Americans Less Likely To Trust Facebook than Rivals on Personal Data (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday March 26, 2018 @02:50AM from the tells-something dept.

Opinion polls published on Sunday in the United States and Germany cast doubt over the level of trust people have in Facebook over privacy, as the firm ran advertisements in British and U.S. newspapers apologizing to users. From a report: Fewer than half of Americans trust Facebook to obey U.S. privacy laws, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday, while a survey published by Bild am Sonntag, Germany's largest-selling Sunday paper, found 60 percent of Germans fear that Facebook and other social networks are having a negative impact on democracy [...] The Reuters/Ipsos online poll found that 41 percent of Americans trust Facebook to obey laws that protect their personal information, compared with 66 percent who said they trust Amazon.com, 62 percent who trust Alphabet's Google, 60 percent for Microsoft Corp..

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To follow the law? Yes. The law to protect me? No. by argumentsockpuppet · 2018-03-26 03:01 · Score: 3, Interesting

Breaking the law is bad business and it typically ends up costing more in lawyers and fines than following it would. That's kind of the point.
But who thinks the laws protect their private data? You click EULAs with these companies agreeing that they can do what they want and that you can't sue them for it. The laws protect the companies, if they didn't, they'd get new laws.