UPDATE: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will audit thousands of apps after breach of trust

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Source: Washington Post

Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said Facebook will audit thousands of apps in response to the “breach of trust” created by Cambridge Analytica — the chief executive's first comments since a crisis erupted Friday over data siphoned by the political marketing firm used by the Trump campaign.

In a post on his personal Facebook page, Zuckerberg said the company would investigate thousands of apps that used large amounts of data at the time. He said that Facebook will give users easier access to tools to manage how their data is being used and shared, and will further restrict developers' access to data to prevent abuse.

“I started Facebook, and at the end of the day I'm responsible for what happens on our platform,” he said. “. . . While this specific issue involving Cambridge Analytica should no longer happen with new apps today, that doesn't change what happened in the past. We will learn from this experience to secure our platform further and make our community safer for everyone going forward.”

Specifically he said the company will restrict the data that third-party developers can access to names, profile photos and email addresses, and will require developers to sign a contract before being allowed to ask Facebook users for rights to their posts. The company will post a new feature on the top of every Facebook user’s news feed with a list of the apps they have used and an easy way to revoke the app’s access. The latter feature already exists in privacy settings, but Zuckerberg is promising to give it more prominence on the site.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/03/21/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-in-first-response-to-cambridge-analytica-revelations-says-company-will-audit-thousands-of-apps/?utm_term=.90c3738a3fbc

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Original Full Title: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, in first response to Cambridge Analytica revelations, says company will audit thousands of apps

Original story -

The chief executive committed to fixing the breach of trust between the social media giant and its users. Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on his personal Facebook page that the company will give users new tools to see how their data is being used and shared. Facebook added that it will further restrict developers access to data to prevent abuse.

This is a developing story. It will be updated.

[HopeAgain]

1. F*ck off Zuck

"We're soooo sorry now we've been caught..."

[titaniumsalute]

2. BullllllSHIT! He doesn't give two shits about data security or the FB users

All fluff. If he cared it would have been prevented in the first place. Plus he wouldn't have been selling ad time to the shady Russians to begin with last year. He's just a greedy fucking anti-American pig.

[Raster]

3. Zuckster at Farcebook says what?

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. Fuckerberg et al knew about all this at least by 2015. Only now that Facebook tanked on

the stock market is he reluctantly crawling out of the shadows.

[Leghorn21]

5. Oh and heres MY first response to Zuckerbergs revelation!!

...Well damn, how do you say “Eat shit and die” in Russian - ?

[Botany]

7. съешьте дерьмо и умрите

n/t

[Leghorn21]

9. Ah, merci, Botany, I shall save this and post it in many many places!!

Spasiba, mon ami(e)!!

[Botany]

6. Dear Mark,

Eat shit and die. The Trump campaign had people who were facebook employees
working full time at Trump's HQ and getting data and information from Cambridge
Analytica and wikileaks and they helped to weaponize that data/information for
the Trump campaign. Facebook was also being used by the Russians to data mine
information on Americans for Cambridge Analytica.

BTW you cashed the checks too.

[MontanaMama]

8. The tech giant says

they didn't know about what CA was doing? Either Zuckerberg is lying or his company is inept or both.

[Red Pest]

10. Meh

My wife and I have never used Facebook and never intend to use it. We always felt that there was a strong likelihood that the loss of privacy was too great a risk. Whenever there is a choice between money and anything else, entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg will always choose money.

[SergeStorms]

12. I started an account about 5 years ago.....

the second time I logged in there were over 100 people who wanted to be "my friends", only about 5 of whom I actually knew. I decided right then that Facebook was not for me, because I didn't want to be besieged with that crap every time I logged on. And before the Facebook "fans" tell me I can filter people out, and keep people from seeing my information, I never believed that for a moment. I deactivated my account (because I guess you can't really ever delete your information) and haven't logged back on since.

Facebook THIS, Zuckerberg!

[BigmanPigman]

16. Same with me, my 83 year old

parents, sister and brother in law, and their college age kid. I was raised to be skeptical (like the CA guy Wylie said on one of the videos this weekend). He doesn't not distrust people bit he believes "a healthy dose of skepticism is the best way to go through life".

[sarge43]

11. As the horse's ass disappears over the horizon,

"we'll look into closing the barn door."

[Liberalhammer]

13. Once I realized I was the product they are selling

I deleted my account.

[poboy2]

14. Facebook and Cambridge Analytica worked side by side at a Trump campaign office in San Antonio

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica worked side by side at a Trump campaign office in San Antonio
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210388760

[ffr]

15. Fb has lost $50b in value in the passed two days.

Facebook, Cambridge Analytica sued in U.S. by users over data harvesting
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cambridge-analytica-lawsuits/facebook-cambridge-analytica-sued-in-u-s-by-users-over-data-harvesting-idUSKBN1GX1XK

Proof that illegal activity for any company only takes notice once money is involved.

Their problems have just started.

[DeminPennswoods]

17. He can't have it both ways

If he allows users to restrict data and/or restricts use of the data, Facebook won't be attractive to developers or advertizers. If that happens, it doesn't make money.

The only way to keep making money is to keep selling Facebook's "product", it's users and their personal info.

[LeftInTX]

18. Their apps could go the "normal route" and have a bunch of ads.

[elmac]

19. too little, too late

Facebook, like the other internet monopolies, are all about feeding the wall street banksters, they are as useless as the banksters, don't make or produce a thing, worthless piece of shit.

[dalton99a]

20. "I don't know why they trust me - dumb fucks"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-facebook

[LiberalFighter]

21. I do hope FB loses even more.

[summer_in_TX]

23. They get away with things because they aren't a media company.

They need to be regulated. Does anyone trust them to police themselves? I don't think so.

[Yavin4]

24. Apple thoroughly reviews all applications in their App Strore

Why can't Facebook do the same?

[C_U_L8R]

26. Same for their advertisers and the advertising they run

As they say, you are the company you keep. Broadcast and print media often curate who they'll accept as advertisers and what they can run. Maybe Facebook should wise up and be more selective.

[Drahthaardogs]

25. Jail the bastard

Fuck him

[Egnever]

27. the subtext here is

We never gave a crap about what they were doing with your data before...we will now trust us.

[Pobeka]

29. The user data is FB's *asset*. You don't mindlessly allow apps take 50MM user profiles.

Think about it -- the user database is *the* tangible asset value of FB. You have attorney's, sysadmins, etc hired to protect that data. You don't just let it out of your hands, unless someone pays for it contractually.

At best Zuckerberg is being disingenuous, but I think he's flat out lying.

[LovingA2andMI]

30. Bullshit...

F**k Facebook, F**k Zuckerberg!

[Hugin]

31. Still slamming that barn door, eh?

Cool story, bro.