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Re:Zuckerberg Takes Steps to Calm Facebook Employees by tptacek on Sunday March 25, 2018 @08:29PM (#16675560)
That's a really short list of companies, though! There are a lot of companies that each independently hold a ghastly amount of information about random people that have virtually no meaningful controls over this stuff. "No meaningful controls" is the norm.

I'd also say it's the norm among most Fortune 500 non-tech companies.

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Re:Zuckerberg Takes Steps to Calm Facebook Employees by RhodesianHunter on Sunday March 25, 2018 @08:35PM (#16675599)
Yep. Equifax, Experian and Transunion come to mind.
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Re:Zuckerberg Takes Steps to Calm Facebook Employees by tptacek on Sunday March 25, 2018 @08:36PM (#16675612)
Consider also every large adtech firm.
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Re:Zuckerberg Takes Steps to Calm Facebook Employees by kasey_junk on Sunday March 25, 2018 @10:37PM (#16676187)
Even the very largest adtech firms don’t have messenger apps used by millions of people, social graphs of the population or control of large swaths of the internet infrastructure.

That’s not to say I disagree with you, but the data collected is (to me) orders of magnitude less sensitive.

*disclosure: I toil in the adtech mines.

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Re:Zuckerberg Takes Steps to Calm Facebook Employees by harryh on Sunday March 25, 2018 @09:31PM (#16675887)
These are great counterpoints to the view I expressed and does make me reconsider my assumptions somewhat. Thanks!
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