Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Eleven Percent Can Become A Really, Really Big Number.

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It wasn't just Cambridge Analytica.

From the Guardian's latest under Paul Lewis' byline:

...Academic research from 2010, based on an analysis of 1,800 Facebooks apps, concluded that around 11% of third-party developers requested data belonging to friends of users.

If those figures were extrapolated, tens of thousands of apps, if not more, were likely to have systematically culled “private and personally identifiable” data belonging to hundreds of millions of users, (former Facebook platform operations manager Sandy) Parakilas said...



And, as Mr. Parakilas notes, Facebook, and its very small boss, turned a blind eye to pretty much all of it until 2014.

Why the change, then?

Well...

That is not entirely clear, but there is speculation that some of the data harvests had become so large that the book of faces folks may have come concerned that the biggest harvesters themselves would soon set up their own social networks.


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3 comments:

North Van's Grumps said...

Have the BC Liberals been using Chris Wylie's expertise to win elections here in British Columbia?

27 Feb 2017 ... Silvester — an assistant to former Liberal MP Keith Martin until 2011 — and co- founder president Zack Massingham registered the company in 2013. “I worked on (B.C. Liberal) Mike de Jong's leadership campaign as a data and technology guy,” said Massingham. “It was a small role in a great campaign ...

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Zack Massingham, Mike de Jong

the pivotal role played in the Brexit vote by the little company in what the Telegraph newspaper called a “provincial Canadian city.”

North Van's Grumps said...

And of Course The Tyee had it nailed down in January
https://thetyee.ca/News/2018/01/10/DeJong-Campign-Rejects-Online-Company/

RossK said...

NVG--

And then there was the good Mr. Stone and the case of the mirage memberships...


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