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Mark Zuckerberg and the 2012 Facebook Moscow Hack
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: As Facebook's privacy debacle rages on, it's interesting to look back at Mark Zuckerberg's 2012 visit to the Facebook Moscow Hack (photos, video), at which Facebook provided training in how to access the data of app users' friends and awarded prizes for apps that did so.
In a 2012 video, Facebook's Simon Cross shows the Moscow crowd how they can "get a ton of other information" on Facebook users and their friends. "We now have an access token, so now let's make the same request again and see what happens," Cross explains (YouTube). "We've got a little bit more data, but now we can start doing really interesting stuff. We can get my friends. We can get some more information about one of my friends. Here's Connor, who you'll meet later. Say 'hello,' Connor. He's waving. And we can also get a ton of other information as well."
Cross, ironically, was the spokesperson Facebook later tapped in 2015 to explain to the press why giving friends' data to apps was a horrible idea that had to be curtailed lest Facebook lose its users' trust. Cross told reporters that Mark Zuckerberg said one of Facebook's new slogans was 'People First', because "if people don't feel comfortable using Facebook and specifically logging in Facebook and using Facebook in apps, we don't have a platform, we don't have developers."
In a 2012 video, Facebook's Simon Cross shows the Moscow crowd how they can "get a ton of other information" on Facebook users and their friends. "We now have an access token, so now let's make the same request again and see what happens," Cross explains (YouTube). "We've got a little bit more data, but now we can start doing really interesting stuff. We can get my friends. We can get some more information about one of my friends. Here's Connor, who you'll meet later. Say 'hello,' Connor. He's waving. And we can also get a ton of other information as well."
Cross, ironically, was the spokesperson Facebook later tapped in 2015 to explain to the press why giving friends' data to apps was a horrible idea that had to be curtailed lest Facebook lose its users' trust. Cross told reporters that Mark Zuckerberg said one of Facebook's new slogans was 'People First', because "if people don't feel comfortable using Facebook and specifically logging in Facebook and using Facebook in apps, we don't have a platform, we don't have developers."
And yet.. the outrage is "real" in 2016 but "acceptable" in 2012? At what point do you and yours understand that the data was available in both election years... but in 2012 it was freely given to the DNC... and in 2016 it had to be leaked/stolen/robbed?
Zuck and company have been fully complicit in data transactions with the DNC in 2012. This report amongst others... proves it. But in 2016 the election was "hacked" or "altered" or "leaked" or "influenced" by the Russians?
I'm guessing you miss the irony.. or are complicit with the irony.
In both 2012 and 2016 information was provided that wasn't willingly given. In 2012 the DNC got a grand tour of the Zuck empire.. but in 2016.. the RNC was not given the same privilege.. but data was stolen through other means.
Either way.. I didn't give either third-party explicit permission to my data.. yet they both got it.
It took a media outlet from the UK.. to still have this searchable today
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5520303/Obama-campaign-director-reveals-Facebook-ALLOWED-data.html
Don't lose your mind.. grow your knowledge...
Peace out.
This is entirely about the 2016 election. The majority of Facebook users are left-of-center politically and probably most of the Facebook team is too. EVERYBODY involved was perfectly happy about all this until 2016. When Team Obama openly bragged about using Facebook and vacuuming-up people's "friends" data for a super-campaign tool in 2012, and wiping the floor with Mitt Romney this way, they were celebrated as geniuses and people loved Facebook even more. Facebook and team Obama were the "good guys".
When word got out that Cambridge Analytica did the SAME THING and sold the results to the Trump campaign in 2016, suddenly Facebook lovers recoiled in horror.
Suddenly, people who agreed to let Facebook know EVERYTHING about them and their friends and collate all that data and sell the results to anybody who offerred cash was seen as despicable. Suddenly people who LOVED Zuck and his people analyzing the entire global population like bugs under a microscope and making BILLIONS of dollars doing it were repelled that their PRIVACY was being invaded; laughable really, given how exhibitionist so many Facebook users had become.
Give it a break! Hillary lost! The planet continues to spin on its axis and orbit the sun. Plenty of people who opposed Obama and saw him as an existential threat to America had to suck it up and endure him for 8 years. Obama opponents are seemingly more-mature than the fevered Hillary backers.