In March, two veteran Facebook engineers found themselves grilled about the company’s sprawling data collection operations in a hearing for the ongoing lawsuit over the mishandling of private user information stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The hearing, a transcript of which was recently unsealed, was aimed at resolving one crucial issue: What information, precisely, does Facebook store about us, and where is it? The engineers’ response will come as little relief to those concerned with the company’s stewardship of billions of digitized lives: They don’t know. [...] “I don’t believe there’s a single person that exists who could answer that question,” replied Eugene Zarashaw, a Facebook engineering director. “It would take a significant team effort to even be able to answer that question.” [...] The remarks in the hearing echo those found in an internal document leaked to Motherboard earlier this year detailing how the internal engineering dysfunction at Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, makes compliance with data privacy laws an impossibility. “We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data, and thus we can’t confidently make controlled policy changes or external commitments such as ‘we will not use X data for Y purpose,’” the 2021 document read. [...] https://theintercept.com/2022/09/07/facebook-personal-data-no-accountability/ Personalmente sono convinto che giochino la carta del fare gli idioti per non pagare pegno, ma di buono c'è che dopo dichiarazioni come queste, nessun DPO potrà sostenere che l'uso dei servizi di Facebook fornisca "adeguate garanzie di protezione dei dati personali". In altri termini, tutti i Titolari che usano i servizi di Facebook sono responsabili di aver violato come minimo l'articolo 28 del GDPR. Voglio proprio vedere cosa si inventeranno questa volta... :-) Giacomo _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list [email protected] https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa
