Millions of personal data belonging to people across the globe from Facebook was gathered and then allegedly used by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica for politcal purpses, notably election influence. Apartb from the nose-diving market value of Facebook, key questions have arisen: Did Facebook do enough to prevent the data breach? Is this a new low for privacy? Is this a new low for the democratic process? Should Facebook be regulated like any other business? And should Mark Zukerberg step down or shutter the social network? Interesting questions begging for anwers!
I thought as much on this issue. It is a criminal offence. Facebook should be regulated and the founder need to answer serious questions regarding his uncivilized attitude.
Academics have been warning for this for years. The problem is far from limited to Facebook as well. Wolfram developed a tool a few years back to expose how much you're actually opening up to third parties on Facebook. The concern on privacy is also underlying the new EU GDPR. As such, I wouldn't consider it as a new new low, but rather as a moment of exposure (and many more of these breaches are to be expected).
I guess that the outcomes of such study are significantly inaccurate because huge amounts of FB data are fake!!! Probably, there are millions of fake profiles in the FB. To me, the facebook posts are like talking loud in a crowded street. Therefore, I don't consider such posts as a private issue.
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