Re:Mark Zuckerberg calls Obama to complain about NSA
by spacehome on Friday March 14, 2014 @03:47AM
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Facebook can ask me all they want for my data, and I won't give it to them. The feds literally don't give me a choice.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg calls Obama to complain about NSA
by Argorak on Friday March 14, 2014 @04:03AM
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That is true, but moral standpoints are not black/white and Facebooks moral standpoint in the whole privacy debate isn't quite the strongest. Facebook will basically take any interaction with them as a "yes".
Also, Facebook didn't ask me when my friends gave my phone number and address to them.
Zuckerberg has repeatedly shown a lot of moral flexibility on those issues - so the irony is definitely there.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg calls Obama to complain about NSA
by spacehome on Friday March 14, 2014 @04:37AM
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ok, I concede that point, but none of my friends are giving my info to the NSA, either.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg calls Obama to complain about NSA
by Argorak on Friday March 14, 2014 @01:39PM
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Sure, but we are still talking about Zuckerberg trying to make a moral argument about vast personal data collection.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg calls Obama to complain about NSA
by XorNot on Friday March 14, 2014 @06:01AM
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I hope you don't know anyone who uses Facebook, takes a picture with you in it and puts it on Facebook, or you know, have any web presence at all.
Of course to some extent I would also argue this is where things get grey - in a practical sense, private individuals do not, and have never, existed in civil society. Civil society necessitates making parts of your life public.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg calls Obama to complain about NSA
by halviti on Friday March 14, 2014 @05:15AM
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Facebook was caught red handed profiling literally everyone on the internet.
Every website that you ever visited with a "like" button, even porn sites. They compiled all of that information about "you" via cookies they put on your computer.