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Why you might not want to trust Zuck

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  • #2
    Screaming Monkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭Screaming Monkey


    To manage your privacy on Facebook, you need to navigate
    through 50 settings with more than 170 options.

    http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/12/business/facebook-privacy.html

    SM


  • #3
    probe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭probe


    Screaming Monkey wrote: »
    To manage your privacy on Facebook, you need to navigate
    through 50 settings with more than 170 options.

    http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/12/business/facebook-privacy.html

    SM
    Until another day arrives when Zuck decides to escalate the war further, giving you 150 settings with 2,500 options to “manage your privacy”. Options that perhaps 5% of Facebooksuckers will become aware of within six months, and 2.5% of them might bother to lock down their profile as needed.

    If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear in Zuck’s “open/transparent society”. So why don’t you publish your Visa and MasterCard numbers on Facebook, complete with card expiry dates, CVV codes, and your postcode (unless you are oirish with no postcode or proper postal address)? It is only your friends who will get access to these data anyway – so you have nothing to worry about. But then Zuck appears to think that you are a “dumb *uck” for using Facebook/trusting him if one is to believe the above story. And one suspects that it is one of Zuck’s “friends” that revealed the IM chat in the article – so if you live in Zuck-land, can you trust your friends?

    One would be forgiven for thinking to oneself that this is the personal privacy/security equivalent of sub-prime mortgages, liar loans and securitization of same. The data privacy authorities in Europe seem to be doing nothing to regulate social networking data harvesting – any more than the ECB took effective measures to ration EUR capital (our money) to prevent a global asset bubble.

    How do these “Beamteren”* justify their salary if they aren’t doing the job?

    *http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamter (read “bureaucrats” if you are in a hurry)


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