Thank you for showing me the supposedly trivial guide to understanding GDPR. The only thing that website has shown me is that no globally competitive tech company will ever grow out of the EU for the next hundred years or so.
I really hope nothing remotely similar to gdpr is written into legislation in the US. I do not even know how I would get started writing a website that would adhere to GDPR requirements
If people were educated with how the internet works they would know that the second you load some piece of content from someone else's servers they have your information as well.
Shift blame? Facebook created an API that would allow people to create genuinely useful apps provided that users allowed them to access their data. I can think of a thousand interesting use cases for the data Facebook provided through their api.
One bad actor screwed everyone.
I'm surprised at how few people on hackernews have ever built or worked with apis.
Facebook essentially built an open platform and now they are being punished for it because people are too stupid to understand what they are signing up for.
Do you not understand how platform apis work? If you sign up for a third party app using Facebook and give them permission to access all your data you should expect them to capture all of your data