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A company considering its users its product can't get much lower IMO. Remember that time they experimented on users' emotional states without any consent or inf
by Grangar 7y ago
A company considering its users its product can't get much lower IMO. Remember that time they experimented on users' emotional states without any consent or informing? [1]
This is when they started to show their true cards. To me FB is on its own level far below even oil companies and big banks, probably around the same ranking as PMCs. You'd be far pushed to find me something worse.
Apple is no saint but FB's total disregard to its responsibility and position in the world is so much worse.
1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook-manipulated-689003-users-emotions-for-science/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...
- cthaeh 7y agoNot really when that service is offered free of charge. I am pretty sure most people in India, Africa don't give a shit that Facebook uses their data to serve them ads. They and the world, gets an invaluable service in return. I certainty don't care.
- gerbilly 7y agoFacebook uses their data today to target ads. What the data gets used for later by Facebook, the government or organized crime, when it inevitably gets stolen, is anybody's guess.
- cthaeh 7y agoApple uses their data today to create various products. What the data gets used for later by Apple, the government or organized crime, when it inevitably gets stolen, is anybody's guess.