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A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking

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Re: A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking

#21
> But we've repeatedly shown that we can evolve to build the services that people really want, including in private messaging and stories.

Do people really want bots in their private messages? Didn't Instagram and Facebook steal the stories feature from Snapchat?

What people really want is React. How about making a React library for making facebook apps? Like AWS Amplify, but for Facebook.

Re: A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking

#24
post #17

Translation: "We're finally getting a bit worried about all this talk about social media regulation. Still, we're going to do our best to implement the smallest possible privacy changes to minimize the impact on our revenues, while still looking like "we're doing something" about the privacy scandals."

Heh, no. This is yet more empty promises. They'll not do anything in this letter.

Re: A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking

#26

What do you guys think of this "Facebook insider" interview? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYSmFI9GAAs Facebook Insider Leaks Docs; Explains "Deboosting" "Troll Report" & Political Targeting in Interview

That's a James O'Keefe production, so I'll quote the first paragraph of his wikipedia bio in full:

> James Edward O'Keefe III (born June 28, 1984) is an American conservative political activist.[2][3] He produces secretly recorded undercover audio and video encounters with figures and workers in academic, governmental, and social service organizations, purporting to show abusive or allegedly illegal behavior by employees and/or representatives of those organizations.[4] He has been criticized for selectively editing videos to misrepresent the context of conversations and the subjects' responses, creating the false impression that people said or did things they did not.[5][6][7][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%27Keefe

Re: A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking

#27
I missed the section on:

Advertising Profiles

People expect that if they don't have a Facebook account we aren't mining their friends' address books to build profiles of them that can't be erased because they aren't our customers. We are sorry that we did that and after deleting them earlier this morning we will no longer operate that way...

(not a quote, just what I'd like to have seen)

Re: A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking

#30
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.

Facebook's business model is 100% incompatible with really preserving user privacy.
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