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Facebook Gets Hit With Four Lawsuits Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal (sfgate.com)
Facebook has had a terrible week. Since it was revealed that political data firm Cambridge Analytica obtained information about 50 million Facebook users, the social media company has been in damage control mode, apologizing for its mistakes and conducting forensic audits to determine exactly what happened. SFGate reports today that Facebook "has been hit with four lawsuits in federal court in San Francisco and San Jose thus far this week." From the report: One lawsuit was filed by a Facebook user who claims the Menlo Park company acted with "absolute disregard" for her personal information after allegedly representing that it wouldn't disclose the data without permission or notice. That lawsuit, filed by Lauren Price of Maryland in San Jose on Tuesday, seeks to be a class action on behalf of up to 50 million people whose data was allegedly collected from Facebook by London-based Cambridge Analytica. The lawsuit says that during the 2016 election, Price was "frequently targeted with political ads while using Facebook." It seeks financial restitution for claims of unfair business practices and negligence. Both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are named as defendants. Cambridge Analytica also announced today that the company will undergo an independent third-party audit to determine whether it still holds any data covertly obtained from Facebook users. "We take the disturbing recent allegations of unethical practices in our non-U.S. political business very seriously," CEO Alexander Tayler writes. "The Board has launched a full and independent investigation into SCL Elections' past practices, and its findings will be shared publicly."
UPDATE: Eighteen enforcement officers have entered the Cambridge Analytica headquarters in London's West End to search the premises after the data watchdog was granted a warrant to examine its records, reports The Guardian.
UPDATE: Eighteen enforcement officers have entered the Cambridge Analytica headquarters in London's West End to search the premises after the data watchdog was granted a warrant to examine its records, reports The Guardian.
It was fine when Obama was mining facebook, but now worthy of being drawn and quartered.
If it wasn't for double standards, the left would have no standards at all.
That's what we call it here.
they've now had days to destroy/remove data from the premises. Reportedly, employees have been seen carrying boxes out of their London Headquarters after a judge was reluctant to issue a warrant immediately. Anything gathered from that location at least will likely be worthless. Smacks of a major cover-up/ass covering.
Time for Wikileaks to get their feed on.
Give a hand, not a hand-out.
Obama didn't have Russians on his team violating Facebook terms of use. Obama't collude with the Russian government's hacking and and dusruption of our election. Which is treason.
But, you knew that already.
The sheeple have finally figured out FB's business model, FB is running for the hills figuring the average sheeple has an IQ south of 100, yet being idiots, the sheeple are finally thinking FB is fucking them over big time.
// been warning friend/acquaintances for years about this
/// my reward? fuck all. suxs being the prophet of doom when doom shows up
//// Kids decided the way to keep up with the grandkids was via FB
//// Still no FB account, see them this weekend, should be interesting
/ never had a FB account
Its market valuation dropped 75 billion dollars.
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We all remember Republicans pushing through that bill for ISP's to do exactly what facebook did, right?
One lawsuit was filed by a Facebook user who claims the Menlo Park company acted with "absolute disregard" for her personal information after allegedly representing that it wouldn't disclose the data without permission or notice
No...SHE had absolute disregard for her own personal information, by giving that to FB. FB is data collector first and formost. You give them data do not be surprise when they use or sell.
"What's past is prologue."
Now the fun begins.
Sometimes you hate lawyers, sometimes you like them.
Prime example of Cambridge Analytica consumer.
Obama asked for users' consent. Cambridge Analytica bought data from a professor, which violated the TOS. They also messed with many other elections, bragged about bribery and corruption.
Trump is much less horrible? As a human being, a husband or a politician? Because it's false regardless and I hope I don't have to list all the reasons. Now I am thinking you have graduated from Trump University.
I have never met a Trumpster that exhibits anything close to sanity or fairness. They have spent so much time in Trumpland that Trump can tell them black is white and they would just believe it. I don't know why I even bother.
Guccifer 2.0, Cambridge Anal. and Species Jumping...
It's all coming together quite nicely. Trump lawyers heading for the exits is a good sign. Top law firms telling him, "Nah, we're good. Best of luck, Mr President". Hires a warmonger to be his new National Security Advisor. I'm old enough to remember when people said Trump hated foreign wars.
