# Facebook Data Breaches and Their Impact On You

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Dave Schroeder
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQLxLzL-0ro
- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/35253

## Транскрипт

### Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00) []

you're watching Capital City Sunday welcome back the impact of cybersecurity and elections is becoming a growing concern and just recently researchers found Facebook exposed hundreds of millions of people's personal records joining us now is Dave Schrader a uw-madison strategist in the information and technology field thank you for joining us nice to be here um so I want to talk about this recent breach and it kind of comes on the heels of about a year ago when we heard well everyone kind of got familiar with the phrase of Cambridge analytical scandal so are we going to keep seeing these surprises we are it's safe to say that we're gonna see more of them and they're we're gonna continue to see large breaches like these this most recent breach was 540 million records from Facebook so that is likes comments shares all the types of interactions that you can think about when you are interacting with Facebook for millions of people now when it comes to Facebook it seems like when you download an app it ask if you want to sign in through Facebook right that's become a more quick easy way to skip the process of your email and whatnot is that I guess the problem is that these third-party apps that are going through Facebook and then information is being shared everywhere it is and that's what we saw happen with Cambridge analytic oh happened with one of these recent breaches the smaller one that just happened the culture collective 'ya was the large breach they say that it's public information some of them information is public but when it's gathered together by these apps by these third party pages on Facebook it becomes very valuable because it contains a lot of information that people are sharing about their preferences their likes their dislikes and when you go to these apps that look like a fun little game or a quiz or something like that and you say sign in with Facebook that has access to large volumes of information on your Facebook account your name your email address in some cases your photos things you post on your profile sometimes these apps even have permission to post on your profile as yourself and if you don't explicitly remove them they stay there what why do people want this information and what do they use it for well this information is used largely for advertising and that's what a lot of people use it for but it's also used not just to separate people from their money so to speak but personal information that personal information is incredibly valuable not just for targeting advertising but for something like a foreign state actor to target an influencer operation against people using these platforms now Facebook has been coming over has been I guess branded as these mistakes continue to happen but is I guess who's responsible for all this is it just Facebook to blame or is it others it's not just Facebook and you know that you see a lot of this with other large social media firms and internet operators in this space like Twitter like Google with YouTube so it's not just Facebook stands out among these operators because they're so large Facebook has over 2 billion active users and you know how do they respond to this you know so facebook says that they have about 20,000 people on their trust and security team but if you do the math that's one person for over a hundred thousand users of Facebook so you've got one person 24 hours a day responsible for policing what essentially is a city well don't not have these mistakes continues to happen is it just delete your Facebook delete Facebook in general and start over well there's things that you can do to protect yourself a little bit and one of them is to just avoid all these quizzes and apps and games that are asking you to log in at using Facebook so you know while it's tempting and while these things are fun you know they're designed other people to click and engage as well oftentimes when you take one of these quizzes that quiz app will post on your page as you saying hey I just took this fun quiz you should take it too and so that's why you know people get wrapped up in this because your friend is just showing you something you trust the people you're connected with on Facebook friends and family and so you click it too but then these apps stay there and they still have access to your personal information sometimes years later and these apps can change hands and sometimes the people who use that information do so for nefarious purposes

### Segment 2 (05:00 - 07:00) [5:00]

when it comes to twenty20 elections it seems Congress is taking steps to ensure that election officials have everything they need when it comes to protecting voter identities and the whole system as a whole going forward are there additional things that Congress should do is it Congress's responsibility I mean is this preventable entirely well I think the challenge that tech companies face in the US and in other democracies is this balance between you know notion of free speech even though they're not government entities you know free speech freedom of interaction the ability to use these platforms to communicate in an unfettered way but also having responsibility for bad actors on the platform and when the tech firms take a hands-off approach and say that they're essentially not responsible for the content that's posted it's difficult to proactively police content there you're always going to be behind the curve so when you have anything from the New Zealand shooting being live-streamed on Facebook to foreign intelligence services targeting Americans on these platforms it's extremely challenging to get out in front of it now Mark Zuckerberg the founder and CEO of Facebook just recently wrote an editorial where he says that you know perhaps some government regulation is going to be necessary and so the tech companies are gonna be looking for and if they don't get that guidance in a responsible way from government then you know they're gonna be trying to do things themselves all right and we'll see where this goes going forward thank you for joining us thank you this week governor eavers will mark his first 100 days in office and the Education Committee will consider a bill to require the Department of Public Instruction to hire a dyslexia specialist that's all the time we have for today thank you for joining us and we'll see you next week