FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization

Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by x86_64Ubuntu on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @05:46PM (#25366410)

So there aren't things known between my friends and I that we wouldn't want divulged to a third-party?

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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by mindcrime on Thursday December 10, 2020 @11:12AM (#25375211)

So there aren't things known between my friends and I that we wouldn't want divulged to a third-party?

I'm not sure how you got that from what I said above. Obviously there are such things. But I do think it's an open question to what extent we can compel our friends to keep things private. Of course if someone is really a "friend" you would expect them to keep confidences if requested... that's part of the definition of "friend" in my mind.

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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by alisonkisk on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @08:11PM (#25368180)

Want is different from entitled.

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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by x86_64Ubuntu on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:28PM (#25369298)

Then we have to dispense away with the whole privacy nonsense that runs rampant on HN concerning things such as ad tracking, location tracking and other data metrics. Because in that case, instead of the friend giving away our data, it's a 3rd party with whom we have a voluntary relationship with who is giving away THEIR data that we generate.

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