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Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionable Privacy Practices

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Re: Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionable Privacy Practices

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Post by starbugs »

vijaybritto wrote: post #60
starbugs wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not surprised, but I am afraid regulators will implement rules that would harm small businesses and startups much more than they would hurt FB. On the other hand, the market seems to be pretty much finished anyway. Unless someone comes up with a real decentralized solution that is able to compete with them.

Thats a valid concern. But lets hope that they take input from the tech community when and if they do it

As an EU citizen I am quite skeptical regarding that one. But I have high hopes that US regulators won't make the same mistakes.

Re: Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionable Privacy Practices

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Post by a13n »

ishan1121 wrote: post #4

Facebook is a one-man show. Zuckerberg owning 60% of the company and no one can say anything to him. Moreover, one man has the entire monopoly over our entire online social life. Other networks have come and failed. Anti Trust regulators should seriously open Facebook's file and break it.

Mark owns less than 30% of Facebook.

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Post by asdff »

rjkennedy98 wrote: post #19
camjohnson26 wrote: post #18

Honestly I don’t see the problem, Facebook’s privacy stance has been well known for years. I don’t use their product much because of this, but friends and family couldn’t care less. Their response is that they don’t care if someone reads their messages or tailors ads to them and no matter how hard I try it won’t change their minds. If you don’t like their privacy stance just don’t use the product, it’s not like there…

I haven't used Facebook in nearly 8 years, however to say there are alternatives is specious. For example, I have recently learned I missed my first high school reunion because it was only posted on Facebook. Unfortunately, there isn't another service out there that I could subscribe to that would ensure I receive such communication.

Pretty absurd that your alumni communication is through facebook and only facebook, and they don't maintain actual contact info. Email is still the standard for my hs and uni alumni spam and I reckon it always will be, since it's pretty impossible to find people on facebook with common names unless you have mutual friends.

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Post by rubyn00bie »

a13n wrote: post #63
ishan1121 wrote: post #4

Facebook is a one-man show. Zuckerberg owning 60% of the company and no one can say anything to him. Moreover, one man has the entire monopoly over our entire online social life. Other networks have come and failed. Anti Trust regulators should seriously open Facebook's file and break it.

Mark owns less than 30% of Facebook.

Voting shares are real ownership.

Re: Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionable Privacy Practices

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Post by bongobongo »

tehjoker wrote: post #17

Don't be fooled. Zuckerberg is the head of the organization and has both created and internalized the economic logic of his organization, but the problem is systemic. If you put in someone else, they'll have a different style and might do a few things slightly different, but the economic logic is the same. Spying on the population is profitable, so such operations must be expanded to the maximum possible extent. We c…

It never ceases to amaze me how people who are opposed to government surveillance by accountable liberal constitutional democracies are OK with surveillance by unaccountable private interests who lie all the time and do harm in order to make money.

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Post by basch »

pinewurst wrote: post #3

"Internal exchanges uncovered in response to FTC probe could cast doubt on founder’s commitment to user privacy, people familiar with the matter say" Who thinks Zuckerberg has (or ever had) _any_ commitment to user privacy?

Pretty disingenuous. People can change. AND we dont have a timeline. Facebook kept pushing more and more info public, in an attempt to make facebook more useful. ( http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/ ) Then they saw they went too far and quietly scaled it back. Four years later they got burned by mistakes they already knew they made and had already started taking action on.

There's multiple issues at foot: when he knew, how he reacted, and why he didn't disclose. He could have absolutely found out, ordered changes, and tried to keep it quiet, and later learned what a mistake it was to keep quiet.

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Post by idlewords »

SapporoChris wrote: post #49
idlewords wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So... you're opining on a service you've never used? I guess you're on the right site for that.

Ad hominem fallacy: attacks the characteristics or authority of the writer without addressing the substance of the argument. source: https://medium.com/@fagnerbrack/personal-experience-doesnt-m...

Only a fool would think that was an example of the ad hominem fallacy.
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