{"id":1627,"date":"2018-12-22T08:27:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T07:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techrant.blog\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2022-12-11T17:27:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T16:27:23","slug":"facebook-sued-again-for-privacy-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techrant.blog\/facebook-sued-again-for-privacy-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Sued, Yet Again, For Privacy Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"center\">\n\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<!-- mobile banner -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:260px;height:50px\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4883052312808999\" data-ad-slot=\"5984838823\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large\"><p class=\"css-1ygdjhk e2kc3sl0\">The attorney general of the District of Columbia, Karl Racine, <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/oag.dc.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2018-12\/Facebook-Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sued Facebook<\/a> on Wednesday for allowing the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to harvest the private data of tens of millions of the social network\u2019s users.<\/p><p class=\"css-1ygdjhk e2kc3sl0\">\u201cFacebook failed to protect the privacy of its users and deceived them about who had access to their data and how it was used,\u201d Mr. Racine said in a statement.<\/p><p class=\"css-1ygdjhk e2kc3sl0\">Will Castleberry, Facebook\u2019s vice president of state and local public policy, said in a statement, \u201cWe\u2019re reviewing the complaint and look forward to continuing our discussions with attorneys general in D.C. and elsewhere.\u201d<\/p><cite>New York Times, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/19\/technology\/dc-sues-facebook-cambridge-analytica.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Read More<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/techrant.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/karl-racine.jpg\" alt=\"Kal Racine\" class=\"wp-image-1633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techrant.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/karl-racine.jpg 640w, https:\/\/techrant.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/karl-racine-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Karl Racine, Attorney General Columbia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Although Facebook has faced tons of Lawsuits, this is the worst case scenario. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Cambridge Analytica (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=4&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjxgMPHgLDfAhWGZlAKHfcnD20QFjADegQICxAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCambridge_Analytica&amp;usg=AOvVaw0tz5uH4M9-o3Lu7hvzx0c_\" target=\"_blank\">Cambridge Analytica<\/a> has been tied to Presidents Trump&#8217;s campaign. Consequently using said data to build Psychological Profiles of up to 87 million American Voters. <br>Lawsuit upon Lawsuit, Promising each time to do better, Facebook has continuously proven to be nontransparent with how they handle our data. Likewise, grossly unreliable at safeguarding it. One company having the data of 2.2 billion users is bad news. Especially as this company makes it&#8217;s money from advertisements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<!-- Mobile (260x100) -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:260px;height:100px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4883052312808999\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6839098374\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Previous Cases<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s indeed alarming the extraordinary power Facebook has assumed over the data of it&#8217;s numerous users. And it&#8217;s not just Cambridge Analytica. With reports coming in concerning data sharing agreements with Netflix and Spotify. Thus allowing them access to even Private messages. And further granting Microsoft&#8217;s search engine, Bing, to access user&#8217;s friend lists without consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well it doesn&#8217;t stop there. Amazon was also allowed to obtain users\u2019 contact information through their friends. And letting Yahoo view streams of friends\u2019 posts. All of this was despite public statements that it had stopped this type of sharing. I mean come on. There&#8217;s still been so many of this in the past. All ending with the usual Apology from Zuckerberg and a meagre fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<!-- Mobile (260x100) -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:260px;height:100px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4883052312808999\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6839098374\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>No amount of fining would fix this. Britain, for instance, already slammed Facebook with the maximum fine of $660,000. However, does $660,000 make a dent in the millions of dollars that roll into the company&#8217;s wallet each year? Regulators need to take action already. It&#8217;s gotten way out of hand. In fact, Facebook seems willing to share your data with whoever is willing to pay for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">Thoughts?&#8230;let me know in the comments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attorney general of the District of Columbia, Karl Racine, sued Facebook on Wednesday for allowing the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to harvest the private data of tens of millions of the social network\u2019s users. \u201cFacebook failed to protect the privacy of its users and deceived them about who had access to their data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[45,43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/techrant.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img1720facebook-2661207_960_720.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techrant.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techrant.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techrant.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techrant.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techrant.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techrant.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4156,"href":"https:\/\/techrant.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/4156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techrant.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techrant.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techrant.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techrant.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}