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This was my first question at job interview to Facebook. Luckily i got an indian developer and i knew about how aggressive facebook in his home country (does ev
by ex3ndr 9y ago
This was my first question at job interview to Facebook. Luckily i got an indian developer and i knew about how aggressive facebook in his home country (does everybody remembers free basics?) and i asked about what he thinks. Answer was simple - this is a form of a competition. I think "competition" can easily justify doing shady things - any of your competitors eventually will do the same and because of this there are no reason to not to implement something like phone book scraping.
- muzani 9y agoAh, the dodgy salesman approach: "If they don't buy our useless thing, they will buy the same useless thing from one of our competitors anyway!"
- pavlov 9y agoMaybe more like: "If we don't send someone to sneak around our customers' houses looking for clues of what they might buy, one of our competitors would do the same! Besides, it's the customer's fault if they leave the door unlocked."
- dingo_bat 9y ago> Besides, it's the customer's fault if they leave the door unlocked." More like: > Besides, it's the customer's fault if invite us inside their home and willingly hand over the keys to the cupboards.
- pavlov 9y agoBoth Android and Facebook use a passive security model. They didn’t ask for permission, but buried it in small print and pretended that’s good enough.
- test6554 9y agoMore like "lets make an online environment so comfortable for users that they are mentally fooled into thinking it is like their home away from home and they will say and do whatever is on their mind, even private thoughts."
- jacques_chester 9y agoTwo wrongs don't make a right. "Aw, but everyone else is doing it!" has never been the basis of a respectable system of morality. It's playground ethics.
- drjesusphd 9y agoWell, many people seem to excuse luminaries of the past for things like slavery saying things like "It was a different time. They should only be judged through the lens of their own culture." It might not be a respectable system of morality, but it's a popular one.
- jacques_chester 9y agoI hardly think 10 years ago qualifies for this point of view.
- phunehehe0 9y agoIt took me a while to find this fallacious argument is called "argumentum ad populum".
- icc97 9y agoKind of a tragedy of the commons, where personal data is the commons.
- danpalmer 9y agoI heard exactly the same rationalisation from a bunch of ex-Cambridge Analytica people (not kidding).