Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data
I'm no Facebook fan but the reasons behind the lawsuit are bad and could set a bad precedent.Cambridge Analytica used the Facebook API to ask users to share data about them & their friends. Stupid users agreed to that.The argument here isn't that Facebook is playing fast and loose with tracking & user data (which would be a legitimate argument), it's that Facebook is allowing people to grant access to their data to third-parties and Facebook should somehow be faulted for that. Facebook is a neutral carrier here, and they acted on behalf of the user - he decided that Cambridge Analytica should have had access to his data. Facebook should not be forced to somehow be the arbiter of this.This lawsuit will give even more reasons to platforms to restrict API access which would impact legitimate usage much more than nefarious abuse (stupid people will always find a way to screw up, API or not - if the API is gone they'd happily enter their Facebook credentials directly instead).