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Only 22% of Americans Now Trust Facebook's Handling of Personal Info (fortune.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Fortune:
Facebook is the least trustworthy of all major tech companies when it comes to safeguarding user data, according to a new national poll conducted for Fortune, highlighting the major challenges the company faces following a series of recent privacy blunders. Only 22% of Americans said that they trust Facebook with their personal information, far less than Amazon (49%), Google (41%), Microsoft (40%), and Apple (39%)....
In question after question, respondents ranked the company last in terms of leadership, ethics, trust, and image... Public mistrust extended to Zuckerberg, Facebook's public face during its privacy crisis and who once said that Facebook has "a responsibility to protect your information, If we can't, we don't deserve it." The company subsequently fell victim to a hack but continued operating as usual, including debuting a video-conferencing device intended to be used in people's living rooms or kitchens and that further extends Facebook's reach into more areas outside of personal computers and smartphones. Only 59% of respondents said they were "at least somewhat confident" in Zuckerberg's leadership in the ethical use of data and privacy information, ranking him last among four other tech CEOS...
As for Facebook, the social networking giant may have a difficult time regaining public trust because of its repeated problems. Consumers are more likely to forgive a company if they believe a problem was an aberration rather than a systemic failure by its leadership, Harris Poll CEO John Gerzema said.
The article concludes that "For now, the public isn't in a forgiving mood when it comes to Facebook and Zuckerberg."
In question after question, respondents ranked the company last in terms of leadership, ethics, trust, and image... Public mistrust extended to Zuckerberg, Facebook's public face during its privacy crisis and who once said that Facebook has "a responsibility to protect your information, If we can't, we don't deserve it." The company subsequently fell victim to a hack but continued operating as usual, including debuting a video-conferencing device intended to be used in people's living rooms or kitchens and that further extends Facebook's reach into more areas outside of personal computers and smartphones. Only 59% of respondents said they were "at least somewhat confident" in Zuckerberg's leadership in the ethical use of data and privacy information, ranking him last among four other tech CEOS...
As for Facebook, the social networking giant may have a difficult time regaining public trust because of its repeated problems. Consumers are more likely to forgive a company if they believe a problem was an aberration rather than a systemic failure by its leadership, Harris Poll CEO John Gerzema said.
The article concludes that "For now, the public isn't in a forgiving mood when it comes to Facebook and Zuckerberg."
Same thing I say about Trump's approval rating.
You read the stories about people scalding the fuck out of themselves with ramen noodles or burning their house down trying to deep fry a frozen turkey... and you think gee, maybe these people are just too dumb to live? That feeling.
I think the crazy thing here is that 22% of Americans still trust Facebook with their private data. That number is astonishingly high.
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Apple is lower than Google? WTF kind of poll is that? Google literally sells you out to advertisers as their primary business model.
Given that Apple has something like a 10% market share, I find it amazing that some 29% of people who don't use Apple products trust them anyway. Especially after Apple made it cleared they happily hand over complete phone backups and message history to any law enforcement agency that asks.
That FB is at the bottom doesn't shock me. That Apple is 2nd to last does. So does Google being so high in the rankings. And that Amazon is #1 is also pretty shocking.
My personal trust ratings are: Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, FB.
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I can't imagine anyone saying they trust Facebook with their data.
I want the list of the 22% because I have some emails to send them for all sorts of wonderful products.
Handling of Personal Info. There, FTFY.
The problem is not just about how Facebook handles users' data. It's perhaps just as, or even more dangerous in how they go out of their way of getting ADDITIONAL data without user's consent.
- Banks
- Airline/ airline rewards programs
- Banks / Credit cards/ credit card programs
- When users are logging in from IP addresses that they're not familiar with, they'd ask them to identify people via photos, in the name of security, but it's really to help their photo identification algorithms
- Scaping data (such as contact lists: matching emails/ phone numbers) off smart phones
This is just a list of a few small examples
Why else would I see ads on TV for portal and google home. Both of these platforms are basically ad systems and yet they need to run ads on TV, the dinosaur platform?
At least 22% of Americans are still utter fucking morons.
That 22% is all the bots, anyway. We're good now.
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Obviously the vast majority of you all don't live anywhere near Menlo Park, CA. But if you did, you would observe a company that is buying off the local politicians, hosting "community farmers markets" on their HQ, and employing an army of lawyers and lobbyists all with the aim of continuing to build office space well beyond what the local infrastructure and community can withstand. What's worse than buying off the city council is acting like you care, then doing it.
Dumb fucks.
is that 22% of Americans are employed by Facebook or have a close relative who is.
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The companies that you should be trusting the most are the ones being trusted the least.
Amazon (49%), Google (41%), Microsoft (40%), and Apple (39%).
From that list the first two individually gather and sell more information then the last two combined. I know that people are ignorant and don't read any longer but if they would actually try it some time they may prevent a future that will look bleaker then ever before. Google is helping the Chinese government keep control over its citizens. Amazon is isn't far behind, doing anything for fuck, errr buck. Oh heck, Bezo loves a four-legged buck.
... still use it.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
I hear the same % of people think that Faux News is the country's "most reliable news source".
Coincidence? I think not.
0% of facebook employee trust facebook.
"22% of Americans for some unfathomable reason still trust Facebook's handling of personal info"
I'm surprised that many -- 22% of Americans -- trust Facebook. I thought that would be much, much lower. I'm guessing these same 22% are all some of the 35% who want to "Mak Americuh Grate Agin!" (slogan in crayon font)
The dystopian stuff happens when the data is shared willy nilly, and there isn't any particular person in charge of the data: Facebook providing API's that allow open harvesting, Apps on IOS and Android that allow similar harvesting by random 1 or 2 person companies, and/or fronts for foreign entities. It is far more difficult to find hundreds or thousands of such organizations, whack-a-mole style and get them all to fix their behaviour. so to me, Facebook's business model is a problem. Apple and Google's app store policing is critical, but what Google does with data is pretty much the ideal. We are getting services in exchange for giving data to one large corporation that is amenable to pressure (the *one throat to choke* model of risk mitigation.)
Only 22% of Americans will admit to trusting Facebook, yet 68% of Americans still use it. That says to me that a LOT of these 'untrusting' souls are in fact liars. If you truly distrust a company whose products and services you don't really need, then you simply don't maintain a relationship with them. If you DO continue to do business with them, then your protestations of mistrust are pretty much meaningless. Such people are likely motivated by conformism and/or wanting to be seen as informed citizens; if they REALLY distrusted FB, they'd simply opt out.
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