If you're worried about your privacy, you don't put your life on Facebook, or anywhere else that the internet has a connection to. I don't understand why people feel the need to share everything with everyone.
To answer the question, though, I think this breach is like all other breaches and all the rest of them to come. Data protectors are always going to be on the back foot, fighting off more and more breaches. The simple fact is that, as the amount of stored/shared data increases, so does the effort by the "bad guys" to access it.
What surprises me is that people are surprised. It's always been possible to scrape data from Facebook. For example, take a look at the built in Facebook data scraping that Wolfram Alpha used to have (before Facebook changed the API in 2015 to limit the data): http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/08/wolframalpha-personal-analytics-for-facebook
I could probably build an interesting graph of relationships on this forum by scraping post likes, awesomes and lols, since not only is the count visible but so is the name of each person that did each vote. But that would involve doing web stuff, and there's other things I'd much rather be doing (falling down a cliff, getting my foot bitten off by a shark, etc). 🙂
Due to the sensitive nature of the topic (as it tip toes around hardcore politics), I don't see much need to keep bringing it up. There's no breaking news (yet).
Due to the sensitive nature of the topic (as it tip toes around hardcore politics), I don't see much need to keep bringing it up. There's no breaking news (yet).
Well at least you were not the fun police on this thread for once Zenbane
