No wonder facebook's stock tanked today.

[Egnever]

But two former FTC officials said that Facebook’s allowing the psychologist to take so much data about a person’s friends could constitute a violation of a 2011 consent decree with the agency.

Under that agreement, Facebook is required to notify and get explicit permissions from users before data about them is shared beyond the privacy settings that they have established. The fines for breaking the consent decree are $40,000 per violation, which could add up to billions of dollars if the estimated 50 million users whose data was taken by Cambridge were taken into account. The FTC declined to comment

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebooks-rules-for-accessing-user-data-lured-more-than-just-cambridge-analytica/2018/03/19/31f6979c-658e-43d6-a71f-afdd8bf1308b_story.html?utm_term=.52f5567945bf

If my math is right that could be a fine of 2 trillion dollars!

Holy cow Batman!

[TeamPooka]

1. The FTC should make FaceBook pay the 40K to each person who data was stolen.

[StarryNite]

2. How can you find out if your data was stolen?

[TeamPooka]

3. no idea

[SonofDonald]

4. I read you participated in some kind of survey

And that was it, they had you and all your friends.

I read the name of the survey elsewhere but can't recall its title now, it will all come out soon I'd think.

[janterry]

7. It was on mturk

I don't remember how they named the survey - but one of the accounts was Global Science Research (requesters can name their account what they want). He had several accounts (actually, one is still active - though nothing has been posted by them in eons).

You had to download an app. Many people refused to do it (it violates mturk TOS) and reported it to Amazon
but it was a quick survey and there are thousands of workers on mturk.
So, many others did the survey

edited to add, I just saw the name on turkopticon:
Study on Interests & Well-Being

[janterry]

8. Here is what was said in the survey

In part two, we will ask you to give us permission to download some data from your Facebook. We will download (a) some of your demographic data, (b) your likes, (c) your friend’s list, (d) whether each of your friends knows one another, and (e) the likes of your friends and their demographics.

[TeamPooka]

9. All to find out they would be Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones.

or some other dumbass quiz

[PA Democrat]

12. "thisisyourdigitallife" app according the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/03/17/a-voter-profiling-firm-hired-by-trump-likely-grabbed-data-for-tens-of-millions-of-facebook-users/?utm_term=.03dc44dc3fae

[Egnever]

5. I can hardly wrap my head around a fine that large

Obviously they will never be fined that much right? That would be an insane judgement though....

[eShirl]

6. each instance

[Generic Brad]

18. But they are the ones who got duped into helping get Trump elected

The way I see it, they owe me at least $40,000.

[Hortensis]

20. They've endangered my children and grandchildren.

America owes them a proper return on their investment -- FB bankrupted and closed down.

[woundedkarma]

10. Trump Owns the FTC

How likely is it that he'll ever let this go past a slap on the wrist when the whole thing is part of why he's president?

Getting rid of the POS aside, our only hope would be he was too stupid to understand that this was part of why he's president. And maybe Zuckerberg will piss him off .. and Trump will get vengeful. LOL

[democratisphere]

11. fakebook is done!

flush twice.

[Raster]

13. Good! Farcebook deserves the flush!

[A HERETIC I AM]

14. Yeah. Twelve whole dollars off a $180 stock

Yup. Done

[democratisphere]

15. fakebook's product is tainted and the management is corrupt.

[A HERETIC I AM]

16. As long as it remains popular enough

To continue to attract advertisers, it isn’t going anywhere

[FarCenter]

17. The data wasn't stolen from facebook.

The professor wrote an app, facebook users ran the app and gave away their own data and their friend's data.

It was all compliant with the privacy policy in place at the time (2015, IIRC), and was all kosher until the professor gave the data to Cambridge Analytica. That action presumably was not compliant with the agreement between the professor and Facebook, but it might have just been one of these "click through" agreements which are probably not enforceable.

[Javaman]

19. do we get any of that money?

okay okay, I know the answer but I felt I had to ask anyway.

[Blue Owl]

21. Stick a fork in it

IT'S DONE.

[Johnny2X2X]

22. Delete Facebook now!

They are part of the machine that installed Trump into power.