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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by BoiledCabbage on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @09:41PM (#18712586)
It is absolutely obscene how much of a breach of trust and decency these are.

Facebook still hasn't fully come clean because they knew they were doing unsavory activities and just wanted to not get caught and keep getting away with it.

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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by rhizome on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @02:18AM (#18713803)
If worse comes to worst, they can become a credit rating agency.

There should be a CFAA for personal information.

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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by wtmt on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @07:45AM (#18715209)
Slightly related: The Chinese government is already working on a social credit rating system using mass surveillance. I shudder to even imagine living in such a world.
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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by rhizome on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @03:41PM (#18719373)
They may merely be one step ahead.
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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by wmeredith on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @10:21PM (#18712752)
I’m sure Zuck will offer a heartfelt apology.
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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by doodliego on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:26AM (#18713537)
Hopefully from Federal prison with a life sentence. Literally billions of times he and his execs, managers, and engineers have violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Federal Wiretap Act, and more.
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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by alexis_fr on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:41AM (#18713593)
Facebook could be considered as a strategic military asset, as it is capable of quite accurately mapping people around the world. Relationships between people in Iran, same place same time, same IP, ghost profiles...

If you were the CIA, wouldn’t you work on protecting/ preventing such people from having a trial?

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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by molteanu on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:54AM (#18713658)
Of course it is. I agree with your comment. I also think FB is the work of secret services, from its inception to the present day. I've seen Zuck talk, and he doesn't strike me as a specially smart guy. But he's young and always smiling, shows enthusiasm and that's what people need. It's a nice cover.
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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by jkravitz61 on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @04:04AM (#18714278)
If you don’t look at Facebook’s origin story this could almost be believable.
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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by sangnoir on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @05:39AM (#18714709)
The Onion is ahead[1] of y'all

1. https://www.theonion.com/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-...

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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by Scoundreller on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @10:11AM (#18716093)
In [2011]
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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by dang on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:05PM (#18717131)
If you continue to post flamebait we will ban you again.
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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by jjulius on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @10:33AM (#18716276)
>How Zuck doesn't seem smart? Have you seen " the social network "

Because watching Zuckerberg played by someone else in a dramatized Hollywood film is a great way to tell if he is smart.

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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by InGodsName on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:06AM (#18716577)
Watch Zuck testifying in Capital Hill and contrast it with "The Social Network", he really acts the same way everywhere.

The movie is correct potryal of his character.

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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by jjulius on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:37PM (#18728890)
You're saying that Jesse Eisenberg matching the mannerisms and manner of speaking is a good way to determine how smart Mark Zuckerberg is?
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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by dang on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:07PM (#18717149)
Personal attacks are not ok here, regardless of whom you're attacking. Maybe you don't owe better to reviled $billionaire but you owe much better to this community.

If you'd please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use this site as intended from now on, we'd appreciate it.

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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by adamson on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @10:09AM (#18716063)
> The infiltration of the ivy league by the CIA

What does this even mean? I can't imagine many more wasteful uses of government revenue than approaching dull undergraduates and coercing them into starting clandestine programs that prey on their peers.

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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by scottlocklin on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @02:06PM (#18718325)
That's where they recruit from.
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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by pmarreck on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:14AM (#18716641)
How does that saying go?

"If you owe the bank a million dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, you own the bank."

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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by wtmt on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @07:42AM (#18715193)
> Hopefully from Federal prison with a life sentence. Literally billions of times he and his execs, managers, and engineers have violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Federal Wiretap Act, and more.

Preferably multiple life sentences to ensure he can never get out or create another monstrosity like FB. Also get laws created/strengthened against such repeat abusers of people.

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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by Puer on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:46AM (#18713620)
They'll go right in the same comfy cell as the Equifax execs. Oh wait...
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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by nathancahill on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @11:14PM (#18712958)
10 DO heartfelt_apology GOTO 10
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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by throwaway6488 on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:10AM (#18713478)
Zuckerberg isn't a robot - he's entitled, overconfident, and underappreciative of the depth or complexity of the world beyond his experience or the impact of his actions upon it. Further, he shows no hesitation in imposing his will on others despite those shortcomings, and is entrenched in his perspective and tactics rather than open to learning. More briefly - he's a jerk.
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