Facebook isn’t sorry about violating your privacy. And at this point, it knows we probably don’t care enough to stop using the network.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/facebook-isnt-sorry-it-just-wants-your-data?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
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Case in point: Facebook’s new Portal home surveillance device comes •days after news it was gathering 2-factor authentication numbers •a week after news of a data breach affecting 50 million •months after Zuckerberg apologized to Congress over Cambridge Analytica (
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Tone-deaf business decisions like Portal are nothing new for Facebook. Weeks after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, Facebook announced it would use our data for a dating app. That’s just one of several examples.
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Why is Facebook like this? The company has an unquenchable thirst for personal information — obviously for the profit and power it brings and because the company’s foundational identity is based on this data gathering, world-connecting prism.pic.twitter.com/VOun9Ynemd
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Despite all of the bad press and fallout — which includes everything from disrupting the media business to election interference to ethnic cleansing in places like Myanmar— the company is vast, powerful and profitable.
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Most every scandal Facebook has endured eventually gets overshadowed by positive earnings and users growth reports, followed by an increase in stock price.
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Facebook is intimidatingly large and deeply woven into our cultural fabric, largely because we have allowed it to become so. As for the ongoing privacy violations at massive scale: Products like Portal show Facebook doesn't really care. And maybe we don't either.
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