So Facebook sat on the sweep of 50 million of its customers in a huge data breech .. and reported it TWO years later .. niiiiccceeeee.
From: http://theantimedia.org/facebook-data-harvesting/
The "... Robert Mercer-funded company exploited Facebook to harvest the personal information of around 50 million Americans without permission—the social media giant’s “largest-ever data breach.”
According to the Observer—which cites company documents and former employees—Cambridge Analytica “used personal information taken without authorization in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual U.S. voters, in order to target them with personalized political advertisements.” .."
Edward Snowden rightly comments:
"Facebook makes their money by exploiting and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions, far beyond the scant details you voluntarily post. They are not victims. They are accomplices." .. "Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as "surveillance companies." Their rebranding as "social media" is the most successful deception since the Department of War became the Department of Defense."
“Facebook clearly can’t handle the monster it created, nor does it seem particularly interested in trying,” concluded the Huffington Post‘s Ashley Feinberg.
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