Its Not that Facebook got Coned into Allowing an App to Collect Information About Users that's Odd. Its that 1. They Did Not Immediately Report it. And 2. People Need to Accept that in an Online World There is no Privacy Anymore. This Fact Worries People.

Can Facebook be trusted with your personal info? Voter harvesting scheme shows perils for users

CLOSE SAN FRANCISCO - Can Facebook be trusted with your personal information? That's the question many Americans are asking as Facebook scrambles to contain a growing firestorm over revelations that a data-mining firm working for the Trump campaign improperly got its hands on the personal information of tens of millions of people and created remarkably detailed and intimate profiles that were used to target unsuspecting voters in the presidential election.

From article, ("The Cambridge Analytica scandal gives us a glimpse of how Facebook makes billions of dollars off of our personal information without ever dealing with the consequences," said Chester, a longtime privacy critic of Facebook.

[But, the thing is Facebook did handle the problem.]

 Facebook says the transmission of data to Cambridge Analytics was a violation of its rules and, on Friday, it suspended the firm. On Monday Facebook announced that Cambridge Analytica had agreed to an independent audit by a digital forensics firm. 

Before apps gain access to Facebook users, the Silicon Valley company says it conducts "a robust review" to determine if apps have a legitimate need for users' data. It also noted it has restricted how much personal information outsiders can obtain since the Cambridge Analytica incident. 

"We actually reject a significant number of apps through this process. Kogan’s app would not be permitted access to detailed friends’ data today," Facebook said.

[What is deceptive is in when it reported the problem.]

Facebook says a researcher, Cambridge University's Aleksandr Kogan, gained access to the data of 270,000 Facebook users in 2013 through a personality quiz app that required Facebook users to grant access to their personal information including friends and "likes."

[Had Facebook come clean a while back this might not have seen like such a shock. In fact it may have made for a good piece of political flogger in the 2016 presidential race.
 Then again maybe keeping it hidden until a suitable time was also thought about to lesson the impact on Facebook and its users. Still not right but understandable.])

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Me, "The situation is: had Facebook known that they were being lied to they would have stopped the app from being on its site to being with. There are people out there that will lie to you for personal gain. If you look at EBay, Amazon, or other selling sites. (customer reviews), of companies selling products, you never know if it is a legitimate review or someone paid to lie to boost a company profile. 

The only solution to this is either put less of your data on sites like Facebook or just accept that some information may get out about you. Its like the data that companies (like credit card companies, or online advertisers), trade back and forth about you for money. We allow them to use our data because we are using their products or we clicked on a link. They give long contracts telling you what is shared and what is not shared. 
Look, I can be boil down to this: privacy really does not exist, anymore, in an online world. Its something we have to get used too. A lot of our personal data is collected. Google, Facebook, and many others, basically, use what we tell them to market products at us. 

For the most part we yawn and say okay no big deal, these items, or ads, are just for me. Its when that data is used against you that it is a problem. 

For example, If your a Democrat or a Republican or Independent and instead of there being a level playing field where no one knows what affiliation you are, (secret vote and all), and Democrats are bombarded with Republican political Ads but Republican voters are left alone because they will vote Republican anyway, something is not right here. 
Or, in reverse where you are a Republican and you get thrown ads at you by Democrats only because they know your party affiliation but leave fellow democrats alone... Well, it can be disconcerting. Its not to say, that somehow some of your party affiliation has not been gotten some other way. But, when one party uses it to the disadvantage of another, like in this Facebook case, someone has to be like: is this kosher?

It's something that bothers me a lot, When I quote excerpts for readers to look at on this site. What should I include, and what should I hold back, so people go to a websites original page that I am citing. Is there too much juicy stuff not to include? 
Or, when I fill out personal information on a website: What is too much? What is too little? And who sees what?"