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>Facebook can & will use all this data against your wishes Facebook is limited to what its privacy policy and TOU allow. If Facebook goes beyond that, the FTC,
by declan 13y ago
>Facebook can & will use all this data against your wishes
Facebook is limited to what its privacy policy and TOU allow. If Facebook goes beyond that, the FTC, state attorneys general, and a bevy of bottom-feeding class action lawyers will sue (and win).
Anyone who doesn't understand this -- this is directed at the author of the blog post that started this thread, not the parent post -- has no business writing about privacy.
- enscr 13y ago> Facebook is limited to what its privacy policy and TOU allow That's an utopian interpretation of how corporations work. Most of them have a motto : "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" Proof : A lot of genuine lawsuits...
- declan 13y ago>Proof : A lot of genuine lawsuits... Not quite. The "genuine lawsuits you mention are proof only that (a) bottom-feeding lawyers file meritless lawsuits in hopes of a fat $$$ settlement, or (b) that sometimes even well-intentioned companies make mistakes and do things beyond what their privacy policy and TOU permit.