"Facebook has been reeling from a series of privacy scandals, set off by revelations in March that a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, improperly used Facebook data to build tools that aided President Trump’s 2016 campaign. "
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"For years, Facebook gave some of the world’s largest technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it has disclosed, effectively exempting those business partners from its usual privacy rules."
In the Niagra of betrayal was Cambridge Analytica the one poisonous drop? Or was it so small by comparison that it fell through the cracks?
Are there any knights in shining armor here? Or were they all in the moral septic tank business, every man jack?
Once this vast trove of personal information is collected and collated, it will of course be sold, else what is the point? It will also be stolen. By Russia, China and whoever else.
They spied on all of us for -- money! Well I guess that makes it ok. What's not ok is to rear up in righteous dudgeon and point the accusing finger at the unwashed public for their supposed moral failings.
Back in the day you had the City, with a million homes and secrets each protected by its own lock. To burgle the City you had to pick a million locks. Now the data is behind a server with one ginormous lock. You only have to burgle one lock. No wait, they'll sell it to you.
