Facebook: Personal data of most of its 2 billion users has been collected and shared with outsiders

[dalton99a]

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/

Facebook said the personal data of most of its 2 billion users has been collected and shared with outsiders
by Craig Timberg, Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin | April 4 at 5:09 PM

Facebook said Wednesday that most of its 2 billion users likely have had their public profiles scraped by outsiders without the users' explicit permission, dramatically raising the stakes in a privacy controversy that has dogged the company for weeks, spurred investigations in the United States and Europe, and sent the company's stock price tumbling.

The acknowledgment was part of a broader disclosure by Facebook on Wednesday about the ways in which various levels of user data have been taken by everyone from malicious actors to ordinary app developers.

"We’re an idealistic and optimistic company, and for the first decade, we were really focused on all the good that connecting people brings," Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on a call with reporters Wednesday afternoon. "But it’s clear now that we didn’t focus enough on preventing abuse and thinking about how people could use these tools for harm as well."

[Matthew28]

1. That was probably the purpose

of the site all along.

[Skittles]

9. people are so naive

did anyone REALLY think the purpose of FB was to "connect with family and friends"? People are SO EASILY FOOLED....it KILLS me how many people were sucked into the FB Borg

[SunSeeker]

2. K & R for exposure.

[LanternWaste]

3. I presume that of every website I interact with.

I presume collection, sales and distribution of personal data of every website I interact with.

But then again, I also lock my car after I park it and walk away.

[Moostache]

4. I have known this for YEARS...

They have no product, no tangible way to make money aside from selling the information and habits of their users...period.
Did people really believe that they became one of the highest valued corporations in history because of ex-boyfriend stalking and cat pix?

[SonofDonald]

5. When they reported 50 million already

I figured they had everything as why would the algorithms be different for overseas users?.

I want to see them explain that away.

And is that quote at the end of the OP true?.

Ooops.....

[dalton99a]

7. Yes:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-facebook
September 20, 2010 Issue
The Face of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg opens up.
By Jose Antonio Vargas

In another exchange leaked to Silicon Alley Insider, Zuckerberg explained to a friend that his control of Facebook gave him access to any information he wanted on any Harvard student:

ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard

ZUCK: just ask

ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns

FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage that one?

ZUCK: people just submitted it

ZUCK: i don’t know why

ZUCK: they “trust me”

ZUCK: dumb fucks

According to two knowledgeable sources, there are more unpublished IMs that are just as embarrassing and damaging to Zuckerberg.

[Tipperary]

6. Zuckerberg is a sleaze. A cretin.

It has taken him awhile to agree to meet with Congress, so it seems apparent he is a coward as well.

[Skittles]

8. OF COURSE IT HAS

THAT IS THE SOLE REASON FACEBOOK EXISTS