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by freehunter 5318 days ago
I kind of wish the similar Google Buzz incident had gotten more press than it did. A boy who wasn't even in a balloon was on the news for days, but the case of a woman who was being harassed on Buzz by her abusive ex was lost in the public mind after a few minutes. Both the Buzz and Facebook cases were decided by the FTC very recently (the Buzz case was settled in October of this year). Perhaps we've reached a turning point in online privacy?

But then, looking at things like Protect-IP and SOPA, perhaps the regulatory answer is to just do away with privacy altogether.

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I wonder.. Could that have been their plan from the beginning?