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More likely to be Facebook, since Social Circles seems to be directly competing with them, not Microsoft.
Which is kind of funny, comparing GOOG's privacy with Facebook's privacy.
Google has my searches, and what I've clicked on. And good luck trying to get them to forget those logs.
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I think he's referring to the lack of privacy and information control even within Facebook - there are persistent claims from former engineers there that user privacy isn't taken seriously, and that breaches of user privacy by employees occurs often and with relative impunity.
As a current engineer at Facebook, I would be really surprised to read anyone claiming we don't "take it seriously." It absorbs an enormous amount of engineering effort, thought around new products, and even cap ex: computing visibility for objects whose permissions are "friends of friends", for example, is computationally expensive.
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Which is kind of funny, comparing GOOG's privacy with Facebook's privacy.
Google has far more sensitive information on me than Facebook. Facebook only has publicly facing information, stuff that you've already shared with other people. Google has my searches, and what I've clicked on. And good luck trying to get them to forget those logs.
Facebook may not know as much about you, but they often know much more detailed information (ie, where you were last night).
Most of Facebook's users don't consider their "wall" to be public despite the fact that Facebook defaults it to be so (and has repeatedly reset privacy settings in the past to be "more public"). Complicate this with the fact that others can "implicate" you with their messages written on your wall. Despite you hiding them, they are there, in Facebook's servers just like your Google searches... except you didn't write them.
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Which is kind of funny, comparing GOOG's privacy with Facebook's privacy.
Google has far more sensitive information on me than Facebook. Facebook only has publicly facing information, stuff that you've already shared with other people. Google has my searches, and what I've clicked on. And good luck trying to get them to forget those logs.
Ummm, and maybe every site you ever visited whose owners display those funny "like" buttons.
In other news, Google fanboy is caught pointing fingers on people disliking Google.
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Google has far more sensitive information on me than Facebook. Facebook only has publicly facing information, stuff that you've already shared with other people. Google has my searches, and what I've clicked on. And good luck trying to get them to forget those logs.
Unfortunately, you are not representative of the average Facebook user. The average Facebook user is much less privacy savvy. Not everyone uses Google (most do), and Gmail surprisingly isn't the most popular internet mail. Facebook may not know as much about you, but they often know much more detailed information (ie, where you were last night). Most of Facebook's users don't consider their "wall" to be public despit…
Facebook doesn't know anything about anyone that they're not comfortable sharing with at least one other person. Google knows things about people they would never share with anyone. That's a fundamental difference, not related to privacy savvy.
Facebook does have lots of dirt people only want to share with a few people, however.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/9/e-totalitaria...
Seems like a good time to revist Paul's essay "The Submarine:" PR is not dishonest. Not quite. In fact, the reason the best PR firms are so effective is precisely that they aren't dishonest. They give reporters genuinely valuable information. A good PR firm won't bug reporters just because the client tells them to; they've worked hard to build their credibility with reporters, and they don't want to destroy it by fee…
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I think he's referring to the lack of privacy and information control even within Facebook - there are persistent claims from former engineers there that user privacy isn't taken seriously, and that breaches of user privacy by employees occurs often and with relative impunity.
As a current engineer at Facebook, I would be really surprised to read anyone claiming we don't "take it seriously." It absorbs an enormous amount of engineering effort, thought around new products, and even cap ex: computing visibility for objects whose permissions are "friends of friends", for example, is computationally expensive.