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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."
when advertising is using our knowledge of the brain, to short circuit peoples decision making, or to compel them to buy things, i think a restriction is needed. remember, its freedom of speech for the people, not the corporations.
Let's see how you feel about that when you become a victim of indentity theft, or when the number of telemarketing calls you receive every month goes up by an order of magnitude. Let's see how comfortable you are with your private and personal information being used by marketers or scammers (not that much difference these days) to specifically target you. Let's see how you feel when your employer demands access to all your social networking pages and/or your job is put in jeopardy because there's something they don't like on them. Let's see how you feel when your entire life is put under the microscope by people you don't even know!
Oh and by the way: if you REALLY feel that way about it, then why not put up live internet cameras in your bedroom so we can watch you have sex with your wife? After all, you have nothing to hide and you honestly don't care with what anyone does with your personal information, right?
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
you're an idiot.
present yourself to me; admit what you've done, then i will kill you.