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Facebook Home destroys any notion of privacy

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Re: Facebook Home destroys any notion of privacy

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"This future is going to happen – and it is too late to debate. However, the problem is that Facebook is going to use all this data — not to improve our lives — but to target better marketing and advertising messages at us."

A little sensationalized? It's most definitely a strong mix of both sides, not everyone at Facebook is "evil". Honestly I think most of us can agree Facebook on average is useful service that has improved our lives. So yes it will probably help target us, the product, better to marketing/advertising.

As more and more promising services get absorbed or shutdown maybe it'll get clearer and clearer that if you dont want your data to be the product itself then we should start paying for the services we care about.

Re: Facebook Home destroys any notion of privacy

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"This future is going to happen – and it is too late to debate. However, the problem is that Facebook is going to use all this data — not to improve our lives — but to target better marketing and advertising messages at us." A little sensationalized? It's most definitely a strong mix of both sides, not everyone at Facebook is "evil". Honestly I think most of us can agree Facebook on average is useful service that has…

>>It's most definitely a strong mix of both sides, not everyone at Facebook is "evil".

Devil's Advocate: Note everyone in the third reich was evil.

p.s. No need to mention Godwin's law. I know about it.

Re: Facebook Home destroys any notion of privacy

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"This future is going to happen – and it is too late to debate. However, the problem is that Facebook is going to use all this data — not to improve our lives — but to target better marketing and advertising messages at us." A little sensationalized? It's most definitely a strong mix of both sides, not everyone at Facebook is "evil". Honestly I think most of us can agree Facebook on average is useful service that has…

Does creating their own launcher give them any data on non-FB applications used on the phone?

Re: Facebook Home destroys any notion of privacy

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The article brings up a very good point about FB getting access to a lot more user data on the phone outside of their app since they essentially are replacing the app launcher as well. Google gets access to all this data by owning the OS. FB in that sense made a brilliant play. It kind of corrupts google's data collection as well since all user interaction will be going through the FB Home app now.

Also its kind of naive to expect facebook to respect privacy when all they do is deal with data.

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