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Marcus Rouse
  • Created By : Marcus Rouse
  • Created Date : 2021-08-10 08:55:01
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Fixing Facebook's Spam, Stolen Content and Privacy Concerns

Facebook is one of the biggest online companies today and they are not trying hard enough to make their online company safe and enjoyable for its users. Some of the biggest and most easily fixed problems on Facebook are frequent spam, stolen content and privacy concerns. Facebook and the offenders using it keep getting get away with these things all because it makes them more money due to ad revenue.

Marcus Rouse
Marcus Rouse

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Hello Decision Maker,

 

The Facebook data privacy scandal centers around the collection of personally identifiable information of "up to 87 million people" by the political consulting and strategic communication firm Cambridge Analytica. That company--and others--were able to gain access to personal data of Facebook users due to the confluence of a variety of factors, broadly including inadequate safeguards against companies engaging in data harvesting, little to no oversight of developers by Facebook, developer abuse of the Facebook API, and users agreeing to overly broad terms and conditions. In the case of Cambridge Analytica, the company was able to harvest personally identifiable information through a personality quiz app called this is your digital life, based on the OCEAN personality model. Information gathered via this app is useful in building a "psychographic" profile of users (the OCEAN acronym stands for openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism). Adding the app to your Facebook account to take the quiz gives the creator of the app access to profile information and user history for the user taking the quiz, as well as all of the friends that the user has on Facebook. This data includes all of the items that users and their friends have liked on Facebook.