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Federal Facebook Probe Now Includes FBI, SEC: Report (apnews.com)
A federal probe into Facebook's sharing of user data with Cambridge Analytica now involves the FBI, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department, a report said. AP: Representatives from these agencies have joined the Federal Trade Commission in the inquiry, The Washington Post reported, citing five unnamed people familiar with the matter. The probe reportedly centers on what Facebook knew in 2015, when it learned that the political data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica had improperly accessed the personal data of tens of millions of Facebook users. Facebook didn't disclose the incident with the political firm, which later worked for the Trump campaign and other Republican candidates, until this March.
Execs. Chump employees. All of them. Drag them out to the public square and burn them like witches.
The American way... let company do terrible things to people and get too big to fail, THEN investigate.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Keep in mind that Cambridge Analytica only "improperly accessed" the data based on Facebook's new rules, the old rules and Facebook's own API allowed them access to the data they acquired. There was no "illegal access" - this was data that Facebook happily gave the Obama campaign as well as just about any company that asked.
There's no clear reason for the FBI to be involved other than continued butt-hurt over the "wrong" candidate winning the election. No one cared when Obama used the same trick to steal the election from Romney.
So what exactly is the crime? They helped Trump get elected?
Someone should remind the Deep State that they only exist as long as they stay in the shadows. This kind of behavior, along with the amorous, anti-Trump FBI agents, really doesn't play well in middle america. If the FBI, DoJ and SEC are investigating, can Mueller be far behind.
And, lock them up!
... this was data that Facebook happily gave the Obama campaign as well as just about any company that asked.
No they didn't. That is a lie started by Conservative Troll media (Fox News, Hannity, Rush, and all the idiots on political talk radio - and that makes you a rube.) I didn't start seeing ANYTHING from the Obama campaign until I signed up.
Now, what CA did was target people unsolicited with BS ads about immigrants , "America is for Americans only", stuff about infrastructure, and other issues that their data suggested - and targeted ads accordingly.
Trump then used that data to customize his speeches in those areas based upon data.
For example, they found that people were concerned about infrastructure and that is when Trump said that he was going to spend a Trillion dollars on roads, bridges and highways.
And why when he was in Potatohoe he railed about keeping them illegal immigrants out - even those people have no illegal immigrant problem.
And everyone seems to think facebook and CA are the problem when it's really our stupid electorate (mostly the conservatives) who lack critical thinking skills and are too lazy to really learn about the issues.
Because let's face it, Trump won on complete horseshit.
The SEC only has civil jurisdiction, not criminal. They only have the authority to sue, levy fines and prohibit future involvement by bad actors. Only the DOJ can prosecute criminally for securities fraud.
One way to look at it, is that when it happened in 2012 there weren't any negative consequences, but when it happened in 2016 it was a disaster for the country. And that's a good reason.
Let's say there's a stretch of road where the speed limit is 75 MPH.
You drive through it at 105 MPH. The visibility is excellent, the road is dry and you're paying attention. The entirety of the consequences turn out to be that you used some gasoline inefficiently (so you'll be paying a little extra for that) plus you got home from your roadtrip a little earlier. Later, someone works out that you must have broken the speed limit.
And so we're discussing whether or not we can slap you with a speeding fine. Should we? Maybe, maybe not. That's the big question of the Obama presidency. And it's really hard to care. So America got stuck with Yet Another shitty Republicrat, resulting in another fucking 8 years of conservative status quo.
Then later someone else is also on that stretch of road going 105 MPH. But they're drunk and doing it in the dark without their headlights on. They slam into a schoolbus full of retarded 4 year old children, each of who happens to be hugging a puppy at the time of the collision. Some of the debris slams into some other cars too. The upshot is that 40 retarded 4 year olds, 40 puppies, a nun, Tom Hanks, Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos, Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna, Beyonce and some other people like that, the newly-grown clones of Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin, Chesley Sullenberger and oh, let's just throw in a bunch more random childen, all slowly burn to death while a hundred million Americans watch them die on TV and hear them screaming in agony. Oh yeah, and the original copy of the Constitution just happened to be getting transported at that moment and was also destroyed in the fire, along with a bunch of American flags and bibles and the master recordings of every Lynyrd Skynyrd album. And it happened under a bridge and caused structural damage that will cost $30 million to repair. And the person who caused the problem just happens to survive; he's the only person within 300 yards who didn't slowly burn to death.
Now we're discussion whether or not a speeding ticket should be issued to that person. This is the question of the Trump presidency. For whatever reason, people seem to care more about that act of speeding, and America is begging for a return to being ruled by shitty Republicrats because now we realize that everything can be so much worse. when you put a semi-incompetent, embarrassing, corrupt, anti-American, evil person in charge.
That's what we're witnessing, people, make no mistake about it. The downfall of Zuckerbook is a foregone conclusion, it's on trajectory already, and nothing is going to stop it now; Zuckerbook has committed it's sins, and now they'll have to pay the price: being dismantled, piece by piece, and nothing of value was lost. Do yourselves a favor and flee the sinking Zuckership now.
OK, I'm honestly a bit confused here.
Not making a political statement, but hasn't Facebook been selling data in violation of their own policies for the last few years?
I realize how one could potentially perceive this as unfair play during the election, but by Facebook's own admission, it doesn't really seem to be much different that the rest of the data sharing going on.
Check your premises.
Given that the Russians are not about one party winning, but about divisiveness, I have to think that most posts like this these days are themselves coming out of Russian Troll Farms.
Hate to break it to you, but the Russian troll farms? They don't really exist. What you're seeing is the mental breakdown of Democrats as they realize that the so-called "blue wave" doesn't exist and that their attempts to alter reality by pretending Trump is less popular than he really is - aren't working. Just look at people like AmiMojo or PopeRatzo. The Democrats have legitimately lost their minds and truly believe that Trump is going to jail soon, despite all facts to the contrary.
So why are you worried about them, then? You're that worried about whether or not someone violated Facebook's ToS, but not worried about our lack of privacy and how much Facebook can manipulate the public? Can you explain why?
Hate to admit it, but you are right. The democrats have lost their fucking minds since 2016. Batshit crazy.