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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.
As much as I'd love to see a good witch burning, I think a more realistic expectation isn't fire or even jail time. It'll be a couple million dollar fine and a shameful finger wave.
If and until fines become greater than profits for corporations bad behavior, this cycle of crap will continue.
2016 was a really bad year for democracy. We were caught out, we thought social media wasn't a big deal and didn't notice Russia interfering.
We must fully investigate and learn everything we can about what happened. The chances of anyone significant going to jail are low and we aren't going to have a do-over now, but what is important is making sure it doesn't happen again. Not the same way, and not some different way with whatever new tech we come up with.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
They cling to this Russians! nonsense as a defense mechanism against facing the reality that their worldview has been rejected. There must be some higher reason to explain how a circus clown was able to defeat them when the entire deck stacked in their favor.