Why Facebook Won't Stop Invading Your Privacy

GMGruman writes "Every few weeks, it seems, Facebook is caught again violating users' privacy. A code error there, rogue business partners there. The truth, as InfoWorld's Bill Snyder explains, is that Facebook will keep on violating your privacy, no matter what its policies say, what promises it makes, or how shocked it claims to be at the latest incident. The reason is simple: Selling personal information on its users is how it makes money, and Facebook is above all a business."

Comments

hmm

[Ryanrule]

Advertising needs to be HEAVILY regulated. Regulate it like nuclear waste. Advertising also needs severe first amendment restrictions.

Re:No one cares

[ceoyoyo]

Who cares. Your friends are right.

Unless you're an idiot (and there are lots of those) Facebook provides a useful service in exchange for harvesting some data. Facebook knows I like kayaking, sailing and photography, and it puts up some ads for those things. It also knows my name, e-mail address and the general area I live in. Whoopdee do.

Google also provides a useful service, and knows those things plus a hell of a lot of others, and also puts up ads.

Re:This is why we can't have nice things, children

[kheldan]

So? Why do you feel the need to protect everyone?

How is that any of your business? If you don't like what I have to say then you can ignore it, and if you don't agree with it then you can give your whole life away to the fucking internet for all I care.

And really, what are they losing? Probably the same stuff we've all already given to Google.

Really? I do regular Google searches for my legal name and nothing comes up, because I was never so stupid as "give up" anything to them in the first place. Problem?