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Compare HN title with actual titles given by the author/publisher: "og:title" content="Federal Judge Stunned by Facebook's `Unscrupulous' Violation of the Law,
by x3blah 6y ago
Compare HN title with actual titles given by the author/publisher:
"og:title" content="Federal Judge Stunned by Facebook's `Unscrupulous' Violation of the Law, Warns of Much Deeper Problems"
<title>Judge Timothy Kelly Stunned by Facebook's Violation of Law
One could argue the HN title suggests the important point of the news story is that the settlement was accepted despite "stunning" privacy violations.
One could argue the author's titles suggest the important point of the news story is that a federal judge was "stunned" by Facebook's violations when approving the FTC settlement.
- greenyoda 6y agoFor the record, I submitted the article with the original title (the text before the comma, due to HN's 80 character limit). The title was later edited by an HN moderator.
- dang 6y agoThe article and especially the title seem a bit tendentious to me, so I googled to try to find another story that quoted the same judge's remarks. I found https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/350552/facebooks-5-billion-settlement-with-ftc-over-st.html https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/350552/facebo... and almost changed the URL to that, but decided in the end to adapt that title instead. Clearly the news here is not just what the judge said during a ruling, but the ruling itself.
- x3blah 6y agoThe ideal post then might be a link to the ruling itself: https://epic.org/privacy/facebook/epic2019-challenge/US-v-Facebook-Opinion-Approving-Deal.pdf https://epic.org/privacy/facebook/epic2019-challenge/US-v-Fa... Through an FOIA request, EPIC found there were over 29,000 outstanding complaints to the FTC against Facebook since the 2012 Consent Order. https://epic.org/privacy/facebook/epic2019-challenge/ https://epic.org/privacy/facebook/epic2019-challenge/