Facebook and Privacy - fuhgeddaboudit!
M. Ariel Evans
CEO and co-founder of RiskQ - the #1 cyber risk quantification platform. Inventor, author, and Chairperson of Cyber Intelligence 4U - continuing education cybersecurity programs in conjunction with major Universities.
When it comes to privacy - Facebook needs to get a clue. You are only as strong as your weakest partner and in this case the political analysis firm Cambridge Analytica that worked on Facebook ads with President Donald Trump during his election campaign in 2016, where it provided details on American voters.
UK lawmakers called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Tuesday to give evidence related to the company's links to Cambridge. Specifically in regards to how companies acquire and hold on to user data from their site, and in particular about whether data had been taken without their consent. Facebook officials' answers have consistently understated this risk, and have been misleading. This is interesting since GDPR is effective in May and Facebook does seem to know how to even pronounce it - never mind understand it. Facebook is the data owner not Cambridge so they are front and center with GDRP.
It's one thing to be on facebook to be social and it is another for scheming, rotten, misleading companies like Cambridge to maniupulate the purpose of Facebook. Facebook needs to have partner governance in place and monitor how these firms are using their data. The unintented consequences of lack of oversight is coming home to roost and it isn't pretty. GDPR will smack these companies on the side of the head and it is about time.
Cyber - Privacy - AI - Compliance | Author & Speaker.
5 年Great article. Could not agree more.