid of legal consequences but it still seems to boggle his mind how they are just sort of sitting there doing the silence thing, disastrously losing customers and company value and not saying much. Which in itself implies they must be really scared by what lawyers or analysts are saying?