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People 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 peop
by a3_nm 13y ago
People 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.