James Allworth
medium.com/@jamesallworth · Personal blog · on HN since 2015
James Allworth writes essays on technology companies, Facebook's data practices, business strategy, and politics.
What HN saysCommenters return to his post on Facebook's handling of personal data and share his pieces on Brexit, Trump, and America's entrepreneurial decline.
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- 1In 2012 Facebook bragged about millions of apps, 3 yrs before it cut off access5 people · 22 points · first shared 2018 · 2 comments on HN
- 2The US has gone F&*%ing mad4 people · 42 points · first shared 2016 · 29 comments on HN
- 3The iPhone's Success Is Causing the Watch to Fail3 people · 19 points · first shared 2016 · 2 comments on HN
- 4Brexit, Trump and the Ultimatum Game3 people · 11 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 5Who’s going to be having sleepless nights after Microsoft’s LinkedIn deal?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 6Manage What Matters1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 7Technology Has Become Water1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 8Founders and Motivation1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 9The slow decay of americas entrepreneurial society f9aeb61458911 people · first shared 2017
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jazzyjackson · 2019-06-18
I keep coming back to this blog when it comes to Facebook's handling of PII -- they didn't lose it accidentally, but they gave access to it in exchange for developing popular / viral apps for facebook as a platform,
"What the f* was facebook thinking" https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/what-the-f-was-facebook-thinking-a1c…
They gave out users' unique global ID with the export API so it was trivial to merge PII from multiple sources. They didn't have to be hacked, they left the door open. Facebook was full of dumb 'which x-movie-character are you' because every one of those grabbed a few more profiles and at one point, private inbox messages, all to be merged back into somebody's data trove.
vermontdevil · 2018-03-21
Even if CA deleted their data, what about all the other data that has been taken out as per this [1]?
All our data associated with FB unique id is out there. My understanding this has stopped in 2015 but for sure?
Hopefully the data that is out there becomes less relevant over time.
[1] https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/what-the-f-was-facebook-thinking-a1c…
skadamat · 2017-04-23
This is a somewhat relevant read - https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/the-slow-decay-of-americas-entrepren…
Basically discussed shift from discussion in politics about democracy to economics.
ctvo · 2016-07-06
James Allworth wrote something similar that made the case better:
https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/brexit-trump-and-the-ultimatum-game-…
pluma · 2016-02-25
The original Medium article[0] appeared on HN earlier. Can't find the link tho.
[0]: https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/the-u-s-has-gone-f-ing-mad-52e525f76…