Silence! Bring Back The Regulators

Another huge data breach

It is a brand new day. You start it by turning on your phone and check what is happening on Facebook or on your Facebook messenger to see who is online.

But, here is the ugly truth, right now, your data can be everywhere on the dark web. To most, it may mean no harm, but who knows. It is the most significant data breach, and Facebook is silent again!

And this is where Facebook fails. As a company, it has no sense of responsibility. It still acts like Facebook from the dorm checking out female students, who are hot or not. Yes, Mark Zuckerberg is the ultimate data scraper and, to be honest, a little creepy.

According to The Harvard Crimson, Facemash used “photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the “hotter” person”.[9] Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online.

We need to address today, and today, Facebook’s response has always been to blame others.

This is another example of the ongoing, adversarial relationship technology companies have with fraudsters who intentionally break platform policies to scrape internet services. — Facebook

It is only money, and Facebook has the money.

It’s this culture of impunity that makes Facebook such a dangerous company. Even where there are laws, it operates above them. There will be mass class actions that arise from this breach. But so what? It’ll take years and anyway, it’s only money. — Carole Cadwalladr

Facebook keeps on dodging responsibilities because not only it knows it can, but also because it knows billions are already addicted to Facebook anyway, that data breach is the last thing social media addicts have in mind.

People will use Facebook to have their dopamine fix, so Facebook is above the law.