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I disagree. Amazon seems to actually care about privacy and takes things like this pretty seriously. One could certainly criticize AMZN data collection, but I t

by cheeze 8y ago

I disagree. Amazon seems to actually care about privacy and takes things like this pretty seriously. One could certainly criticize AMZN data collection, but I think Amazon has shown that it does care about privacy of this data. Mistakes do happen which is unfortunate, and I think there is a good argument for no company, no matter their intentions to record this much data. On the other hand, this is Facebook's business model.

pixxel 8y ago
“Amazon seems to actually care about privacy “ Not according to the NY Times this week. Amazon have been reading your private messages on Facebook. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-privacy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-priva...
- CobrastanJorji 8y ago
  y'know, I never thought about it, but I think I agree with you that being willing to pay another company for access to private information about you probably counts as not caring about your privacy. It's not as bad. It's the difference between paying somebody to tell them secrets about you and selling secrets about you. But it's definitely not a thing a person respectful of your privacy would do.
- tryagainacct 8y ago
  You might want to read the article again. No part of it says that Amazon read private messages on Facebook.
  - bduerst 8y ago
    Yeah, AFAIK it was login-with-facebook partners like Spotify. Were people ever able to login to Amazon with facebook?
lorenzobr 8y ago
I find it's funny how people these days think the problem is with Facebook. Literally every company that has access to users' data has in one way or another some kind of business model based on selling that data. Every day I come across 2 or 3 articles from big newspapers giving Facebook some shit about selling user data. But what about Experian? What about phone carriers? They all sell users' data, maybe anonymous maybe not but they are still making profit on people's privacy. And when some shit goes down, we make a big fuss about it for a few days and then we go back to normal. Equifax anyone? Honestly, companies in the position of making profit on users' data have been doing it for the better part of 15 years now, I don't understand why we are acting so surprised now.

by cheeze 8y ago

pixxel 8y ago

“Amazon seems to actually care about privacy “ Not according to the NY Times this week. Amazon have been reading your private messages on Facebook. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-privacy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-priva...

CobrastanJorji 8y ago
y'know, I never thought about it, but I think I agree with you that being willing to pay another company for access to private information about you probably counts as not caring about your privacy. It's not as bad. It's the difference between paying somebody to tell them secrets about you and selling secrets about you. But it's definitely not a thing a person respectful of your privacy would do.
tryagainacct 8y ago
You might want to read the article again. No part of it says that Amazon read private messages on Facebook.
- bduerst 8y ago
  Yeah, AFAIK it was login-with-facebook partners like Spotify. Were people ever able to login to Amazon with facebook?

lorenzobr 8y ago

I find it's funny how people these days think the problem is with Facebook. Literally every company that has access to users' data has in one way or another some kind of business model based on selling that data. Every day I come across 2 or 3 articles from big newspapers giving Facebook some shit about selling user data. But what about Experian? What about phone carriers? They all sell users' data, maybe anonymous maybe not but they are still making profit on people's privacy. And when some shit goes down, we make a big fuss about it for a few days and then we go back to normal. Equifax anyone? Honestly, companies in the position of making profit on users' data have been doing it for the better part of 15 years now, I don't understand why we are acting so surprised now.