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I love hacker news but this is one trigger topic where the community goes a little crazy. Your comment is entirely rational and yet it’s been downvoted to the
by pembrook 7y ago
I love hacker news but this is one trigger topic where the community goes a little crazy.
Your comment is entirely rational and yet it’s been downvoted to the bottom. Privacy is an extremely important issue, but it’s 100% clear in this case that Facebook is not doing anything nefarious here.
I’ve got a buddy in growth marketing who tells me any headline inciting privacy hysteria is a super easy way to game the front page here.
- jesterson 7y agoCommunity goes crazy because community values it's privacy, while big corporations are exploiting it for obvious reasons. You are saying FB is not doing anything nefarious here like Cambridge Analytica never existed. And it's only one thing we know - how many leakages - or shall we call it deliberate exploitation of personal information - we were not aware of? While corporations will continue dealing with private data as they please without letting us know, those cases will gain attention.
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago"Nothing to see here, my buddy who abuses peoples' personal data for a living says it's perfectly fine"