[pjc50]

There's an awful lot of people posting "we knew it was bad already, why do you care now?" Remarkably consistently across all articles relating to Facebook. Clearly you want nothing done about this and are happy with this low level of privacy. But on the other hand a lot of people have been unhappy with it for a long time; suddenly the dam has broken and the public discussion in the media is taking an interest.

This happens with many scandals. I'm reminded of LIBOR "rigging", which all the participants thought was entirely normal.

[babuskov]

> Clearly you want nothing done about this and are happy with this low level of privacy.

Facebook already locked down their platform in 2014-2015. There's no use asking Facebook to do anything now. What needs to be done is to hunt down the companies that extracted the data, one by one, trace every copy of it and delete it. But that is really hard to do. It's easier to just keep attacking Facebook.

[Slansitartop]

That covers only part of the scandal, which IMHO has at least two parts:

1) Facebook data was widely shared to all kinds of 3rd parties.

2) Facebook data can be used to manipulate individuals and inappropriately influence the political process.

Even if Facebook fixes #1, #2 is still a problem (either by Facebook itself, or those using its platform).

[notafxn]

I'm not happy with this level of privacy, that's why I don't use Facebook. :-)