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A lot of people are missing the point, debating whether this was reasonable or not. Mark got away with telling Congress ~"we don't share with third parties" an
by arh68 8y ago
A lot of people are missing the point, debating whether this was reasonable or not.
Mark got away with telling Congress ~"we don't share with third parties" and now they're saying Blackberry's not a third party.
If it's all okay, why didn't Mark come clean? and tell his Congressmen? He had a chance to explain this arguably-harmless behavior, but he chose to sidestep it. Why? Did he not understand the question?
It's fine that this data-sharing is maybe reasonable. It's not fine that Mark withheld this from Senators. This is exactly what they were asking about, and given the chance to explain, he chooses silence. He gets to avoid the public debate while the techies argue amongst themselves.
- Sacho 8y agoIt seems like Mark would always have to answer 'yes' to that question, since accessing Facebook via the web means you share your data with Google(Chrome), Mozilla(Firefox), Microsoft(IE), etc.. (Also any OS/kernel manufacturers who get access to your data through your usage of the OS or TCP/IP stack). Facebook is sharing your data with Blackberry in the same manner. I don't even see a consent difference, since you need to explicitly consent to sharing your data by entering your Facebook user/password into the Blackberry UI app. Similar to how you write your user and password into Chrome, thus "sharing your data" with Google. It also doesn't seem like there's any evidence that the UI apps were intended to secretly collect and store data(Was "The Hub" an unknown feature?) I don't believe the evidence presented here invalidates Mark's answer. His answer would have been meaningless if he had taken the definition of "third party" put forward in the NYT.