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How is Facebook sharing their database with the government breaking the constitution?
by gnaritas 13y ago
How is Facebook sharing their database with the government breaking the constitution?
- nitrogen 13y agoIt may be their database, but it's our lives.
- a3_nm 13y agoPeople can put their lives on Facebook's database, it's still Facebook's database. The problem is not that Facebook is sharing this information, it is that people are sharing it with Facebook.
- nitrogen 13y agoI'm aware of the distinction, but the average person out there doesn't think of themselves as sharing with Facebook the company, they think they are sharing with their friends.
- gnaritas 13y agoThe law doesn't care what the average person thinks nor does reality. It's the persons responsibility to maintain his own privacy by not posting private information on a public website. If you post something on the Internet, it's going to get out there; people should know this by now and if they don't it's their own damn fault.
- nitrogen 13y agoAccording to this comment by a self-proclaimed lawyer (in training?), the law does care what the average person thinks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5833747 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5833747 If people don't know something by now it's equally the fault of the services they use for not educating them about the real implications of what they do online.
- gnaritas 13y ago> the law does care what the average person thinks In regards to battery; please do stop now, you've resorted to using nonsense as argument.
- gnaritas 13y agoWhich you voluntarily shared with Facebook and not a violation of the constitution. If you want privacy, don't share it on the Internet.
- AlexandrB 13y agoThis argument is weak because everything is "shared on the internet" at this point - including phone calls. How is this different than saying "if you want privacy don't share over the postal system" or "if you want privacy don't share over the phone"?
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- gnaritas 13y ago> How is this different than saying "if you want privacy don't share over the postal system" or "if you want privacy don't share over the phone"? Posting something on a website is vastly different than direct person to person communication over the phone or mailing something. Phone calls and snail mail are transient things, the post office and phone company don't keep copies of your conversations and mail for later investigation whereas posting something on a website is communicating through a third party who stores everything in a database for later display, it's not transient, you'd be a fool to post something you want to remain private on Facebook, or any internet website. Phones and mail also enjoy legal protection that the Internet doesn't and Facebook isn't a carrier of transient information, it's a database that stores things possibly forever. They are nothing alike.
- rdtsc 13y agoNot my life. Fuck Facebook I never joined. I did join Google though, and now I regret it. So it is a personal shortcoming. I am not good/disciplined enough to maintain my own mail server.