Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionable Privacy Practices

Re:Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionabl... by starbugs on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:05PM (#20167509)

It seems rather hard to find a legal way to outlaw the business model.

I wonder whether there's a way to make spying so unprofitable that the business model simply isn't attractive anymore?

Legislation that would force businesses to pay for collecting user data (maybe a tax on user data) might be a start, but I don't see how something like that could be implemented successfully.

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Re:Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionabl... by smuemd on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:13PM (#20167594)

FB is planetary scale psychoactive technology. Just make it a public health issue.

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Re:Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionabl... by closeparen on Thursday June 13, 2019 @11:34AM (#20175836)

Democracies are accountable only to issues that affect turnout in swing districts. Businesses are accountable to everything that might send transactions to competitors.

It’s quite difficult to stop using Facebook, but it’s effectively impossible to get an electoral outcome changed over a niche technical issue, or even a general one like the trains not working.

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Re:Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionabl... by paulryanrogers on Saturday June 15, 2019 @04:03PM (#20191799)

Agreed. Let's make gerrymandering illegal.

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