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Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?

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Re: Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?

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Post by Xelbair »

tbronchain wrote: post #10
amelius wrote: post #8

The one privacy control that everybody is waiting for is: automatically delete all my activity data older than N days, where N can be specified by the user. Why isn't it implemented yet?

While allowing them to specify a minimum and/or incremental value for N. They're a business after all, and our data is their value. I'd be happy with that compromise.

I expect minimal value of N to be either sky high, or decent..with plenty of exceptions written in ToS so that it dosen't do anything - just like most 'out out' forms in other sites that always 'fail' to deliver your opt out.

Re: Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?

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Post by Xelbair »

aestetix wrote: post #14

Will they honor GDPR related requests? The last I saw, the have some checkbox they require european users to "agree" to in order to continue using FB, which basically waives their GDPR rights. In addition, you might want to review the questions from when Zuckerberg was in front of the European parliament. The MEPs asked some good questions and Zuck basically weasled out of it. I'd love to see the same questions broug…

they can write whatever they want when asking user to 'waive' GDPR rights.

That isn't legally binding at all.

Re: Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?

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Post by Dwolb »

I’d take a different approach to your preparation:

Try to find videos of FB officers (Zuck, Sandburg) who have already been publicly grilled.

Most likely on a corporate level, FB employees already know how to answer and respond to most of these privacy questions.

That means you need to figure out their initial canned responses, what assumptions they’re building on, and prepare a line of questioning/reasoning to chip away at their logic in follow-ups.

Re: Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?

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Post by ianai »

tbronchain wrote: post #10
amelius wrote: post #8

The one privacy control that everybody is waiting for is: automatically delete all my activity data older than N days, where N can be specified by the user. Why isn't it implemented yet?

While allowing them to specify a minimum and/or incremental value for N. They're a business after all, and our data is their value. I'd be happy with that compromise.

Agreed, I severely doubt knowing decades old minutiae helps them sell products.

Re: Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?

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Post by ianai »

Which teams budget is larger, privacy or legal?

If that question is deniable, then does FB take no efforts to guess at individuals budgets? (Ie household income, rent/mortgage, monthly subscriptions, etc) Does FB grant people privacy for what’s in their bank accounts?

Re: Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?

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Post by yayr »

1. What sustainable business models will Facebook pursue that respect or even facilitate user privacy?

2. What will be simple to use mechanisms / technologies / standards employed by FB to allow users to identify and delete their private information?

3. Will those privacy control mechanisms be standardized across Facebook products / technologies?

4. Will there be an effort to open source technologies / standards with respect to user privacy, so they can be peer reviewed and if good implemented by others in the industry?

Thanks for your efforts!

Re: Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?

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Post by kodz4 »

Ask them if they agree the like and view count next to every post/image/vid has a psychological effects on individuals and groups.

If they agree, ask them if there is anything blocking them from studying the cases where the effects are negative on individuals and groups.

If it is possible to list the kind of content where likes and views are having negative consequences to society that data(counts not content) should not be stored on Facebook server or shown to Facebook users.

Right now there is too much emphasis during privacy debates on all data.

There is no distinction being made between the like and view counts that cause the ALS challenge funding to be produced - a positive to society, and like and view counts that reinforce my antivax aunt's beliefs,

Some of these counts are harmful, some are harmless and some are useful. Why store or display the harmful stuff?

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