What a massively unpleasant troll. All based on a simple fallacy: "If all it takes to break a privacy system is for one of your friends to copy and repost your

What a massively unpleasant troll. All based on a simple fallacy: "If all it takes to break a privacy system is for one of your friends to copy and repost your “private” photos or tweets then they’re not private at all." By the same measure, no email is private, no hand-written letter, no whispered conversation, no Top Secret document. That's not how privacy works. Privacy is about trust between humans, and our understanding of what's private includes the assumption that we'll have to trust the other people involved. Where there's technology involved, there is a different standard: if it pledges to be secure, we expect the only leaks to come via the humans. I expect GMail to take pretty extensive steps to keep my email private, for instance, but I don't expect them to stop my friend forwarding my email to a third party. Facebook was originally billed as a trustworthy piece of technology. Things could leak from it, but they'd leak via other people, not via the software. Now they've quietly changed the rules and are merrily leaking away. That's privacy invasion, and no amount of blaming the victim will change that.