Did you ever memorialise a TV on Facebook to send directly to your protagonist ’s wall , only to cast aside the take and film a novel version ? You may have suppose those sticky order of payment rendering were blue-pencil , but Facebook keep a copy . The company is blaming it on a “ hemipteron ” and swears that it ’s going to delete those discarded videos now . They pinkie promise this time .
Last week , New York ’s Select Allbroke the storythat societal meshing was keeping the apparently deleted old videos . The continued being of the tipple videos was find when several users downloaded their personal Facebook archive — and found legion video they never published . Today , Select All get a statement from Facebook fault the whole matter on a “ microbe . ” From Facebookvia New York :
We investigated a story that some people were seeing their onetime tipple video when they accessed their entropy from our Download Your Information tool . We discovered a bug that forbid draft video from being deleted . We are delete them and apologize for the inconvenience . We appreciate New York Magazine for land the return to our attention .
It was revealed last month that the data - harvesting firm ( andapparent bribery consultants ) Cambridge Analytica had acquired the information of about50 million Facebook usersand misuse that datum to help President Trump get elect . Specifically , the party was exploiting the anger of voters through highly - target advertizement . And in the wake of the ensuing scandal , citizenry have been learning all form of brainsick things about Facebook .
Facebook users have been download some of the data that the societal media behemoth keep on them and it’snot pretty . For example , Facebook has keep elaborate call logs from users with Android phones . The company tell that Android usershad to opt - infor the feature , but that ’s a bullshit cop - out when you take a look at what the screen for “ opting in ” really appear like .
There ’s a huge chasm between informed consent and what Facebook makes you do to utilize its product . When was the last time you actually take a exploiter agreement before dawn on it ?
Gizmodo has make out to Facebook for comment about any other data that it may be retain which was supposedly discarded . We ’ll update this office if we hear back , but the company has been less than forthcoming recently . Facebook was n’t exactly a model of transparence before the Cambridge Analytica scandal break , but it ’s been especiallytight - lippedas of late .
Give us a call , Facebook . You know the number . plainly .
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