Facebook Faces New Accusation of Data Leak Via Quiz App (politico.eu)

A security failure in a popular quiz app on Facebook left millions of people's data exposed for almost two years, a cybersecurity activist revealed Thursday. From a report: The application, called Nametests.com, has run Facebook quizzes for years, but it left unprotected the personal data of Facebook users taking such a quiz on its website, allowing third parties to read and steal the data, the activist said. The leak was discovered by Belgian hacker Inti de Ceukelaire, who published his findings in a blog post. "There was a security leak at one of the most popular quiz apps that was accessible for at least two years," De Ceukelaire told POLITICO. "I can only note that Facebook didn't see this." He added that the data exposed included pictures, status updates, friends lists and more.

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All kidding aside...

[Rob Y.]

...why on Earth does Facebook pay for content with your data? Because that seems to be their business model. They want games, etc. in order to keep you on their site - and sell ads against you. So far, so good. But why not give 3rd party content providers a cut of the ad revenue? Isn't that what Google does with YouTube?

As it is, Facebook seems to want the content - while hoarding all the ad revenue for itself. Nice business model, if you can manage to blur the lines enough so that your users don't understand just what greedy, unscrupulous shits you are. And 'they all do it' won't cut it. It just serves Facebook's agenda. They don't all do what is being described here. Only Facebook, that we know of, stoops that low.