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Re: A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking

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I just don't believe that he actually means any of this. Facebook's actions over the years do not indicate that Mark Zuckerberg cares about the privacy of his users.

Even if he does care, you can't trust him to be honest or to think their behavior all the way through. The theme in Facebook's behavior is that they put profits over privacy, but also that they don't understand what privacy really means when they do try to respect it.

Re: A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking

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They might want to finish up the "Clear History" feature he announced last May [0] first...

> "If you watch the presentation, we really had nothing to show anyone," said one person, who was close to F8. "Mark just wanted to score some points." [1]

[0] https://www.recode.net/2018/12/17/18140062/facebook-clear-hi...

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-privac...

Re: A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking

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post #2

I just don't believe that he actually means any of this. Facebook's actions over the years do not indicate that Mark Zuckerberg cares about the privacy of his users.

I'd go so far as to say that there is no point in even bothering to read the article because of this.

Re: A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking

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The only way forward for privacy would be the complete deconstruction of the facebook machine. There is nothing that can be done to salvage this beast. Don't be the last person to delete your account. We can turn facebook into myspace. All it takes is for you to let go of your excuses of why you still use their awful products.
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