3 days agoFacebook's permanent dilemmas for personal data
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Criticised of managing personal data to users, Facebook decided to limit opportunities to do some more detailed research on the platform, but this decision was not well received by some. Journalists and NGOs use this option to investigate. The social network announced this week the suspension of several engine functions [...]
Journalists and NGOs use this option to investigate.
The social network announced this week the suspension of several search engine functions “Graph Serch”, which allows, for example, a user to know who is a fan of a certain musical group or lives in a certain town.
Although this app enabled access only to public-show data by users, this tool, since the beginning of its introduction in 2014, was highly critical.
In the advanced version, it enabled, in fact, the easily access to a variety of data and user content, such as consent, comments, others, to open up the possibility of abuses, mainly at “stalking”, the fact to track individuals to then check them.
