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  1. FLOSS.social :mastodon_oops: (admin@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 16:57:48 UTC FLOSS.social :mastodon_oops: FLOSS.social :mastodon_oops:

    :facebook: ☣️ FLOSS.social was launched in the (now small) Mastodon signup wave at the end of March 2018, as a result of the #Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal.

    Since then, #Meta has shown little to no sincere interest in reforming their culture of abusing their users' human rights of privacy.

    As a result, there is no reason to suspect they'll be any different if they join the #Fediverse, and our instance will respond accordingly.

    #Project92

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal

    In conversation Monday, 19-Jun-2023 16:57:48 UTC from floss.social permalink

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      Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal
      In the 2010s, personal data belonging to millions of Facebook users was collected without their consent by British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, predominantly to be used for political advertising.The data was collected through an app called "This Is Your Digital Life", developed by data scientist Aleksandr Kogan and his company Global Science Research in 2013. The app consisted of a series of questions to build psychological profiles on users, and collected the personal data of the users’ Facebook friends via Facebook's Open Graph platform. The app harvested the data of up to 87 million Facebook profiles. Cambridge Analytica used the data to provide analytical assistance to the 2016 presidential campaigns of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. Cambridge Analytica was also widely accused of interfering with the Brexit referendum, although the official investigation recognised that the company was not involved "beyond some initial enquiries" and that "no significant breaches" took place.Information about the data misuse was disclosed in 2018 by Christopher Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica employee, in interviews with The Guardian and The New York Times...

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