Re:Ask HN: Current and former FB employees, what's the other...
by jmathai on Thursday March 07, 2019 @01:17PM
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Meh .... the same could be said of virtually every job. You'd be hard pressed to find any company (including yours, or your clients if you freelance) who have squeaky clean operations.
By that example do you think everyone working at Nike are using friendly-sounding framing like "making high performance shoes affordable at scale" when really what they're doing is exploiting kids in developing countries?
There is a cost of doing things at scale and living a modern day life where you don't directly benefit from that is virtually impossible.
I'd bet serious money there are. They won't let themselves think of it in terms "exploiting privacy", but use some friendly-sounding framing like "leveraging data collection" which is still inherently inseparable from the exploitation of privacy.