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Your point being ?

• crunchlibrarian 8y ago
  I think the point is that actual honesty from these megacorps would be so surprising that even raising the possibility of it happening is so absurd it feels like parody writing.
  • BryantD 8y ago
    Last week Facebook was reasonably transparent about a hack affecting tens of millions of users.
    • crunchlibrarian 8y ago
      This may be the first time in the history of the internet a statement from Facebook has ever been held up as an example of honesty and transparency from a corporation in America. The GDPR has already called out Facebook for lack of info in its response to the breach: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/facebooks-muddy-account-breach-response-could-be-the-new-norm.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/facebooks-muddy-account-brea... Not sure why you'd pick that example.
      • BryantD 8y ago
        Mostly because I believe that, while it's important to maintain healthy skepticism around privacy and security issues, I also believe that we don't benefit from cynical hyperbole.
    • enraged_camel 8y ago
      That's because they have been under tremendous scrutiny recently.