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Facebook critics want regulation, investigation after data misuse
2018-03-18
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc faced new calls for regulation from within U.S. Congress and was hit with questions about personal data safeguards on Saturday after reports a political consultant gained inappropriate access to 50 million users’ data starting in 2014.

Facebook disclosed the issue in a blog post on Friday, hours before media reports that conservative-leaning Cambridge Analytica, a data company known for its work on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was given access to the data and may not have deleted it.
WTF? We may have helped the Trump campaign ?
The scrutiny presented a new threat to Facebook’s reputation, which was already under attack over Russians’ alleged use of Facebook tools to sway American voters before and after the 2016 U.S. elections.

"It’s clear these platforms can’t police themselves," Democratic U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar tweeted.

"They say ’trust us.’ Mark Zuckerberg needs to testify before Senate Judiciary," she added, referring to Facebook’s CEO and a committee she sits on.

Facebook said the root of the problem was that researchers and Cambridge Analytica lied to it and abused its policies, but critics on Saturday threw blame at Facebook as well, demanding answers on behalf of users and calling for new regulation.
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  I bailed on Facebook about 2 years ago.

Realized I was seeing nothing in terms of conservative information, threads, and posts...
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2018-03-18 19:38  

#9  It all seems ridiculously simple to me. If you don't like it, don't use Facebook.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-03-18 16:19  

#8  The thing is, this is what FaceBorg is there for.
Posted by: ed in texas   2018-03-18 13:59  

#7  Zuck was the only person Hillary had not blamed for her loss.

Y’all don’t think Facebook was not feeding information to her campaign, as well as altering algorithms to aid Democrats while hindering Republicans and conservatives? Of those of you who are on Facebook, who has not had problems over the past few years posting comments and links supportive of the right side of things? Because I have, and I work hard to be balanced and using confirmed sources.

The only reason this has come out is because it was a Trump-supporting company that got hold of information that was supposed to be restricted to left side of things.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-03-18 11:08  

#6  Wow, the media blows a fuse over Analytica getting access to a bunch of Facebook info.

I wish it had blown a fuse when Google and Facebook said they gave the same info to the Obama campaign for FREE.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2018-03-18 11:00  

#5  Zuck was the only person Hillary had not blamed for her loss.
(1) She doesn't understand the issues well enough to make a talking point out of them.
(2) She'd like some of his money.
(3) If it worked for Trump It could work for her.
Posted by: ed in texas   2018-03-18 09:47  

#4  Zuck was the only person Hillary had not blamed for her loss.

Give it time - her book tour's not over yet.
Posted by: Raj   2018-03-18 09:30  

#3  Zuck was the only person Hillary had not blamed for her loss.

Probably because she used up her quota of Anti-Semitic statements
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-03-18 07:51  

#2  It's the lack of control they have. Can't have the peasants deciding things for themselves.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309   2018-03-18 05:24  

#1  Zuck was the only person Hillary had not blamed for her loss.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-03-18 04:28  

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