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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica hit with First State Lawsuit

posted by mrpg on Monday March 26 2018, @05:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the bring-popcorn dept.

MrPlow writes:

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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are already dealing with numerous private lawsuits over non-consensual data sharing, but they now have to grapple with a state-level lawsuit. Illinois' Cook County has filed a lawsuit against both companies accusing them of violating the state's Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Cambridge Analytica allegedly broke the law by misrepresenting its "thisisyourdigitallife" app as an academic research tool when it was really meant to harvest personal data against Facebook's agreements. Facebook, meanwhile, was accused of falsely promising to protect user data and doing nothing to stop Cambridge Analytica for years after learning of its behavior.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday March 26 2018, @07:53PM (2 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Monday March 26 2018, @07:53PM (#658619) Homepage Journal

    To really truly lay your soul bare you need to correlate your behavior among several different websites.

    I expect I'm the only person on the entire planet who hangs out at Kr5ddit, Soylent News, Facebook, Gmail and Google News.

    That's just five websites yet it is trivial to start from there then identify me when I visit other sites.

    This problem cannot be completely solved until ads are no longer served by third-party servers. I'm completely cool with advertising - except when it tracks me.

    But there really are some ad services that integrate into your web application so documents get all their resources from a single hostname.

    However you can go quite a long way towards claiming at least a symbolic shred of privacy by putting the following two lines in your hosts file:

          127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com

          127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com

    If you don't know what a hosts file is, just as a closeted gay Republican politician to set it up for you.

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @08:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @08:44PM (#658647)

    If you don't know what a hosts file is, just as a closeted gay Republican politician to set it up for you.

    Can you be a bit more specific? I don't want to have to make dozens and dozens of phone calls until I find the gay Republican politician who actually knows something about technology. Talk about finding a needle in a haystack.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @10:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @10:16AM (#658916)

    Hosts is a good tool and another one is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy/ [mozilla.org]

    They coexist nicely and while the former is system wide blacklist, the latter is browser only whitelist (where a lot of time is spent tho).

    Some expert said that Trump would not be president today if it wasn't for social media analytics.