Former Facebook executive Antonio Garcia Martinez: "A gaping wound of data"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Antonio Garcia Martinez, one of the architect’s of Facebook’s ad system, to talk about his days at the social media giant (2:15), what Cambridge Analytica did (4:55), the Wild West of online information (7:45), how Facebook has responded to the scandal (10:00), on how trust has been broken (12:40), why a subscription model would be hard to implement (14:30), whether Facebook is too big to govern (17:05), if it can recover (18:45), how Facebook backed into its ad-driven model (21:45), why breaking it up may not solve the problem (24:15), why #deleteFacebook won’t move the needle (25:00), and the Facebook buffalo (27:00).

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0:00.0	I'm always up before the birds and the kids.
0:02.9	Good thing Costa Express is always up too.
0:07.0	Early starts are easier with great coffee.
0:09.7	And if I grab one for Bob, I might even get some decent company.
0:14.5	Large cappuccino for the bloc who's half asleep.
0:17.2	Oh, you legend.
0:19.6	Now that's a proper coffee.
0:21.3	Should kick in Justin Samfut, remember which end of the screwdriver to use.
0:25.1	Hmm.
0:26.3	Costa Express, quality coffee every time.
0:32.0	I guarantee you that half the apps on your phone are probably breaking the term to service and misusing your data to greater or lesser extent, either accidentally or intentionally.
0:39.2	Yo!
0:40.8	Technology.
0:41.9	What is it all about?
0:46.0	Hello and welcome to your extra special bonus edition of Danny in the Valley.
0:50.2	Yes, two in a week.
0:51.6	I know, it was crazy.
0:52.9	But extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.
0:56.8	And these are certainly extraordinary times for Facebook.
1:01.5	So I am sure you know all the ins and outs, but in case you have been living under a rock,
1:06.0	this last week may have been the worst in Facebook's 14-year history.
1:09.6	It was revealed that Cambridge Analytica,
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