[saddlerustle]

As far as I know, despite the scandals facebook has never been shown to blatantly collect data without disclosing it in its privacy policy. It's unreasonable to assume it will start, in a niche product, over what most people probably find more sensitive than most of the data is collects.

It's "easy" for a competent software engineer, yes, not a random person. But I assume that's most of the people on HN.

[literallycancer]

You seem to live in a magical world where privacy policies matter and laws are enforced against corporations with unlimited legal budget.

[mannykannot]

The author of that post lives in a world where a) Facebook has actually made the specific disclosures being discussed here, and many more; b) making such disclosures has had, at most, only trivial negative consequences for Facebook; and c) not making such disclosures could provide the sort of evidence used in the legal and legislative constraints on Facebook's operations that are sometimes proposed and occasionally attempted.

[jiofih]

The average user does not read privacy policies. Remember Cambridge Analytica?