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Facebook Still Doesn't Get It–People Care About Their Privacy
- gregjor 5y agoIronic this is on a site that loads up the browser history so you have to press the back button 2 or 3 times to get off the inc.com page. Pot, kettle.
- a3n 5y agoFacebook does get it. It just doesn't care about what you care about.
- cyanydeez 5y agosome* or not enough to matter*
- cercatrova 5y agoRather, it is we (people in the technical fields) who don't get it. People actually don't care about their privacy.
- actually_a_dog 5y agoThat doesn't explain why 94% of people opted out of tracking when given the option. It's more like "people don't miss their privacy if you don't tell them you're taking it away from them."
- foobiter 5y agopeople who understand what Facebook knows care about privacy. Most people do not understand.
- Barrin92 5y agoStrongly agree with the issue of choice around tracking but I don't like that the article somewhat sidelines Apples own tracking. I do not find the argument convincing at all that Apple tracking anyone is less severe because it happens under the same roof. To pick up the analogy from the piece, if someone tracks me in the shower, I don't care if the house, the showerhead, and the window and the guy peeking are from one or five different companies. Apple also consistently needs to apply the same standards to its own services. Apple's size and reach are not an excuse to justify double standards, if anything it ought to invite more scrutiny. Tracking ought to be defined as the exchange of information between distinct services regardless of the provider of said services, similar to the scrutiny that say, the EU applies to data exchange between WhatsApp and Facebook.
- prepend 5y agoDoes Apple track you? I’m not aware of Apple tracking the behavior and location data that Facebook ever did.
- Barrin92 5y agoApple itself tracks you, yes. (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223). As said above however Apple does not consider this 'tracking' because they don't share the information with third parties.