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> Signed agreements do not prevent your information from being used in other ways. Breach of contract opens you up to civil liability. Having this agreement cr

> Signed agreements do not prevent your information from being used in other ways. Breach of contract opens you up to civil liability. Having this agreement creates disincentives that wouldn't otherwise exist. "Prevent" doesn't mean to make something physically impossible or remove the ability to choose. Police can prevent drunken driving by announcing they will have DUI checkpoints on New Year's Eve. It doesn't make it physically impossible to drink and drive, but if people choose not to because they want to avoid the consequences, some drunk driving has been prevented.

kolpa 8y ago
Who is liable to whom when user A use a free service B based on an ambiguous agreement, and that service makes an ambiguous agreement with another service C, and C does something that is arguable a violation of one of those agreements? How much restitution am I entitled to for an ambiguous violation of an amorphous concept like privacy? And how much is Facebook entitled to from a partner who (might have) violated that agreement, causing non-measurable harm to me?
- jethro_tell 8y ago
  That's pretty straight and forward, facebook has an obligation to hold up their end of the contract including the partners that license the data. If I have a contract with them, they should be liable for that, if they want to turn around and take it out of the 3rd party's hide with a breach of contract litigation they should do that but it's not the uses responsibility. It's very strange that you'd throw your hands up and say, 'well FACEBOOK didn't do it so you're out of luck.' Facebook did do it by not regulating there third party agreements.
- sonnyblarney 8y ago
  I worked at an F50 corp that built a special FB app for our platform. I worked on the project itself. This is getting a little conspiratorial: contracts are very real, and though I didn't see ours and was not privy to any special user data we might have received, we are very careful about that kind of stuff and liability is a huge, huge deal. A contract stipulating that data has to be protected in a certain manner is a reasonable protection, depending on the sensitivity of the data.
drb91 8y ago
> Police can prevent drunken driving by announcing they will have DUI checkpoints on New Year's Eve. Well, it’s only prevention if it succeeds.... otherwise it’s just a failed attempt.

kolpa 8y ago

Who is liable to whom when user A use a free service B based on an ambiguous agreement, and that service makes an ambiguous agreement with another service C, and C does something that is arguable a violation of one of those agreements? How much restitution am I entitled to for an ambiguous violation of an amorphous concept like privacy? And how much is Facebook entitled to from a partner who (might have) violated that agreement, causing non-measurable harm to me?

jethro_tell 8y ago
That's pretty straight and forward, facebook has an obligation to hold up their end of the contract including the partners that license the data. If I have a contract with them, they should be liable for that, if they want to turn around and take it out of the 3rd party's hide with a breach of contract litigation they should do that but it's not the uses responsibility. It's very strange that you'd throw your hands up and say, 'well FACEBOOK didn't do it so you're out of luck.' Facebook did do it by not regulating there third party agreements.
sonnyblarney 8y ago
I worked at an F50 corp that built a special FB app for our platform. I worked on the project itself. This is getting a little conspiratorial: contracts are very real, and though I didn't see ours and was not privy to any special user data we might have received, we are very careful about that kind of stuff and liability is a huge, huge deal. A contract stipulating that data has to be protected in a certain manner is a reasonable protection, depending on the sensitivity of the data.

drb91 8y ago

> Police can prevent drunken driving by announcing they will have DUI checkpoints on New Year's Eve. Well, it’s only prevention if it succeeds.... otherwise it’s just a failed attempt.