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Facebook was Caught Secretly Deleting Mark Zuckerberg's Sent Messages

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Re: Facebook was Caught Secretly Deleting Mark Zuckerberg's Sent Messages

#11
OK, I would have done it too. This is a 0.01 on a 1-10 scale. Messages over the years, at 2am or 1pm can be taken out of context and so on and here you have one of the richest people on earth. Of course he could've said "my assistants wrote it" but un-sending does not do much bad to the receiver.

Re: Facebook was Caught Secretly Deleting Mark Zuckerberg's Sent Messages

#13

OK, I would have done it too. This is a 0.01 on a 1-10 scale. Messages over the years, at 2am or 1pm can be taken out of context and so on and here you have one of the richest people on earth. Of course he could've said "my assistants wrote it" but un-sending does not do much bad to the receiver.

Can't they just claim it's an upcoming feature they are testing internally before release, that will be rolled out soon?

Re: Facebook was Caught Secretly Deleting Mark Zuckerberg's Sent Messages

#14

OK, I would have done it too. This is a 0.01 on a 1-10 scale. Messages over the years, at 2am or 1pm can be taken out of context and so on and here you have one of the richest people on earth. Of course he could've said "my assistants wrote it" but un-sending does not do much bad to the receiver.

Can't they just claim it's an upcoming feature they are testing internally before release, that will be rolled out soon?

irony: http://nordic.businessinsider.com/facebook-delete-sent-messa...

Re: Facebook was Caught Secretly Deleting Mark Zuckerberg's Sent Messages

#17

I mean come on, let's not be coy here: Mark Zuckerberg literally can access and manipulate any Facebook data he wants. That's kind of his entire MO.

If you said this about Jeff Bezos and data on AWS, you'd be wrong. That's a bit apples-to-oranges, but what I mean is being an executive in a company does not entail access to customer data retained by the company. I don't expect Facebook to be a good data steward, but they certainly could be. Not to AWS's extent (Facebook can't turn a profit without reading your unencrypted content, currently), but to a minimal exte…

They need to maintain the trust of the marginal user.

It’s going to be fun to spectate and guess where the network effect breaking point might be.

Re: Facebook was Caught Secretly Deleting Mark Zuckerberg's Sent Messages

#18
Is it possible this violates Facebook's consent decree? If they need opt in consent to share information, and need to actually delete information when requested, it would logically follow that deleting information without a user's consent is not kosher.

Re: Facebook was Caught Secretly Deleting Mark Zuckerberg's Sent Messages

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What exactly is the problem here? Why shouldn't the CEO of a company have special capabilities? He owns it after all. You'll be outraged to learn restaurant owners often make things for themselves that's not on the menu.

So your bank manager can dip into your account?
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