It's not like they care even a bit. And they wouldn't win any goodwill from it. If you have been zucked, you've been zucked, that is it.
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb f**s.
A good solution to this would be to put a hiring freeze on any ex-Facebooker and claim that if they can overlook Facebook's questionable practices, then they would be a danger for your company and its customers.
Hold employees responsible for the actions of their employer.
You could institute a "two year freeze" for any FB alum. A public statement by an ex-employee rebuking these practices would be enough to sidestep the hiring moratorium, but make them acknowledge how bad their employer is for privacy and democracy.
Especially after what they did with the last US election cycle.
This idea sounds uncannily familiar for anyone from the former Soviet bloc.
Should we also institute public lynching of all employees of companies that had security breaches?
This isn't about a security breach. Facebook is a horrible company and has damaged the world with its unique stances on privacy and data gathering.
> Wow, you spend really a lot of effort on virtue signaling.
By what measure?
I really don't want anyone who is willing to sacrifice their morals around personal privacy and the integrity of our democracy working for me.
If and when I do get the opportunity to hire someone from Facebook to work for me, I will ask them why they worked at Facebook, what they think of the company's ethics, and if they did anything to make the company better for the world.
Perhaps some folks check their ethics at the door when they show up for work, but ethics matter. They don't become unimportant or irrelevant choices in light of our paycheck.
Choosing to work for Facebook says a lot about a person.
I don’t particularly like Facebook or any big corporation FYI.
I don't like it, but it makes some level of sense from their perspective. We tend, globally, to prefer "gentle swat on the back of the hand" level penalties for companies that have behaved terribly.
GDPR allows for fines of up to 4% of global revenue. Unfortunately the agencies that are supposed to enforce it are too feeble to do so.
Interestingly my phone number seems to have been exposed but not my e-mail address. I don't recall providing my phone number to Facebook although I do recall explicitly being asked to. I do however use WhatsApp. I wonder if there's more to this.