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In 2004, Zuckerberg Broke Into a Facebook User's Private Email Account (2010)

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Re: In 2004, Zuckerberg Broke Into a Facebook User's Private Email Account (2010)

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> growth at any cost is justified. ... captured in the infamous phrase "Move Fast and Break Things"

Big If Things == Law

Things can be Laws, Ethics, and even Human Life as we saw with the responses to recent accidents involving self-driving cars

Re: In 2004, Zuckerberg Broke Into a Facebook User's Private Email Account (2010)

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post #9

Yeahh we need regulations on Facebook. The fact that he retains a majority voting share in the company, the fact that I now have zero trust in Zuckerberg AND Sandberg into doing the right thing, AND that there is no viable competition/users are too psychologically entwined to make the decision to detach from Facebook means the only checks and balances left against this unscrupulous individual is the US government. Un…

Maybe nothing, but in practice this would be hard to do. Access to this data would amount to material support from a company to a presidential campaign which under campaign finance laws would need to be reported and scrutinized.

Additionally, Facebook is not just Mark Zuckerberg and likely the company would not like the data being used that way because it would risk their relationship with their users, which is far more important than Zuckerberg being president.

Re: In 2004, Zuckerberg Broke Into a Facebook User's Private Email Account (2010)

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post #6

First time I'm hearing about this. Wow. Thanks for posting. Was there never a criminal in investigation?

I'd be shocked if there was a criminal investigation into one college student snooping on another's email account.
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