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It's not about morals, it's about the law as it is right now. And the truth is that Facebook is breaking our laws and need to be prosecuted for such. As for your argument, why is that a terrible law? Why is it bad that users have a right to know what companies have on them? To be honest, I think it's a pretty bloody great law. Facebook is a victim of itself. If it didn't track users in the first place, it wouldn't be…
> It's not about morals, it's about the law as it is right now. Depends on the discussion. I doubt anybody claims that the laws don't obligate facebook to make the data available, because they do. What people argue is that said laws are bad. > And the truth is that Facebook is breaking our laws and need to be prosecuted for such. That's what we are having an argument about. I agree that they are breaking our laws, bu…
WRONG! Think about all the sites that have Like buttons. Facebook never showed me a form or a checkbox to use that, did they? Yet they're gathering information on the sites I go to and setting up "shadow profiles" (as europe-v-facebook put them).
You're right, Facebook doesn't make me use Facebook -- they're trying to force me to.
And sure, I can just use hosts to block the Facebook site, but I shouldn't have to do that just to stop them from tracking me.