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Re:Study: Mass exodus over Facebook privacy flap won't happen by phreeza on Saturday May 29, 2010 @09:34AM (#1388711)
As Tim O'Reilly remarked recently, what we are seeing is not so much a privacy backlash but rather an informed consent backlash.

Many people don't really care that much about privacy any more, but it seems they still don't like being tricked into releasing their info (or being tricked into anything else, for that matter). The way I see it, that is why people won't leave Facebook over privacy issues.

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Re:Study: Mass exodus over Facebook privacy flap won't happen by TheBurningOr on Saturday May 29, 2010 @11:17AM (#1388810)
This line of discussion needs to be seen far more often. I think the biggest problem that the anti-Facebook crowd has is that they've allowed the news narrative to be structured in terms of privacy, when it is far more about personal control of data and informed consent to how that data is used.
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