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I think you are expecting too much from FB here. FB offers a service that allows you to share your pictures with your friends among other things. Before you up

I think you are expecting too much from FB here. FB offers a service that allows you to share your pictures with your friends among other things. Before you upload a picture Facebook asks you if you have all of the rights to the pictures you are uploading (albeit they ask that in the fine print of their TOS.) FB offers ancillary services based on those images you shared. If you are uploading images you don’t have the rights to how is this FB’s problem?

ehnto 7y ago
It doesn't mean they did their due diligence to confirm their data was clean of non-consenting individuals. They are clearly abusing their users ignorance. Signed T&Cs of one person shouldn't be enough when you're dealing with PII of multiple people in my opinion. You need everyone's explicit consent. There is a disparity here between real world and software services I think. When my real estate agent's software asked me to put in my room mates details, I just had to check a checkbox that said he consented. Yet when it came to the paper contracts, we all had to sign individually. We need the latter for software, else PII is going to keep spilling all over the place and we'll forget we ever had privacy. I don't think it's unfair to scrutinize a company in such a powerful position as FB either. They know they have unconsenting people in their photo database, it's just inevitable, and they are hiding behind their T&Cs hoping it's enough in the court of law. Ethically, they've failed already, and clearly in some states they're breaking the law too.