The scandal Cambridge Analytica – Facebook μας απέδειξε ότι το μεγαλύτερο κοινωνικό δίκτυο εκτός από μια τεράστια διαφημιστική πλατφόρμα που έχει πρόσβαση σε πάνω από δύο δισεκατομμύρια χρήστες, είναι και μια καθαρά εμπορική πλατφόρμα.
At the beginning of the social network, many people spent a lot of time trying to understand how it earns money Facebook and manages 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.
At best, this was all done without the knowledge of the company, which makes us think as if it is true we generously offer the data us to unrelated technologists.
In the worst case, the social network is complicit in the "leak" of data in Cambridge Analytica.
Providing unrestricted access to the accounts of 50 million Facebook users with full company awareness is a problem, and a 180-degree shift to the "I earn from advertising" logic.
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, the Google and Microsoft collect data and use it to make money.
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.
We can not know the technology that Facebook uses because it is locked under huge economic-trade secrets. It is very complicated for politicians to understand it and to defend better lawyers than those that can be enforced by any Ministry of Justice.
Even if you are thinking of deleting your 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 as well as business leaders to push for more democracy Facebook.
