People believing the FB was eavesdropping on their conversations might be wrong, but that's mostly a technicality. It's like saying that I passed out because yo

People believing the FB was eavesdropping on their conversations might be wrong, but that's mostly a technicality. It's like saying that I passed out because you hit me with a baseball bat, to which you'd reply: naaa...ah! it was a hockey stick! FB has been/is spying on people and making us collectively more stupid, but using different, more esoteric/harder to explain methods (e.g. cross-device behavioural targeting). > Those companies need to earn our trust. How can we help them do that? This is a wicked problem and such a broad question (+ a bit of a weird take imho), that I don't see anything actionable. So, here's a half-baked list off the top of my head (so, poorly expressed, incomplete, incoherent): - slow down the ill-conceived progress at all cost and understand that moving fast in the wrong direction ≠ progress - force stricter transparency rules through legislative action - understand and accept that no-trust should be the default - invest more in open and offline models - educate people - accept that some of those companies in their current shape don't deserve our trust Edit: This is a better take: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=38643792&goto=item%3Fid%3D38643046%2338643792 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=38643792&goto=item%3Fi...