It doesn't matter what congress feigns understanding of, or whatever failure to comprehend they masquerade in front of the cameras.
Facebook is there to listen in on your private conversations, read your mail, build up evidence for who you talk to and associate with. To seem benign and trustworthy while all this takes place is part of the game.
There's this idea to scapegoat the mea culpa off onto faceless shadowy firms, but none of what happened would have ever been possible, if facebook hadn't conspired to log and sell the information it knew to be useful and powerful to begin with.
To invert the blame onto Cambridge Analytica is a mistake, when Facebook's data collection platform was designed to do everything it was used for from the start.
Anything some political consultancy may have done, Facebook was and is doing times a thousand, back then, yesterday, today and tomorrow. And the more time that goes by the worse it gets.
Facebook is there to listen in on your private conversations, read your mail, build up evidence for who you talk to and associate with. To seem benign and trustworthy while all this takes place is part of the game.
There's this idea to scapegoat the mea culpa off onto faceless shadowy firms, but none of what happened would have ever been possible, if facebook hadn't conspired to log and sell the information it knew to be useful and powerful to begin with.
To invert the blame onto Cambridge Analytica is a mistake, when Facebook's data collection platform was designed to do everything it was used for from the start.
Anything some political consultancy may have done, Facebook was and is doing times a thousand, back then, yesterday, today and tomorrow. And the more time that goes by the worse it gets.