| I see a bunch of "bad thing X was said about our product, we developers of said product say that our product does not do aforementioned bad things". So literally like any product saying "We of product X recommend product X". And also the fact that if they didn't put out this document, they might later get sued and the lack of response towards "The Social Dillema" may be used as an argument that they don't care. And as such, they lose a case. But about that data... See, I've always heard Facebook makes the largest part of its money by selling data about its users. Is that not true? Or, even worse, was it wrong of me to assign value to articles and news stories that stated this? If so, why? What about the reverse? Would there be those who consider it foolish to place stock in a statement that says Facebook does not sell user data, or sells it anonymized? It feels to me like a deliberate attempt to move all conversation on the subject into the territory of "you can't really know for sure, so SHUT UP". Get people to stop talking about it, by virtue of casting doubt on everything anyone says. Meanwhile, Facebook keeps doing whatever it's doing. Nothing changes. Facebook could fix this problem by opening up about what it does with the data. But it refuses to do that. Trade secrets, I suppose? Either way, it's Facebook who's handling the data, not us. As such, all responsibility falls on them, not us. |
Categorically untrue. They sell advertising space. The data is used to target the ads, which are often paid for based on performance.
Selling the data would be a terrible idea... if anyone else had it, it would undermine their value proposition.