Leaked Document: Facebook has no bloody idea what it does with your data nor where it goes (Vice/Motherboard)

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document

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“We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data,” Facebook engineers say in leaked document.

 

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Facebook is facing what it describes internally as a “tsunami” of privacy regulations all over the world, which will force the company to dramatically change how it deals with users’ personal data. And the “fundamental” problem, the company admits, is that Facebook has no idea where all of its user data goes, or what it’s doing with it, according to a leaked internal document obtained by Motherboard.

 

“We’ve built systems with open borders. The result of these open systems and open culture is well described with an analogy: Imagine you hold a bottle of ink in your hand. This bottle of ink is a mixture of all kinds of user data (3PD, 1PD, SCD, Europe, etc.) You pour that ink into a lake of water (our open data systems; our open culture) … and it flows … everywhere,” the document read. “How do you put that ink back in the bottle? How do you organize it again, such that it only flows to the allowed places in the lake?”

 

 

[marioandsonic]

What a shock.

[Jason]

Какой шок.

[CitizenVectron]

I am in IT, so I know how these things work. Here is a  30-second primer on how we store data:

 

 

I made this video with the help of a few colleagues as part of our mock-informational series on how IT works

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

If your business is data and you don’t know how all your data is being used, how good is your business after all?

[Chris-]

1 hour ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

If your business is data and you don’t know how all your data is being used, how good is your business after all?

Good enough when you own so much it doesn’t even fucking matter. 

[TwinIon]

Maybe a tangent, but this is another reason that Elon "open sourcing" the Twitter algorithm is so bogus. The machine learning algorithms that process all this stuff are basically black boxes even to those that built them.

[CitizenVectron]

The only way I'll be happy with Musk's acquisition of Twitter is if he eliminates the algo altogether. Go back to Web 1.0 days of needing to search out stuff.

[brucoe]

It turns out that all of Zucker's Facebook data has been filtering directly into my backyard. I checked earlier today and about 197 billion documents have now been dumped into the landfall we here have been calling Facedump and all calls to the authorities have been ignored, even though we kept reporting the fact that we don't know what to do with all this stuff. Okay, that's not completely true. We did find out that one girl down the street really likes hula hoops. I mean, REALLY likes hula hoops, is all I'm gonna say.

[Anathema-]

On 4/26/2022 at 3:25 PM, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

If your business is data and you don’t know how all your data is being used, how good is your business after all?

 

We already knew their network topography was pure chaos.