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Not really, because when I go to FaceBook(a social network website) I have a totally different expectation of privacy compared to when i go to Gmail.
by recoiledsnake 15y ago
Not really, because when I go to FaceBook(a social network website) I have a totally different expectation of privacy compared to when i go to Gmail.
- potatolicious 15y agoI think he's referring to the lack of privacy and information control even within Facebook - there are persistent claims from former engineers there that user privacy isn't taken seriously, and that breaches of user privacy by employees occurs often and with relative impunity.
- recoiledsnake 15y agoStill, my point stands, when it comes to email and chatting, I expect 100% privacy, which Google already violated once with Buzz and now seems to be doing the same thing again with Social Circle or whatever. With Facebook, I just assume everything could be made public, so I don't put private info that I don't want others to know.
- kmavm 15y agoAs a current engineer at Facebook, I would be really surprised to read anyone claiming we don't "take it seriously." It absorbs an enormous amount of engineering effort, thought around new products, and even cap ex: computing visibility for objects whose permissions are "friends of friends", for example, is computationally expensive.
- potatolicious 15y agoWhat of the claims that information control is extremely loose internally - i.e., an employee can easily gain access to users' private data without sufficient gating, and that accesses such as these are not easily auditable?
- orangecat 15y agoWhen Zuckerberg is running around saying that wanting to share things with only certain people shows a "lack of integrity" (http://eparnell.net/?p=169 http://eparnell.net/?p=169), it's not an unreasonable preconception.