Say what you like about Mark Zuckerberg, the guy is nothing if not self-aware. He knows that one of the biggest problems Facebook faces, now and in the future, is the widespread perception that it's vacuuming up all sorts of personal information about you
At the same time, he knows that Facebook's revenue stream depends almost entirely on targeted advertising, which in turn depends on — well, vacuuming up all sorts of personal information about you. What we have here is an image problem.
Time was when Zuckerberg simply told us to grow up, that there was no longer a "social norm" around privacy amongst his users. Given the amount of personal information most of us willingly enter into the social network, this was a pretty fair summary (1.3 billion users and counting can't be wrong, right?) Read more...
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