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It was yours to share because it was shared with you.
by downandout 9y ago
It was yours to share because it was shared with you.
- Xylakant 9y agoThat's just not how it works. Apps could for example request access to all messages. Let's make that a physical world example: I write you a letter that contains private details. Are you free to share this letter with third parties? The established legal precedent is clearly "no, not at all." Another example: I allow you to peek into my diary. I shared my private thoughts with you. Are you now allowed to go out and trumpet those out in the world? No, not by any standard. So the default assumption is that things shared privately are private, not public. There are cases where a higher good allows to breach that assumption, but "financial gain" has never been accepted as a higher good in such cases. Failing to honor that assumption is facebooks fault here.
- downandout 9y agoThat's just not how it works Actually, that is how it works. Unless there is an NDA in place between you and I, I can share anything you choose to share with me, especially in the context of a social network where we both agreed to and are bound by the same TOS where we authorized exactly this kind of sharing.
- icebraining 9y agoIn what jurisdiction? That's not true in the EU (even pre-GDPR), where Facebook also operates.
- rhizome 9y agoMy heuristic is that if they don't make it clear what jurisdiction they're talking about, they're talking about the US.
- icebraining 9y agoMy comment is a bit of a passive-aggressive pushback against that :)
- pjc50 9y agoNot in GDPR land.