Scariest of all is that people like you don’t even seem to care. It’s totally OK to violate privacy, permit foreign actors to undermine elections, as long you make a ton of money.
Scariest of all is that people like you don’t even seem to care. It’s totally OK to violate privacy, permit foreign actors to undermine elections, as long you make a ton of money.
Everything else is possible, although not using youtube can be pretty detrimental, depending on how you use it.
Let's look at Cambridge Analytica?
• Not proven anything they did actually affected anything. The assumption it did relies on a lot of controversial beliefs about human nature.
• Data was obtained through a middleman who violated his own agreements with Facebook - an academic who has mysteriously not been held to account for this behaviour. Somehow it's all Facebook's fault.
• They restricted data access to apps anyway. Not much more they can do beyond terminate all API access to Facebook data, which would just get them in trouble of a different kind.
There's nothing more Facebook can do here. Zuck's biggest mistake was not to go in all guns blazing in defence of the company and adopt a head-hanging mea culpa type attitude, which allowed his political enemies to frame it as a scandal when it simply wasn't.
Likewise, "election interference". It's all nonsense. A few hundred thousand spent on ads for both parties by Russians? A whole lot of innuendo and lies from the press? Indeed the entire assumption that Russians = Russia = the Kremlin is absurd to begin with. Zuck should have very forcefully and bombastically slapped down this kind of talk. He failed to face down the anti-Trump mob and now the mob failed again to get Trump impeached, they're coming for him instead.
Btw: friends don’t let friends do Facebook.