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0 pointshashkb8y ago0 comments

You're downvoted because you're technically not correct.

The case is more like the bank manager allowing the robber into the vault, with full knowledge that the robber wants to and could easily make off with all the valuables, then asking the robber to please not do that before heading back to work, leaving the thief unattended in the vault.

Edit: it's a breach of contract, maybe; but not a "data breach" which I think everyone understands to be more like the case where the vault is forcibly broken into.

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cryptoz8y ago· 2 in thread

I was completely technically correct. It's a data breach. Plain and simple.

> A data breach is a security incident in which sensitive, protected or confidential data is copied, transmitted, viewed, stolen or used by an individual unauthorized to do so.

sgroppino8y ago

A data breach, yes, but I believe by GSR not FB? It seems like users did authorized FB to share data with GSR?

IAmEveryone8y ago

This is a stupid discussion. So I’ll continue it:

Facebook was authorized to have the data. CA was not authorized, at least not to retain the data. Therefor, it is a data breach. Facebook was the breachee, CA was the breacher. And Billy-Ray was a preacher's son.

billiam8y ago· 2 in thread

I really don’t get your point. Bikeshedding on what to call it makes it seem like the actions of the company, the Bond villains behind it, and Facebook are just fine. FB’s actions show that they knew CA was not just pushing the envelope of the consumer preference and false identity manipulation that makes them their billions but totes aware it was being done together with a foreign adversary to subvert our democracy.

hashkbOP8y ago

Words mean things. Don't assume that because someone nitpicks a technically incorrect use of a word/term that they are shooting down the entire argument. In fact, we're often trying to help; because we do agree with you; but can't get behind what you're saying 100% because part of it is not actually correct.

I'm definitely not disputing the fact that FB is an evil entity that only cares about making profits off your personal information. But, they haven't suffered a data breach in the same way as, say, Equifax; and it seems to me that choosing to use the word "breach" here must be in an effort to get more clicks; because "breach in the Equifax sense" is what the author knows most people will assume is meant.

jpttsn8y ago

Bikeshedding what to call a crime can be useful and important.

The democracy we are concerned about protecting presupposes rule of law, and precision when discussing laws and crimes.

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