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Mozilla Launches a Petition Asking Facebook To Do More For User Privacy (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the have-some-shame dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: After it was revealed that the personal data of 50 million Facebook users was shared without consent, Mozilla is calling on the social network to ensure that user privacy is protected by default, particularly when it comes to apps.

Ashley Boyd, Mozilla's vice president of advocacy, says that billions of Facebook users are unknowingly at risk of having their data passed on to third parties. He says: "If you play games, read news or take quizzes on Facebook, chances are you are doing those activities through third-party apps and not through Facebook itself. The default permissions that Facebook gives to those third parties currently include data from your education and work, current city and posts on your timeline."

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  1. It is FB's business model by aepervius · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Their business model is to break as much privacy as they can get away and sell the data. And you ask them to reduce/stop that ? LOL. I have a bridge to sell you. They won't stop or do anything until forced by law, or forced to change their business model by having too many people bleed out of their platform. And that's it. Hoping for anything else is being incredibly naive.

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    1. Re: It is FB's business model by c6gunner · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Problem is, Facebook tracks you regardless of whether you use their services.

  2. Facebook launches a counter petition.... by Kenja · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... asking Mozilla to stop making web browsers. More or less the same thing.

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  3. Mozilla? by reboot246 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You mean the makers of a browser I don't use anymore because they don't care about privacy at all? That Mozilla?
    That's rich, really rich.