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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."

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  1. Why Facebook Won't Stop Invading Your Privacy by Yvan256 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Because it's a perv?

  2. Re:In other news... by BitZtream · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, Elvis is not dead, he just went home.

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  3. Re:In other news... by gorzek · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just knew that would be the first reply I got. Thank you, Slashdot, for not letting me down.

  4. Re:No one cares by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 4, Funny

    My posts aren't supposed to be public. They are supposed to private, just between me and my 5,000 closest friends.

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  5. FB cares about privacy by jDeepbeep · · Score: 4, Funny

    FB cares about privacy in the same way that McDonald's cares about nutrition.

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  6. Re:This is why we can't have nice things, children by lennier · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you actually use your real name and personal information on any social networking site, then you are an idiot, plain and simple.

    Exactly!

    That's why I always walk around outside wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, a biohazard suit and use a different alias at every shop. Can't let just anyone know my real face or true name - and who knows what dark magics they might weave with a lock of my hair?

    Plus it makes everyone who comes to the help desk at work really quiet.

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