RE: Facebook will not sell your data, according to a 2009 video interview of Mark Zuckerberg
Also - almost everything reported about the Cambridge Analytica Facebook ‘hacking’ controversy is wrong.
There are two key points to remember at this point:
1-None of what I just described involves ‘hacking’ Facebook or exploiting a bug. Instead, it all revolves around the use of a feature that Facebook provided to all developers and (at least) tens of thousands took advantage off.
2-The data collected was not internal Facebook data. It was data that developers accessed from the profiles of people who downloaded their apps (and their friends). Facebook has a lot more data on users than is publicly available and it has it for everyone who uses their platform. No-one but Facebook has access to that data. This is a point that almost all the journalists involved seem unable to grasp, instead they repeatedly equate ‘Facebook’s internal data’ to ‘data accessed from Facebook profiles using a third party app’. But these are VERY different things.
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Excellent clarification point and even more concerning re FB access and exploitation of personal data.
yes and there is a difference between what they have, what they let developers have access to and what they sell.
Makes sense and access if a function of how much they sell such data to developers.