This Cambridge Analytica stuff is very frightening

[Orange Free State]

Don’t answer any surveys, ever.

Facebook Zucks

[sfwriter]

1. There once was a schmuck named Zuck

There once was a schmuck named Zuck
An entire nation he decided to fuck.
He was Putin it in,
And could see it was sin,
so he decided to prove he can suck.

[C_U_L8R]

2. They've got fake news

We've got fake profiles. Jam the machine and they have no power.

[brush]

3. Yes it is. I was just listening to the progressive channel on sattelite radio...

and there was a guy on defending facebook. His contention was that users of
the platform have the responsibility to set their privacy setting so their info can't be accessed, and that the users of facebook are its product—meaning that facebook can use that date to sell users info to advertisers etc. if privacy setting aren't tailored to stop that.

I don't buy that. I don't think facebook is entirely without liability in a case like the Cambridge Analytica data mining. I haven't heard where CA paid facebook for the data on the millions of users it gleamed from them.

Facebook is who the users contracted with when signing up whether they adjusted privacy setting or not (presumably so their ex unfriended people can't contact them, which most think the privacy settings are for), so it's facebooks responsibility to make sure their servers aren't accessible to internet info thieves like CA.

[Hortensis]

4. Well, at least he was't blaming Hillary for Russian

assistance to her opponents' campaigns. I presume this guy is targeting a higher level audience than that other person.

I wonder. If you blame enough victims, is that like killing enough people? At some point it becomes war and thus respectable?

[backtoblue]

5. We have an "opt out" privacy platform

I think that should be changed to opt in. That's how the UK is able to bring up investigations into CA. They have an opt in system that has stronger privacy protections.