California says Facebook dodged privacy subpoenas
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#3I can never really understand Facebook's approach to dealing with legal pressure surrounding its privacy practices.
Increased data privacy regulation could be an existential threat to Facebook's business model—but instead of trying to make a positive impression of itself by cooperating with lawmakers (and potentially helping to shape the regulation itself in the process), it misleads and stonewalls.[0]
What's Facebook's long-term plan here? Do they think they will be able to fend off governments forever and eventually become supranational?
[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-misled-parliament-on-d...
Re: California says Facebook dodged privacy subpoenas
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Re: California says Facebook dodged privacy subpoenas
#5I can never really understand Facebook's approach to dealing with legal pressure surrounding its privacy practices. Increased data privacy regulation could be an existential threat to Facebook's business model—but instead of trying to make a positive impression of itself by cooperating with lawmakers (and potentially helping to shape the regulation itself in the process), it misleads and stonewalls.[0] What's Faceboo…
Maybe the goal is to make complying with the regulation so cumbersome (but ultimately ineffective) that competitors, who aren't already large and profitable, have no way of entering the social media market? They can have their cake and eat it too... oh we'd so love to prevent "horrible thing" from happening again, but you know the government won't let us ;^)
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#6Dodging and ignoring has worked for them before:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2016/07/29/fac...
Re: California says Facebook dodged privacy subpoenas
#7I can never really understand Facebook's approach to dealing with legal pressure surrounding its privacy practices. Increased data privacy regulation could be an existential threat to Facebook's business model—but instead of trying to make a positive impression of itself by cooperating with lawmakers (and potentially helping to shape the regulation itself in the process), it misleads and stonewalls.[0] What's Faceboo…
Maybe the goal is to make complying with the regulation so cumbersome (but ultimately ineffective) that competitors, who aren't already large and profitable, have no way of entering the social media market? They can have their cake and eat it too... oh we'd so love to prevent "horrible thing" from happening again, but you know the government won't let us ;^)
bingo the oh lets do the MS App api strategy in new form
Re: California says Facebook dodged privacy subpoenas
#8I can never really understand Facebook's approach to dealing with legal pressure surrounding its privacy practices. Increased data privacy regulation could be an existential threat to Facebook's business model—but instead of trying to make a positive impression of itself by cooperating with lawmakers (and potentially helping to shape the regulation itself in the process), it misleads and stonewalls.[0] What's Faceboo…
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Re: California says Facebook dodged privacy subpoenas
#9I can never really understand Facebook's approach to dealing with legal pressure surrounding its privacy practices. Increased data privacy regulation could be an existential threat to Facebook's business model—but instead of trying to make a positive impression of itself by cooperating with lawmakers (and potentially helping to shape the regulation itself in the process), it misleads and stonewalls.[0] What's Faceboo…
They can always just ensure people who like them get elected. Facebook has a significant influence on elections now.
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#10"we have provided thousands of pages of written responses and hundreds of thousands of documents"
I see that all the time when people haven't actually provided the requested info, whether a company or a local, state, or federal agency. It's often a form of BS.
Technically every DB entry could be considered a document, but if you haven't provided emails from the CEO, you haven't provided emails from the CEO.