Facebook Portal – Privacy review • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook Portal – Privacy review

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Post by dmitriid » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 8:19 AM UTC

sodosopa wrote: post #36

dmitriid wrote: post #33

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It was a programming mistake. Only a few accounts were affected. Inadvertently. Only 300 000 users affected. We're committed to privacy as always and in the coming year well take steps to make sure this never happens again. Our estimations were incomplete and a tad off, 270 million accounts affected, possibly more. Our users are at the center of all we do and will do everything in or power to protect their data.

“Only 300,000” You’re minimizing exposing information of enough people to populate most of Cincinnati, Ohio (301k)? Casting that as “only 300,000” is sickening.

It's a joke and also Facebook's press releases almost verbatim :)

Re: Facebook Portal – Privacy review

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Post by netsharc » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 10:30 AM UTC

TheRealPomax wrote: post #104

netsharc wrote: post #17

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I read a comment a while ago that said, the Firefox Foundation has too much money and the executive committee has to look useful, so they've been coming up with stupid ideas for a few years now.

Except of course that there is no such thing as "the firefox foundation". There's the Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit that works with lots of people and other organizations, both online and offline, on programs and projects that line up with the Mozilla manifesto. Stuff like this Buyer's Guide is what the foundation has always been about. What it doesn't do is "make Firefox"; it never has. There's the Mozilla Corp…

> Except of course that there is no such thing as "the firefox foundation".

D'oh! Allow me to use the excuse of having had a 14 hour flight when I wrote the original comment.

Re: Facebook Portal – Privacy review

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Post by _b8r0 » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:46 AM UTC

SirYandi wrote: post #30

sojmq wrote: post #18

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The best part is the pointless poll that then uses a dark pattern to collect your email address to spam you if you want to look at the results

You could say no thanks and view the results without giving an email

You could, but in classic dark pattern style the colours are set up to draw you away from the "No Thanks" by matching the header background.

Is there a page for this? I'm not sure whether to vote more or less creepy for what it's doing.