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It also seems particularly poorly timed when a breach exposing Facebook user phone numbers just made hacker news yesterday. Does anyone really want to trust a
by technofiend 7y ago
It also seems particularly poorly timed when a breach exposing Facebook user phone numbers just made hacker news yesterday. Does anyone really want to trust a dating service that aggressively collects anything and everything about a person and may accidentally share it? Sounds like a stalker's paradise.
- saagarjha 7y agoUnfortunately, I doubt many outside of Hacker News heard about this.
- steve_gh 7y agoLike the BBC? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49594264 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49594264
- scarface74 7y agoFacebook has had plenty of data breaches and in the aggregate no one cared enough to delete their account.
- technofiend 7y ago>no one cares enough to delete their account. That's demonstrably untrue: there are articles at the top of Google results about this very subject including a guide on how to do it on The New York Times that references the breaches. https://www.narcity.com/news/canadians-are-deleting-their-facebook-accounts-after-their-latest-privacy-breach https://www.narcity.com/news/canadians-are-deleting-their-fa... Anecdotally I deleted mine over privacy concerns but it was prior to the breaches. My wife didn't like the fact that friends of friends could see photos of her. She didn't know those people and didn't like it. I was more exasperated by Facebook tweaking privacy knobs through updates and was always to share more not less. So I deleted my account since I couldn't promise that even if I choose privacy settings today that protected her privacy they'd be there tomorrow. Ironically she's still a Facebook customer and has no clue how to change privacy settings, but that's between her and Facebook.