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“How dare the NSA spy on Facebook users. Their informations are property of Facebook."
by 37prime 13y ago
“How dare the NSA spy on Facebook users. Their informations are property of Facebook."
- DominikR 13y agoWho else should own the data if not Facebook?
- dredmorbius 13y agoThe users, and/or non-user individuals whose data it is.
- roymurdock 13y agoWhen you accept the terms of agreement, you trade your data for the privilege of accessing and using the site. Information doesn't become data until it's recorded through the use of a website. If privacy is an urgent concern for you, then why use Facebook in the first place? It's basically a public forum where you share things, creating data. It's ridiculous (at least in this day and age) to think that Facebook would provide such an extensive service for free. You're going to pay for it with your data.
- dredmorbius 13y agoWhen you accept the terms of agreement I'm not a Facebook user. Whose user agreement governs the use of my data on Facebook? Dittos for Google or other data aggregators who acquire data from elsewhere. And/or ignore the explicit stated preferences of users. And/or change the rules governing data use post-facto.
- samsolomon 13y agoWell, users are volunteering their information to Facebook. They aren't doing it for the government.
- dredmorbius 13y agousers are volunteering their information to Facebook. Not those whose data are shadow-profile generated, or is provided by others.
- simias 13y agoFacebook is opt-in.
- ta_fbp 13y agoNot really no. Facebook has been known for a while for building profiles of unregistered people and tracking them around. Then people you know offline who are on facebook will rat tons of information about you all the time. People are just submitting personal information without a second thought. Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask. Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks.
- simias 13y agoFair enough, but then at least with plugins like "disconnect" & friends it's opt-out. We really shouldn't have to do that, I agree, but that's the state of the web in 2014. I wonder if the NSA complies with the "DO NOT TRACK" header.