The Cambridge Analytica Scandal – Facebook proved to us that the largest social network, in addition to being a huge advertising platform that has access to over two billion users, is also a purely commercial platform.
At the beginning of the social network, many were the ones who spent a lot of time trying to understand how Facebook is making money and managing to provide its services for free.
It is certain that it has never been and will not be free.
In a previous publication we mentioned why Facebook will it has to pay us to use its platform.
So far, Facebook has managed to convince us that it has discovered a way of earning money without harming us. He even documents his rhetoric with dozens of pages devoted to guides or security settings, as well as safety tests.
Because we like to believe in miracles, the rhetoric of the company is enough to reassure us.
With her scandal Cambridge Analytica However, this rhetoric went for a walk.
In the best case, all this happened to the company's ignorance, which puts us in thoughts, because if we do, we offer generously our data to irrelevant technologists.
In the worst case, the social network is complicit in the "leak" of data in Cambridge Analytica.
The supply is unlimited access on the accounts of 50 million Facebook users with the company fully aware it is a problem, and a 180-degree turn in the logic of "earn from advertising."
Finally what is the social network? are the people doing what is possible to get their data? a huge business, worried about the shareholders, the council, the fines that come when it violates the law?
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The answer is probably yes at all, but Facebook is not afraid of losing money. The worst is to accept that to date governments are powerless against companies like Facebook.
Not new: Twitter, Alibaba, Amazon, Google and Microsoft collect data and use it for profit.
But Facebook's data is unique and the same seems to be the way they are used.
The social network is a closed economy based on data collection. Amazon is trying to sell us something or to say it better trying to sell us everything. So did Alibaba.
Facebook, on the other hand, does not know exactly what it does because we are the product.
Δεν μπορούμε να γνωρίζουμε την τεχνολογία που χρησιμοποιεί το Facebook, επειδή είναι κλειδωμένη κάτω από τεράστια οικονομικά-εμπορικά μυστικά. Είναι πολύ περίπλοκη για να την καταλάβουν οι πολιτικοί και την υπερασπίζονται καλύτεροι δικηγterms από αυτούς που μπορεί να αντέξει κάθε Υπουργείο Δικαιοσύνης.
Even if you are thinking of deleting him account The company has and will not stop collecting data from you through third parties.
The only way to tackle Facebook with all the above is to forget that it's a company, and treat it as a country, according to TNW.
We need a revolt against the misuse of our personal information. We need politicians and business leaders to push Facebook for more democracy.