Trump signs the Democrats' spending bill and headed to Mar-a-Lago for a week. I know what he'll be watching on TV Sunday night. Best believe Melania's got a legal team combing over the pre-nup and the NDA. Stormy's got pictures and video. Karen McDougal's got receipts. Mueller's checking off boxes.
All this in the last three days. It seems like only last week that his third consecutive endorsee in a congressional election went down to defeat. Oh wait, it was just last week. Oh yeah, I forgot: Breitbart guys were caught on tape trying to bribe a lawyer to lie about his client. What am I forgetting?
#WINNING
You are welcome on my lawn.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or very very very very stupid.
trump is tanking our economy, has made besties with russia, given away a trillion dollars in a tax cut that was supposed to benefit rich people and does but then screwed everyone over because he tanked the economy, started a trade war, and so on.
Hillary would have kept the economy going status quo which is all i really wanted. it is a farce that she was corrupt. Pick any of the slew of "normal" republicans that resigned from law suits this year or the plethora of fox news broadcasters, so that argument just makes people look like idiots. She wouldn't be a traitor and she wouldn't be a pushover like trump the wimp.
so if you weren't sarcastic.. go peddle your russian garbage elsewhere.
if you were sarcastic, sorry man... please add a /s
Oh please, the only one keeping the Obamnamy from heading into a complete tailspin is Trump. He's finally bringing American businesses and American money back to America. He's revitalizing many American industries that had been destroyed by "free trade."
If you want to see bad, you should see what the economy would have looked like under Crooked Hillary. We dodged a bullet.
Here come the class action lawyers jockeying for position. Something like this is virtually an automatic payoff for not much work.
We need to shut down Facebook until we can figure out what the hell is going on!
or something like that. heard a loud orange person say something similar to that.
I need to pop more popcorn.
Why I should give a shit about a data company not protecting PUBLIC data from an analytical company that then useses it to form a complete picture of a voter so that a presidential candidate can use it to appeal to his voter base. This is the ultimate form of democracy. Facebook knows more about what you want than you do. So what if Trump is giving the American people what they REALLY want.
Revitalizing industry? I work for the healthcare industry. Our rapid expansion to helping children and the elderly stopped because all the money is now gone. Children are dying. Elderly are dying early. So fuck you. Fuck you and your American hating self. I am sure Adolf is proud of you.
But Obama used Facebook to inform voters. Zuck in the last election used Facebook to tell people to vote for Trump. That's the difference.
Just did it today. Mostly full of crap astroturfing anyways... yeah, sure... like my high school friends took time out of their day to post about some shitty "supplement".
Don't tell me you're like the gaslighting Obamabots, still going off of what the man said vs what he did.
Carol Davidsen, Obama's capaign media director, at a 2015 TED TALK! (YES!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?... about what the Democrats did in 2012. They pulled in the entire Facebook social network for the USA into their database.
The juiciest part is at 19 minutes into the talk. If you don't want to wade through the first 19 minutes, click on the following link that jumps directly to minute 19 of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?... She mentions that Facebook gave the Democrats special treatment "because they were on our side".
I'm not repeating myself
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The "March for our Lives" gun control march has been kept at the top of the news BY THE MEDIA for the last 30+ days. Do you think a national pro-life (anti-abortion) march would gain the same favorable coverage? Hell no . . . the only coverage it would get would be of its pink hat-wearing counter-protesters.
SCOTUS ruled on that last August
It's not significantly different.
We're talking about a "Log in with Facebook" auth dialog which grants access to a person's friends without those friends' knowledge or approval. Furthermore, even if you ignore that part, it's always been against the terms of service to permanently mirror Facebook's data through their APIs.
The CA dataset was 50 million profiles harvested from ~250k authorized app log-ins. That's less than 0.5% of people in the dataset that actually approved anything, assuming they actually paid attention to what was being asked. It's reasonable to assume the Obama campaign saw similar numbers.
The company has been butt-fucking you for over a decade now, and you've been willingly bending over and applying the lube. They don't even bother to give you a reach-a-round, yet you keep coming back to them for more.
Look, if you don't like bottoming for Zuckerberg then stop bottoming for Zuckerberg. Otherwise, shut the fuck up, already. You have a choice. It's an informed one. Be a grown-up.
Determine how much personal profiling data found its way from Google to Civis Analytics to the Hillary Clinton campaign.