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> Of course the idea that you can just drag the CEO up to account for whatever grievances you have against the company and hope to get anything out of it seems
by dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago
> Of course the idea that you can just drag the CEO up to account for whatever grievances you have against the company and hope to get anything out of it seems a bit misguided to me.
Well, we have to restore the long-forgotten idea of responsibility. The CEO is legally responsible for any wrongdoings of the company. He should also be morally responsible for all unethical activities. But Zuck's defense strategy so far is "I see nothing wrong".
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoThat's because the ethics of what Facebook (and by extension, all online companies) do is a relatively new question and business model. Morally questionable maybe, but it's taken e.g. the EU over ten years to finally start realizing what's going on - bit too late if you ask me. Moral grey area, and legally anything happening to actual Facebook users - who agreed to the terms & conditions - is fine. The non-facebook users (and by extension, anyone being picked up by any analytics tooling or other 3rd party) is a different matter however.
- icebraining 8y agoit's taken e.g. the EU over ten years to finally start realizing what's going on The Data Protection Directive is from 1995. The GDPR is only an extension and reformulation of it. For example, the existing law already killed the so-called Safe Harbor that US companies had to move data to the US[1], and forced FB to start providing copies of the data they hold to EU citizens[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Safe_Harbor_Privacy_Principles#Citizen_complaint_about_Facebook_data_safety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Safe_Harbor_Priv... [2] http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data_.html http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data...