Facebook Data Privacy
The cluster centers on debates about Facebook's collection, storage, and sharing of user data through apps, including access to friends' information without direct consent, and questions why Facebook faces unique criticism compared to other apps.
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Facebook can't be the only app that has collected this data, can it? What about every other app that requests permission to see that data?
No, because FB has allowed them access to these data.
... then why is it ok for facebook to have all of that same information ?
Why would anyone trust facebook with this data?
Well, any other app could. Facebook is not exclusive in having access to this information, they're just one of the few asking you for it. Every other app could ask for it as well.
If I remember correctly you can't request access to any non-public user info without submitting your app first for manual approval by Facebook's staff. So, if there are FB apps out there tracking extra user info, Facebook must have reviewed and approved them, so they are obviously OK with such usage. So it's not an exploit of the platform, it's FB's core business...
any sources on data that FB is scraping about you?
It's not obvious to me. How were you harmed by facebook logging this data?
Facebook users shared data with their friends. Those friends gave access to the data to CA. So like if you share a document with me and I then give CA access to my GDrive.
Facebook only has access to what you give it.