Kogan and Cambridge Analytica also did things that I would consider wrong, but that doesn't let FB off the hook.
Kogan and Cambridge Analytica also did things that I would consider wrong, but that doesn't let FB off the hook.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/19/cambridge-an...
FB might not reasonably be expected to know about this, but the company still turned a blind eye to CA's abuse of user data - which seems a strange thing to do when this kind of abuse is illegal in many jurisdictions.
My suspicion has always been that FB's primary purpose comes from the political value of data harvesting, user monitoring, and voter influence. IMO there's always been a shadiness about the way FB operates, and it's certainly not a company I would trust with any non-trivial personal details.
They already have the data, other than suing, what's possible here?
They could have sued the developer in court to send a message to other bad parties.
They could have notified the users that their data was used improperly.