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by f2n 3006 days ago
No, Americans will continue to give zero fucks. A few more people will be outraged, but business as usual will continue. Maybe Facebook will claim they "fixed" the problem that created this "breach" (as it's being called), but nothing will change
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>"No, Americans will continue to give zero fucks."

You realize theres 2 billion people on FB but only 330 million people in the US right? That's many more people than just Americans giving "zero fucks."

Am I crazy for not buying that 2 billion number? Is it really possible that over 25% of the world's population uses Facebook?
No, not crazy. I have/had a hard time believing it but according to FB they do:

https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...

Not if you believe that there is a 1-to-1 relationship between Facebook accounts and real, living humans.

I find it more likely that Facebook is completely unwilling to admit that many of its accounts are not genuine representations of a real, living person.

I'm curious about which people care and actually do something about it. I guess it would be some countries in Europe?
Unfortunately I agree. This is just PRISM all over again. Unfortunate that my fellow citizens don't care about this issue at all.
PRISM was not the problem, it was a web portal for serving NSLs. The other stuff that Snowden leaked was.
Thank you for correcting me on this -- I had this completely wrong before!
A good time for rogues to buy some FB stocks