Re:People Freak Out About Privacy On Facebook, But Ignore Go...
by ahallock on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @07:59PM
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If Facebook removed all privacy controls, people would leave the social network in droves, and FB would be forced change their policy. Consumers are fickle, and FB is not an unstoppable juggernaut; I'm not sure why people have this idea.
If their board decided they could increase profit by x% by deleting all privacy controls tomorrow then all privacy controls could be removed tomorrow.
In theory at least a democratic government has no particular interest in sharing your data with anybody apart from maybe a few intelligence and law enforcement officials who want to check that you're not actually trying to kill anyone. They also have to vote on any major legislation changes, enough unfavourable bills and they risk getting thrown out at the next election.