Facebook manages the public and private lives of over a billion people and is publicly traded. They will use the former every way legal plausibly deniable to help the latter.
This much power, I'm surprised that people are surprised. At this scale, I'd put a high estimation that there are multiple abuses from:
1) Private citizens who work there
2) Hackers with undisclosed access to their infrastructure
3) Governments around the world that have jurisdiction to suboena them
4) Governments that they want curry favor with (ie Germany, EU, USA)
I would guess that there were breaches that would be a scandal but, were caught quietly and handled internally and never made it out.
They have billions of dollars in the bank, some of the smartest people on the planet and a CEO that wants to change the world.
It's not like a conspiracy. It's just simple math. With software written by humans being as fragile and imperfect as it is and that much information as centralized as it is, it's crazy to trust that it's always stayed safe in the hands of Facebook and that your view of the world through Facebook's filter isn't being changed at all.
Soon to be followed by "Upon further review, some developers may have abused the microphone permission and used it for internally unauthorized purposes."
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Coming after "Facebook doesn't have bias in news" and "Facebook news is purely algorithmically generated", hopefully this will give people pause.
Facebook manages the public and private lives of over a billion people and is publicly traded. They will use the former every way legal plausibly deniable to help the latter.
This much power, I'm surprised that people are surprised. At this scale, I'd put a high estimation that there are multiple abuses from: 1) Private citizens who work there 2) Hackers with undisclosed access to their infrastructure 3) Governments around the world that have jurisdiction to suboena them 4) Governments that they want curry favor with (ie Germany, EU, USA)
I would guess that there were breaches that would be a scandal but, were caught quietly and handled internally and never made it out.
They have billions of dollars in the bank, some of the smartest people on the planet and a CEO that wants to change the world.
It's not like a conspiracy. It's just simple math. With software written by humans being as fragile and imperfect as it is and that much information as centralized as it is, it's crazy to trust that it's always stayed safe in the hands of Facebook and that your view of the world through Facebook's filter isn't being changed at all.
Soon to be followed by "Upon further review, some developers may have abused the microphone permission and used it for internally unauthorized purposes."