Reply to post: @SVV Re: This is what could really do Zuckwit and his company serious harm

Fleeing Facebook app users realise what they agreed to in apps years ago – total slurpage

Ian Michael Gumby
Mushroom

@SVV Re: This is what could really do Zuckwit and his company serious harm

The data slurp included Facebook app users' interactions with others who are not on Facebook – meaning people who never gave the Social Network™ permission for anything are probably profiled in its data troves anyway.

To your point, yes this could do FB serious harm. If the lawyers can find a lead plaintiff. In the US as well as around the world.

Keep in mind, the fact that FB also has java scripts running on many news sites slurping details about you. This is quasi grey space because you may have allowed your data to be slurped by these sites under the T's and C's of those sites.

This is most likely why Zuck is trying to go all apologetic because they just ended up in a world of hurt.

How would you, as a non user of FB find out what they have slurped about you?

And every company that uses FB scripts will also become suspect.

Its a huge potential mess...

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