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I think one of the problems is whilst Facebook doesn't use 'private information other people have generated' it does leverage information your friends have shar
by objclxt 14y ago
I think one of the problems is whilst Facebook doesn't use 'private information other people have generated' it does leverage information your friends have shared in non-obvious ways to a layperson.
If it's unclear or people don't understand how Facebook is making its recommendations and as a result become creeped out then that's a problem - whether or not those recommendations were created according to the privacy policy.
- doctorpangloss 14y agoI think you have an insightful point here. For something like friend recommendations, it seems inherently privacy-violating. And it's a problem Facebook doesn't communicate clearly how the sausage is made. Like you, I don't believe that they need to be so afraid of the consequences—I don't think people will exploit friend recommendations knowing how recommendations are made.