Posted on 03/22/2018 5:41:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Germany is the latest country to demand answers from Facebook after it emerged data from 50 million users was used to inform targeted election campaigns. German Justice Minister Katharina Barley on Thursday called such methods “a danger to democracy.”
“The European Facebook management [team] must submit a comprehensive position on the scandal to the German government,” Barley told the Funke MedienGruppe on Thursday, demanding Facebook representatives visit her ministry in Berlin. […]
Barley’s comments came as pressure grew on Facebook from politicians on both sides of the Atlantic in the wake of a scandal involving British analysis firm Cambridge Analytica, which used personal data to issue targeted campaign material to voters during the 2016 US election, among others.
German data protection officers have long had Facebook and its associated Apps in their sights, particularly for the now-abandoned practice of collecting users’ friends data without their expressed consent. …
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“free service”
Absolutely correct. Their long-term plan in 2008/2009, was to build a database and rely upon yearly ‘rental’ or access to make the big-money.
The same gimmick is being done presently by the DNA-tests-for-cheap....they are banking your number results and expect in ten years that a large database exists, and someone will pay for access.
The T&C’s clearly state that, and more... FB actually owns the data the users enter. Are people so stupid they thought otherwise? That FB was providing this free service to help world peace?
The T&C’s clearly state that, and more... FB actually owns the data the users enter. Are people so stupid they thought otherwise? That FB was providing this free service to help world peace?
German Justice Minister demands Facebook explain how Republicans managed to buy all that data from Suckerburg using some researcher’s app. When asked about Obama’s purchase of the entire US social media population’s data from Facebook and Google (with their willing help), he replied, “That’s different!” and abruptly left the room.
The Germans are perfectly aware of this. Google Bertelsmann Arvato sometime.
All this sound and fury is for show.
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