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My mind has fashioned me to think that these leaks, so called, are planned. To why I think so, is simple. When you, as Facebook, sell user data to other companies/third parties/countries, then it is crime, or is subject to investigation when it is known. But these so called leaks, are deemed "we are sorry, we will fix it, but we are so sorry about the data". And that is it. No one is responsible.

Now you have 50 million people's data for sale. Are you in that 50 million? You don't know or you will never know.

Connected incidents - British Airways Data Leak, Equifax, Uber Data Theft Cover Up, Air Canada, T-Mobile, Dixons Carphone......how many such. All of them soon will be available for sale, with no one to blame for.

>>Roadie+(OP)
Wild speculation. Any evidence?

I don't think there has been much stopping these companies selling the data up to this point. That's been the issue with Facebook and others, they have happily sold peoples data with little legal protection for the people whose data they sell. There is no crime in just selling the data within the US so your theory doesn't hold up.

Never attribute to conspiracy that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

>>Roadie+(OP)
This does not survive Occam's Razor.

>>maym86+E1
I don't have any evidence. But I just like to think it that way. Also it could be because I finished reading most of the books mentioned here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17749283

BTW there are people who need data, not just people within US.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/world/asia/trump-china-el... "Mr. Trump did not suggest that China’s behavior was on the scale of Russia’s sophisticated campaign of manipulating social media and the release of hacked emails during the 2016 presidential election."

https://www.rappler.com/technology/news/211276-facebook-twit... Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, opened the hearing by citing the promise of social media before adding, "But we've also learned about how vulnerable social media is to corruption and misuse. The very worst examples of this are absolutely chilling and a threat to our democracy."

Already, Russia and Iran have sought to interfere by passing themselves off as American groups or people to shape the views of American voters, say lawmakers and technology executives. Facebook, Google and Twitter together took down hundreds of accounts tied to the two countries last month, a move that prompted Burr to open the hearing Wednesday by expressing fear that "more foreign countries are now trying to use your products to shape and manipulate American political sentiment as an instrument of statecraft."

Cambridge Analytica - Worked with some Indian Political Parties or the Government itself too.

Lawmakers aren't limited in the questions they can pose Facebook and Twitter. Sandberg's boss, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, faced questions in April hearings that extended far beyond the reason the hearing was called: Facebook's entanglement with Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy that improperly accessed 87 million users' personal information. Sandberg could also face questions on Cambridge Analytica.

>>Roadie+94
> But I just like to think it that way.

You should try and change that. Best to deal with the actual verifiable ills of the world, without causing misdirection and making up new ones

>>Roadie+(OP)
I had the same feeling when Google accidentally gained access to medical records from the NHS. Everyone involved acknowledged they need to do better, yet no one ever suggested to delete the illegally obtained data.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/07/03/googles-de...