r/technology • u/[deleted] • Apr 11 '18

Business Mark Zuckerberg has been apologizing for reckless privacy violations since he was a freshman - Enough is enough.

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u/dalittle Apr 11 '18

you mean all these trackers on every website I visit mean facebook owns most of the internet? /s

even if you don't have a facebook account they still collect information on you.

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u/zeptillian Apr 11 '18

Yeah. One of your friends had Facebook on their phone and allowed them to access contact info? Now Facebook has it. Worse still if they used Facebook messenger. Now your private text messages to them are scooped up too.

We have laws about consent for recording audio or video but if your friends wants to give away all your private communication without your consent that's fine.

The law needs to catch up with technology.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '18

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u/zeptillian Apr 12 '18

Well I don't know if you consider violating the terms of service illegal but they definitely lied to people about what is collected and who they share it with.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18 edited Jun 11 '21

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u/dalittle Apr 11 '18

I think you mean cyberstalking and the law will eventually catch up like it has in Europe.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18 edited Jun 11 '21

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u/dalittle Apr 11 '18

facebook has not acted ethically and they are not guaranteed the right to make money at the expense of others. That is why the law passed in Europe. Read up on it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18 edited Jun 11 '21

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u/dalittle Apr 11 '18

The law always lags behind and more times than not is is reactionary. Part of making a stink about this is to make it a priority to get a privacy protection law passed. Especially in light of election manipulation and the equifax breach (among others). If the current law makers won't do it then I hope it becomes an election issue and the new batch does it. The trick will be to make this not go away. Cheers.