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Facebook taps lawyer who helped write Patriot Act as new general counsel

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Re: Facebook taps lawyer who helped write Patriot Act as new general counsel

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post #3

Facebook is the defense contractor that is building America's Great Firewall and social credit system, so it makes sense that there is a revolving door with the authoritarian regime.

I’m not familiar with either of those two projects. Perhaps the latter is the aggregation of numerous “good customer” scores, plus actual credit rating, plus the no-fly list. But I haven’t heard about an actual program that implements a social credit score that FB is implementing.

It's called sarcasm

Re: Facebook taps lawyer who helped write Patriot Act as new general counsel

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

for facebook optics is not a thing. they know they have a stranglehold on people addicted to their products, and advertisers who pay through the nose to sell things to those addicts. Honestly, why bother with optics? No one's going to like the company ever again except their employees, but no business or politician or organization is going to not take facebook's call.

Why bother with optics? Well, for one thing, presumably they still need to recruit people once in a while (including people with lots and lots of options).

Anyone who will work for facebook now doesn't care about optics.

Re: Facebook taps lawyer who helped write Patriot Act as new general counsel

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post #6

I for one don't let Facebook use me. This makes little difference to me.

Facebook probably has a lot of data on you regardless. Are you in any friends' address book? Do you use a loyalty card at the grocery store? Ever walk in a mall? Own a car? Pay property tax? Have a mailing address?

Re: Facebook taps lawyer who helped write Patriot Act as new general counsel

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not familiar with either of those two projects. Perhaps the latter is the aggregation of numerous “good customer” scores, plus actual credit rating, plus the no-fly list. But I haven’t heard about an actual program that implements a social credit score that FB is implementing.

It's called sarcasm

Or "speculation"

Re: Facebook taps lawyer who helped write Patriot Act as new general counsel

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To those unsure as to why this is particularly relevant: the Patriot Act is notable for drastically expanding the surveillance powers of the US government [1]. I wonder what this lawyer will do at Facebook? [1] https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/privacy-and-su...

And Obama promised to repeal the "PATRIOT" Act but instead signed to extend and expand it... If he had not signed anything, it would have expired all by itself...

edit: sorry if you don't like the truth (I know that a lot of you commit to only one political party, but still... the truth is the truth.).

Re: Facebook taps lawyer who helped write Patriot Act as new general counsel

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post #6

I for one don't let Facebook use me. This makes little difference to me.

You should look up "shadow profiles". Facebook knows almost everything about you from people you interact with by collecting that data into your shadow profile. Also, regardless of what you do, Facebook (along with other big tech companies, but Facebook in particular) is a menace for society and should be treated as such.

Re: Facebook taps lawyer who helped write Patriot Act as new general counsel

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post #6

I for one don't let Facebook use me. This makes little difference to me.

Does it? No matter how much I try block it, they always manage to get information about me; location, preferences... Thanks, "Facebook for Developers".
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