{"id":35972,"date":"2018-04-04T16:51:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T23:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=35972"},"modified":"2018-04-04T16:55:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T23:55:31","slug":"you-have-been-scraped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/04\/you-have-been-scraped\/","title":{"rendered":"You have been scraped"},"content":{"rendered":"

F*c*b**k announced today that the personal data of most of its two billion users<\/a> has been scraped — that is harvested, stolen, collected, aggregated, collated, probably sold, used, and otherwise misused by outside parties.<\/p>\n

This scraping has been done by what they call “malicious actors” or “bad actors.” That is, identity thieves and their ilk. <\/p>\n

But the truth is that the real bad actor here is F*c*b**k. Their site was set up to enable this. They did nothing to prevent it and everything to make it possible. It was built in to the way FB did business.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then they tried to bury the news.<\/p>\n

Then they tried to justify themselves by saying that all that happy, happy work of connecting all the people in the world meant that … well, you know, they’d missed a detail or two. But it was allllll in a great cause, really, truly.<\/p>\n

After all, according to The Big Zuck, FB did you the YUGE favor of giving you everything free, unlike those eeeeeevil companies<\/a> like Apple that charge for their products. <\/p>\n

It was pure altruism in action. (“Just don’t look over here at the billions I’m making from selling your data to good<\/em> actors,” sez The Zuck.)<\/p>\n

Yeah, Ayn Rand could have told you all about that kind of altruism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

F*c*b**k announced today that the personal data of most of its two billion users has been scraped — that is harvested, stolen, collected, aggregated, collated, probably sold, used, and otherwise misused by outside parties. This scraping has been done by what they call “malicious actors” or “bad actors.” That is, identity thieves and their ilk. But the truth is that the real bad actor here is F*c*b**k. Their site was set up to enable this. They did nothing to prevent it and everything to make it possible. It was built in to the way FB did business. Then they tried…<\/p>\n

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