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                  1. 1/ Revealed preferences at work: would @facebook has to put so many barriers to protect their users' data if they hadn't carelessly collected *way too much* data in the first place? Thread ⤵️ theverge.com/2018/4/4/17199632/facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-collection-87-million-users-api-developer-restrictions
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                  2/ With this move, Facebook is destroying major parts of their ecosystem. This ecosystem helps publishers and developers interact with Facebook's users. This move means: less publications, less interactions through third party apps, so a less valuable platform for users.
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                3/ Facebook is doing such a (costly) move to save their main product (a.k.a. advertisement). Because if they don't credibly show they take privacy seriously, it may deter users to use the platform. And selling ads only work if there's someone to see them.
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              4/ Somehow, Facebook needs all those personal data to sell efficient ads. The harvesting of data won't stop. Data will just be more "siloed" to Facebook itself.
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            5/ I expect Facebook to be more "Facebook centered" in the next few years. Major third party apps and services will break after these new restrictions. Facebook interface will be the only way to access some features that were previously accessible elsewhere.
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          6/ On the other side, by saying they'll stop giving access to *a lot* of data to third parties, Facebook revealed that they did allowed such an access in the first place. And thay they have so many data to be accessed.
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        7/ The problem when there's a breach of trust is that trust can take *a lot* of time to be rebuild – if it's possible to rebuild it at all.
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      8/ Facebook may already be in trouble, as US and Canadian users use it less recode.net/2018/1/31/16957122/facebook-daily-active-user-decline-us-canda-q4-earnings-2018 Younger users also use Facebook less recode.net/2018/2/12/16998750/facebooks-teen-users-decline-instagram-snap-emarketer Those numbers were *before* the Cambridge Analytica (CA) scandal.
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    9/ After the desastrous 2016 US election and the CA scandal, I see more and more older people (me included) stopping to use Facebook.
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      10/ I deleted the apps from both my iPhone and my iPad. I may not open Facebook on my Mac for *days*. I installed this extension on Firefox: blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebook-container-extension/ And you know what? I don't miss it. At all.
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        11/ I also consider deleting the page associated with my economics popularization website Le Signal Économie lesignal.info. Engagement is dreadful if you don't buy ads, TOS are enforced inconsistently, and things will soon worsen for publishers theverge.com/2018/2/13/17009114/facebook-campbell-brown-code-media-news-publishers
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          12/ I still have my account, but I'm actively thinking of deactivating it in a way that won't hurt me. In the next few months, we'll see if my behavior was just a minority or something more general.
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            13/ Maybe I'm wrong, but I have the feeling the CA scandal is a major shift in how the public perceives data and privacy: 87 millions people, mostly in the US, will have a message on their feed explaining their data were harvested by CA. That's *huge*.
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              14/14 How the general public (aka the average user) will react to this controversy and the ensuing breach of trust? No one knows for now. But one thing is certain: the story will continue.
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