Re:Facebook had ample warning about privacy problems with “c...
by FabHK on Sunday April 11, 2021 @10:29AM
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> What I did not see during my tenure there is any malicious intent, people genuinely wanted to build a valuable product and make broken stuff better.
But the argument is not that the many individual well intentioned engineers at Facebook (or even Zuckerberg himself) set out maliciously to create a monster; but rather that the confluence of new technology, human nature, incentives, advertisement, tracking etc. has resulted in something that has many negative consequences (which might exceed the positives); and of which they profit very handsomely.
But the argument is not that the many individual well intentioned engineers at Facebook (or even Zuckerberg himself) set out maliciously to create a monster; but rather that the confluence of new technology, human nature, incentives, advertisement, tracking etc. has resulted in something that has many negative consequences (which might exceed the positives); and of which they profit very handsomely.