Not exact matches
Rather, it was an unethical action by a researcher, who
gained access to the
data legitimately but violated the terms of
access by transferring it
to third
parties, as well as by Cambridge, which allegedly lied when, in 2015, it told Facebook it had deleted all copies of the
data.
This change was made
to ensure a third -
party was not able
to access a user's friends»
data without
gaining permission first.
With a little coding know - how, you could use this script
to repeatedly mangle all your Facebook posts over a period of several months,
to make the bulk of Facebook's
data on you virtually unusable (though it doesn't do anything for the
data that's already been scraped by third -
parties, like the kind Cambridge Analytica allegedly
gained access to).
There's also the fact that third -
party apps can
gain access to this
data and, as we've learned, sell it.
With Cambridge Analytica, a third
party gained access to user
data and then gave or sold it
to the
data analytics company; there are other examples of third -
party apps selling Facebook
data to data brokers, which can then reuse it on Facebook and elsewhere.
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This process has required this software
to gain access to the
data through restoration of the content, typically by 3rd
party specialists.
Third
parties could easily
gain access to user information by mining for raw user
data on the Dark Web and then feeding random phone numbers and email addresses into Facebook's search engine.
The
data was given
to Cambridge Analytica by Aleksandr Kogan, a professor at Cambridge University, who legitimately
gained access to Facebook users» personal
data, but then broke the rules by passing it along
to a third
party.
Jonathan Albright, a research director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, said that while he welcomed Zuckerberg's explanation of how Cambridge Analytica
gained access to the
data in question, he was disappointed that the CEO did not address why Facebook enabled so much third -
party access to its users» personal information for so many years.
Authorities will likely want
to know how much information Facebook provides
to outside app developers and what role, if any, the social network has in enabling unauthorized third
parties to gain access to that
data, experts say.
The FTC announcement came less than a week after Equifax revealed that an unknown
party had
gained access to names, addresses, Social Security Numbers and other
data belonging
to nearly half the U.S. population.
Facebook has suggested that, at the time Kogan
gained access to the
data of 270,000 users, Facebook's settings allowed third
parties to harvest everything from users and their friends, and thus there was no violation of the decree.
is essentially an admission,» that Facebook allowed
parties to improperly
gain access to private user
data.
Instagram is cracking down on third -
party apps by restricting their
access to user
data amid the fallout following claims that Cambridge Analytica inappropriately
gained access to the Facebook
data...
Within the settings you can choose
to have some specific third -
party fitness services
gain access to your
data to share them.
Data Providers are third party vendors under this agreement and are entitled to enforce this agreement by legal proceeding or otherwise against any person that gains access to or uses data other than as this agreement stipula
Data Providers are third
party vendors under this agreement and are entitled
to enforce this agreement by legal proceeding or otherwise against any person that
gains access to or uses
data other than as this agreement stipula
data other than as this agreement stipulates.