Our data leaks all over the place. It even leaks within companies and they have no idea where it’s going. This is an illegal way to engineer platforms. Platforms that fail to enable #DataRights must be rebuilt. It was pure hubris to design them otherwise. theintercept.com/2022/09/07/fac…
No one at Facebook knows what happens to your data. You can see why paying mega fines and settlements is better for Zuckerberg’s business than re-building Facebook from scratch. You can see why he’d rather retire his essentially unlawful apps and focus on something else entirely.
This problem is industry-wide. Data brokers trading in sensitive information admit they have no idea where they got it. They simply won’t care unless forced to. And the penalties need to be more than the cost of doing business and PR hits. #DataRights
https://twitter.com/MindingPrivacy/status/1567519871285530625
And the chance of this Congress passing fundamental #DataRights with the #ADPPA bill have fallen to nil. Americans must forgo the most basic protections for yet another cycle. Meanwhile, the mass data abuses continue unabated, barely enforced, usually settled without guilt.
More coverage on the fallout from the most recent Cambridge Analytica lawsuit discovery materials that reflect on the recklessness that typified the “terrifying” engineering culture at Facebook. vice.com/en/article/qjk…
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