Facebook Is an 'Innovator in Privacy,' Says Guy Who Runs Facebook
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is fond of suggesting that all the criticism of his globe-spanning social media empire comes from either the misinformed or the malicious.
He argued that Facebook, which has a business model founded on vacuuming up as much data about its users as possible, is really just making strides in providing the public secure communications technologies:
This is beyond laughable: One of Facebooks biggest controversies in the last year, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, happened precisely because the social media giant let app developers harvest vast amounts of data on millions of users without their knowledge or consent.
Reminder that Facebook builds secret databases of users contact information, including stuff users never willingly handed over.
Facebook is successful because it sells a massive amount of online ads, a massively lucrative and growing marketFacebooks share of the U.S.
Its also been accused of monopolistic behavior and stealing features from upstart competitors to fuel its own growth.
In any case, its clear that Facebook and its executives are spooked by plummeting user trust surveysand theyre deploying all their best rhetorical Mbius loops and repetitive buzzwords to shove the genie back in the bottle.
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