Re:If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook?
by high_derivative on Saturday April 27, 2019 @09:30AM
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Facebook criminally misleading and deceiving people about how data is used (i.e. email scandal) is a reflection of our own flaws?
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Re:If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook?
by blotter_paper on Saturday April 27, 2019 @09:54AM
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I don't know if OP would agree with that phrasing, but I would. The oft quothed Zuck line about dumb fucks trusting him with their info for reasons he didn't understand dropped nine years ago; if you still trust the devil that called you a dumb fuck for trusting him, that's certainly a reflection of your own flaws. We have a more general Zuck-agnostic flaw of sharing information with entities that could misuse it, whether or not they've called us dumb fucks yet. I feel like engineering solutions to this would be more clever and secure than legislative ones. It's not that I want a company that shares my private information to be fined, it's that I don't want them to have my private information in the first place.