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A problem with all of the responses here is that they swing and miss at trying to find an allegory that matches this situation, and then conflate their allegory
by jascination 6y ago
A problem with all of the responses here is that they swing and miss at trying to find an allegory that matches this situation, and then conflate their allegory as truth, losing any of the nuances of the Facebook situation.
You can skew these examples to make your point stronger, too. (The Radio in the restaurant is listening to me!)
The only situation that matches is the exact one at hand: Facebook tracked user information in their share/like widgets. Is that ok under the law? It wouldn't surprise me if it was, but I don't I think the laws should be tightened up on this as well.
- rossdavidh 6y agoReally, we can expect this to go all the way to the Supreme Court, and I would not be at all surprised if one of the reasons that the Supreme Court did not quash it is that they know they will have to provide guidance (in the form of a precedent) for lower courts on expectations of privacy in internet situations, but they want to let every court below them kick the tires on this case first so that they can benefit from all of that investigation and discovery before they have to issue a ruling on it.