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by whamill 5198 days ago
They can't win with some people. Either they ignore it and those people say they don't care about privacy, or they rattle the sabre (for their users' benefit, for once) and people say they're posturing or spinning a nothing into something positive for them. I guess it's the PR department's job to do this but I get the impression that for some they're the new big company that you can love to hate.

Personally I think it's better that they said it, whether the reality of these increasingly common stories is actually so common or not.
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newman314 5198 days ago
It's not a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario at all.

There is no downside to Facebook saying no asking for passwords for interviews. It makes them look good and justifies their walled garden approach.

If Facebook truly cared about privacy, they would actually listen to the requests such as the ability to delete ALL your data as well as the ability to toggle privacy settings for all fields instead of the ones Facebook deems acceptable.

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