“The Big Shift”: Internal Facebook Memo Tells Employees to Do Better on Privacy
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“The Big Shift”: Internal Facebook Memo Tells Employees to Do Better on Privacy
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Re: “The Big Shift”: Internal Facebook Memo Tells Employees to Do Better on Privacy
#2This could be a smart move. Facebook could position themselves as the go-to platform for privacy aware users. They might capture users fleeing Google, Microsoft and Apple because of privacy.
I'm assuming that "The Big Shift" is actually sincere and that Facebook's history won't be a show stopper.
EDIT: my assumptions are not realistic, so this is probably an impossible outcome. My point was to evaluate if the described move would be beneficial or not. I believe it would.
Re: “The Big Shift”: Internal Facebook Memo Tells Employees to Do Better on Privacy
#3It's not the employees at Facebook who are undermining privacy, but the founder.
Re: “The Big Shift”: Internal Facebook Memo Tells Employees to Do Better on Privacy
#4This could be a smart move. Facebook could position themselves as the go-to platform for privacy aware users. They might capture users fleeing Google, Microsoft and Apple because of privacy. I'm assuming that "The Big Shift" is actually sincere and that Facebook's history won't be a show stopper. EDIT: my assumptions are not realistic, so this is probably an impossible outcome. My point was to evaluate if the describ…
In what parallel universe would users be fleeing Apple to Facebook for privacy?
Re: “The Big Shift”: Internal Facebook Memo Tells Employees to Do Better on Privacy
#5Hilarious. This is not something that employees and engineers have any control over, and framing it like this is passing the buck. Furthermore, user privacy is a fundamental top down engineering decision, not something that any individual can "do better on."
Re: “The Big Shift”: Internal Facebook Memo Tells Employees to Do Better on Privacy
#6This could be a smart move. Facebook could position themselves as the go-to platform for privacy aware users. They might capture users fleeing Google, Microsoft and Apple because of privacy. I'm assuming that "The Big Shift" is actually sincere and that Facebook's history won't be a show stopper. EDIT: my assumptions are not realistic, so this is probably an impossible outcome. My point was to evaluate if the describ…
It is not a "literally impossible" future, but given what the past has been, this is definitely an improbable incredulous future.
Re: “The Big Shift”: Internal Facebook Memo Tells Employees to Do Better on Privacy
#7My cynical view on this is that Facebook has realized they can better protect their market dominance by raising the walls on their garden and locking down your data as much as possible, and calling that privacy. I expect them to fight data portability initiatives tooth and nail in the name of said "privacy."
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#8"Starting in January we are changing the way we approach product development in FRL"
The key phrase here is "in FRL". Even if they follow through, Reality Labs is one small corner of Facebook.
Re: “The Big Shift”: Internal Facebook Memo Tells Employees to Do Better on Privacy
#9It makes clear in the memo, this is FRL (Oculus), not Facebook as a whole.
Re: “The Big Shift”: Internal Facebook Memo Tells Employees to Do Better on Privacy
#10This is being framed as "prioritizing privacy means we'll make more money in today's environment" which sounds exactly liked how Facebook operates. They don't care about anything except whatever makes them the most money. Today that's (some) privacy apparently. Tomorrow it may not be and they'll already have all your historical data to again start mining/selling/exploiting.