Wasn't this already known though? There was an undiscovered bug that allowed organizations access greater than they were supposed to have, I feel like it's beating a dead horse by this point.
2. The article describes the Cambridge Analytica database in particular being available "to verified researchers" but someone threw credentials onto GitHub where anyone could have borrowed them
>Like other quiz apps, it requested consent to access the user’s profile (friends’ data was not collected)
If we want our industry to take privacy seriously, we need people to take a principled stand. Making them aware of, and outraged over, flagrant violations of your privacy, and trust, is the easiest way to do that.
We talk at the phone, we chat, we take pictures together
If you don't mind about your privacy you're probably hurting someone else's
But why would the government intervene in a private decision that citizens have made?
people and washington are bemoaning what happens at Google, Facebook, and the like, yet totally ignoring all the information readily available to the public for anyone to take from government itself.
Example, if you know a street address or owner's name in Cobb County Georgia will allow you to search. The amount of information available there is and the type is far more dangerous than what was discovered via a facebook quiz.