The cynic in me keeps wondering whether this is a genuine attempt at getting some transparency points or FB wants to more precisely analyze how many people actually care...
What about those of us that actually deleted Facebook after the scandal? How are we supposed to check if our data was shared with CA if Facebook requires you to be logged in to check?
Step 1) Login to Facebook.<p>Sorry, that's not how breach notification works. Facebook attempts to continue making money off of their customers data being leaked.
One thing I find interesting about this is the very cautious wording of the message you get in the "good" case.<p>'As a result, it doesn't appear your Facebook information was shared with Cambridge Analytica <i>by "This is Your Digital Life"</i>.'<p>They don't say your information wasn't shared with Cambridge Analytica. They don't even say your information "doesn't appear" to have been shared with Cambridge Analytica. They say it doesn't appear to have been shared <i>by this particular route</i>.<p>Mere caution on general principles? Or do they know or suspect that there may be other means by which Facebook users' data have been shared with Cambridge Analytica?
Is there a tool to check if my social graph data was scraped by the Obama campaign? Or is this only a scandal when it helps Republicans?<p>[1] <a href="https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568130117459975" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568130117459975</a>
[2] <a href="http://thehill.com/opinion/technology/379245-whats-genius-for-obama-is-scandal-when-it-comes-to-trump" rel="nofollow">http://thehill.com/opinion/technology/379245-whats-genius-fo...</a>
Check, probably not shared for me and my friends.<p>That's not surprising though as I'm from Germany. And of course it's "not shared" for most Facebook users. However this is highly misleading as this is just one example of data harvesting on Facebook.
I find it very hard to imagine that "This is your digital life" was the only source CA used.<p>It's more logical that they would have had an ongoing effort to keep collecting data.
What’s funny about this whole thing is that nobody really cares that <i>their own</i> data may have been accessed by CA, they are just angry that <i>other</i> people, meaning gullible Trump supporters, may have been affected.