Facebook Tweaks Privacy Tools To Ease Discontent Over Data Leak (reuters.com)

Facebook has adjusted privacy settings to give users more control over their information in a few taps, it said on Wednesday, after an outcry over a whistleblower's allegations that members' data was used to sway the 2016 U.S. election. From a report: It put all the settings on one page and made it easier to change and more straightforward to stop apps using data. Until now changing settings had been complex, spread over at least 20 screens, which had frustrated users. The world's largest social network said in a blog post it had been working on the updates for some time but sped things up to appease users' anger over how the company uses their data and as lawmakers around the globe called for strong regulation. "Last week showed how much more work we need to do to enforce our policies and help people understand how Facebook works and the choices they have over their data," Facebook wrote in the blog post on Wednesday.

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they always knew

[Jodka]

I suspect that Facebook has always know that their privacy settings controls were confusing and difficult to use, in fact made them that way on purpose, the more so to profit by selling customer information. They have resorted only now to fixing that preemptively under looming threats of fines and litigation.

Zuckerberg is the Bill Gates of his era. There have always been two Silicon Valley archetypes. Steve Jobs and Elon Musk embody one, those with a powerful ambition to realize something great by means of business. Musk wants futuristic transportation for mankind. Jobs wanted awesome product design for the masses. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, on the other hand, represent pure profiteering. Microsoft products are an abomination which achieved market dominance only because of strategic marketing and Facebook is gross and addictive. The choice between "We can make this better for our customers" or "we can make another dollar" defines who is which.

You can kind of tell who is which type according to who is admired. You see a lot of intense hero worship with Jobs and Musk. Little to none with Gates and Zuckerberg.