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Beyond Facebook bashing: What are reasonable data norms? (techcrunch.com)
1 points by sameernoorani 2980 days ago
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Article is full of BS. It's the same "mass surveillance is just like targeted surveillance* trope all over again.
I agree, I would even say that it is a paid article by Facebook to calm down the situation. The point is not that CA got access to our data, CA is just a use case here: point is that Facebook has all those data and can pull the CA stunt at any moment it wants. And I don't see any reason Facebook is more trustworthy than CA, they are both companies dedicated to earning money. And where money talks...