Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy

Re:Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy by KaiserPro on Sunday November 22, 2020 @07:45AM (#25177012)

with respect, thats not the issue. With facebook they only collect "limited" information. Its what they do with it afterwards that matter.

How is it stored, is it secure, how do they anonymise it, who has access to the raw data, what happens when there is a break, is there monitoring, etc etc etc.

They are making a massive honey pot, and we just have to trust them that they are doing good job. (much like facebook....)

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Re:Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy by loopz on Sunday November 22, 2020 @09:10AM (#25177561)

Please don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. There's no obligation to opt-in, and there's risk in everything we do and don't do.

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Re:Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy by raxxorrax on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:49AM (#25184435)

The tool would need to guarantee that the data of a user opting in doesn't contain private information about his contacts which may not have done so.

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Re:Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy by tjpnz on Sunday November 22, 2020 @09:32AM (#25177713)

Facebook doesn't have the greatest security track record. While it wouldn't be productive to argue that one group is inherently more trustworthy than the other it's worth pointing out (as others already have) that the code is available to the public.

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Re:Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy by KaiserPro on Sunday November 22, 2020 @12:06PM (#25179002)

Code being public doesn't mean its secure. See php, django, gnupgp, openssl etc etc etc.

Again, the issue isn't the collection, its the storage, processing and disposal that really matters here.

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Re:Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy by cutemonster on Sunday November 22, 2020 @06:00PM (#25181942)

> its the storage, processing and disposal that really matters

That you can say about almost all web apps? Then almost maybe you shouldn't use the Internet, I start thinking

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Re:Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy by mattnewton on Sunday November 22, 2020 @12:32PM (#25179219)

The last part is the crux of this dispute to me. If the users are opting into this, isn't that the same argument for letting them opt into the Facebook platform itself? Why must we protect them from NYU and not from Facebook?

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