Just checking something I haven't understood.
If I've set my profile to be private, i.e. you can't see anything unless you're actually connected to me, then could my profile data still have been shared with Cambridge Analystica if a friend of mine that I am connected to had taken this 'personality test'; is that what's happened?
Yes.
Go to Settings - Apps - Apps others use
In there you can choose to a certain extent what information those connected to you can share via Apps (such as those personality test ones used by CA and co. designed to extract information not just from that user but all their contacts too).
Private means nothing more than you saying what shared data should be displayed via FB own web/app interface.
Oh...
and I'm waiting for the next movie...
The Social Network 2
where Zuck and others get banged up for gross negligence of data protection laws in multiple jurisdictions and for conspiracy to screw up and violate electoral law also in multiple jurisdictions.
More light reading for Junkyard: https://www.hannity.com/media-room/facebook-fail-obama-campaign-sucked-private-user-data-during-2012-election
5thelephant, could you explain why you think that's comparable, or disturbing?
5th; that's old news and Hannity is a well known sh*tb*g.
Do you have anything relevant to say?
I wonder how much money FB will be losing over people suddenly restricting data collection settings or reducing or boycotting FB use. There were reports that share prices dropped 10% at one point yesterday but this also be hitting their cash cow hard.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43486054
https://twitter.com/rosscolquhoun/status/976434294313963520
Defintely nothing to see here
(thats CAs CEO Nix & the russsian ambassador who just did a 1hr press conference mocking the UKs skirpal investogation)
Picture take 2 days after wikileaks dumped Hillarys emails at the start fo DNC convention
meanwhile
https://twitter.com/jonsnowC4/status/976208719020220418
