[Nextgrid]

If it’s challenging to make a feature treat users with respect then maybe you shouldn’t have built the feature in the first place?

It’s like designing a dangerous rollercoaster with no concern for safety, and then when people start dying complaining about how hard it was to make it safe.

Nasty, unethical, criminal and morally bankrupt company. There are no other words to describe it.

[lokedhs]

Did you read the article? If you read between the lines is really tells you what they think of user's privacy. Apparently their systems was never designed to allow deletion of data, and they had to do investigations just to figure out what the different teams were doing with it. There is no way they found everything.

If I was investing a a GDPR complaint, this article contains a lot of information that would be useful when asking questions to FB.

[Nextgrid]

I think you are either completely unaware of the whole situation with Facebook and their business model or you have ulterior motives.

When I read between the lines I see just a nasty attempt at PR to keep naive users & clueless regulators happy by offering the illusion of choice and control over your data.

The reality is that they designed malicious infrastructure akin to a spyware’s command and control center (but at scale, while the other spyware usually gets by with brittle PHP scripts dropped on a hacked shared host) and are now offering you tools to (supposedly) opt-out from a threat they created in the first place.

[lokedhs]

I don't know why you suggest I'm unaware. I'm completely in agreement with you.

You might have thought I was making excuses for them. On the contrary, they clearly never designed a system to delete data because the mere idea of actually deleting information associated with a user is so alien to them that they never even thought of it.

[Nextgrid]

Apologies - I guess I was in the wrong state of mind when I read it yesterday as now it appears completely clear what you meant.

[lokedhs]

Actually, when I read my original message, I can see how it can be mistaken for making the opposite statement.

I usually try to be as clear as possible, but when it comes to that company I just don't see how anyone could be apologetic for them, so I never read my own post from that perspective.