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Honest question: has Facebook done anything to indicate that they are willing and able to protect user data? Because social and financial are two words that I d
by stewartbutler 12y ago
Honest question: has Facebook done anything to indicate that they are willing and able to protect user data? Because social and financial are two words that I don't like seeing near each other. I ask because I deleted my account years ago because I felt I had too little control over what was shared and with who, concerning when the service is from a company with no financial incentive to keep any data private. I have no idea if those behaviors have changed and no real interest in looking into it myself.
- mcintyre1994 12y agoI very rarely post to Facebook but I do feel that I know who my data is shared with when I do. They seem to have stopped their ridiculous habit of resetting all my privacy settings to public now as well. Like Google I imagine they do actually try to protect the data they have beyond what I explicitly share at least to the extent it's not sold (I'm assuming they use the same model as Google and sell ads from the data instead of just selling the data, but their ads are so badly targeted it's hard to tell). That said I don't see myself giving them financial details because I don't really know what they do with data that's not explicitly shared by users (which like I said has become a lot clearer) and I don't really particularly trust them. Plus I'd be amazed if they ever managed to show an ad I was remotely interested in.