>Cook County is suing Facebook and Cambridge Analytica for allegedly violating an Illinois fraud law after reports that the political consulting firm used ill-gotten Facebook data in an effort to influence voter behavior.
>Cambridge Analytica, which was hired by President Donald Trump’s campaign, deceived the millions of Illinois Facebook users whose information it collected, alleges the lawsuit, filed Friday in Cook County Circuit Court. And Facebook failed to protect its users’ privacy and misrepresented how their data would be used, the lawsuit says.
>“(Facebook) sought to keep developers building on its platform and provide companies with all the tools they need to influence and manipulate user behavior,” the suit says. “That’s because Facebook is not a social media company; it is the largest data mining operation in existence.”
>The lawsuit joins others brought against the social media giant and Cambridge Analytica in response to a report from The New York Times and The Observer of London earlier this month. The newspapers reported that Cambridge Analytica, whose U.K.-based parent SCL Group was also named in Cook County’s suit, gained access to private information of more than 50 million Facebook users, including their profiles, locations and what they like. The firm claimed its tools could analyze voters’ personalities and influence their behavior with targeted messages.
>At least five lawsuits have been filed in federal court in Northern California over the alleged misuse of user data. Those include a suit from a Facebook shareholder who is seeking class-action status, claiming he and other company shareholders have suffered losses and damages since the Cambridge Analytica news was first reported, and another from a woman seeking class-action status over Facebook and Cambridge Analytica’s alleged improper data collection.
>The Federal Trade Commission on Monday confirmed that it has opened an investigation into Facebook’s data practices, and U.K. investigators reportedly raided Cambridge Analytica’s offices in London late last week.
>Cambridge Analytica improperly acquired the information, Facebook has said, but it didn’t steal the data. Users allowed the maker of a personality quiz app to take the data. About 270,000 people took the quiz several years ago, and the app-maker was able to scrape data from their Facebook friends. He then provided the data to Cambridge Analytica.
>Still, Facebook told its users that their personal data would be protected, according to the Cook County lawsuit. It engaged in unfair and deceptive conduct when it allowed a third party to collect its users’ data, the suit alleges.
>The lawsuit, filed by Cook County State’s Attorney Kimberly Foxx on behalf of the people of Illinois, brings one count each against Facebook and Cambridge Analytica for allegedly violating the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act.
>The suit asks that both companies be fined $50,000 for each violation of the law and that Cambridge Analytica be fined an additional $10,000 for each day a violation affecting an Illinois resident age 65 or older has existed.
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Data theft and manipulation and all the other shit that has gone for years was okay but when a company works for Trump it is an outrage.
Hippocracy.
Also fuck cancerbook. I never used it to beginn with for obvious reasons.
Maybe I should start getting rid of my tracks on the net altogether.
Hippocracy.
Also fuck cancerbook. I never used it to beginn with for obvious reasons.
Maybe I should start getting rid of my tracks on the net altogether.
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>>133093
>Is the end dawning for Facebook?
I hope so, but it looks more like they want to go after Cambridge Analytica more than FB. Unless the each violation of the law means that FB will be fined $50,000 for every user it has (or users that did a quiz one time).
>Also worth mention that the flaw apparently also gave access to the data of friends of friends (according to reporting in Norway). The "flaw" was discovered in 2013.
But I think they will have a hard time finding Cambridge Analytica guilty. People who did a quiz accepted on behalf of their friends (and friends of friends) that the quiz maker could access their data. So the offender is the user that didn't ask their friends if it was okay that he/she granted access on their behalf (even thou there is no way to opt-out of that behaviour).
But I hope FB dies, the sad thing is that Zuckerberg have become rich and I don't think he would care. And it don't look like they are going after him personally.
>Is the end dawning for Facebook?
I hope so, but it looks more like they want to go after Cambridge Analytica more than FB. Unless the each violation of the law means that FB will be fined $50,000 for every user it has (or users that did a quiz one time).
>Also worth mention that the flaw apparently also gave access to the data of friends of friends (according to reporting in Norway). The "flaw" was discovered in 2013.
But I think they will have a hard time finding Cambridge Analytica guilty. People who did a quiz accepted on behalf of their friends (and friends of friends) that the quiz maker could access their data. So the offender is the user that didn't ask their friends if it was okay that he/she granted access on their behalf (even thou there is no way to opt-out of that behaviour).
But I hope FB dies, the sad thing is that Zuckerberg have become rich and I don't think he would care. And it don't look like they are going after him personally.
>>133093
By failing to press charges against other certain parties doing the same thing, it can be argued that they are ‘allowing’ this illegal usage to occur. This inaction of past breach should directly affect the outcome of this 'next' breach. ?
I really don't know how they're gonna argue this one and I don't see how anyone could try to tie up CAnalytica with legal fees.
By failing to press charges against other certain parties doing the same thing, it can be argued that they are ‘allowing’ this illegal usage to occur. This inaction of past breach should directly affect the outcome of this 'next' breach. ?
I really don't know how they're gonna argue this one and I don't see how anyone could try to tie up CAnalytica with legal fees.
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