> Suppose tech companies were no longer legally allowed to use the network effect (i.e. they had to provide open-access to their public data via API). Facebook and Twitter have public APIs.
This Twitter thread by Alex Stamos (former Facebook CSO) is a good rebut to this: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1046783533220421632. Bottom line: you can do incident response quickly or correctly, but not both.
Your employment history isn't private information. It's sold by data brokers to companies for recruiting.
Favebook’s policy for not giving information to family members came out of situations where the decreased was not on good terms with their family. When to give out information and to whom are not obvious or easy…
"These weren’t very hard to find. It was as easy as a simple Google search."
> People didn't realize Facebook was selling their secrets. Facebook doesn't sell data, it sells ads.
The data accessed here was from a smaller unrelated research study. The only thing it has in common with the larger CA leak is that it was done by the same researcher.
If you read higher up in that wiki it lists all of the money the initiative has given away so far. I'm not sure why people think that the LLC doesn't give away money.
Zuckerberg changed his mind on this in an interview in 2014: "I don't know if the balance has swung too far, but I definitely think we're at the point where we don't need to keep on only doing real identity things," he…
Facebook has no serious competition at the moment other than Snapchat. Young people are still using Instagram and Messenger. Ironically, the calls for regulation might actually end up helping Facebook in the end as they…
What would breaking up Facebook look like? Most features of Facebook couldn't operate as standalone businesses without creating their own massive ad networks.
Should investors be able to sue a company anytime its stock goes down?
The writers for most prime-time sitcoms are Democrats. They do it for free.
2017 Was Bad for Bloomberg. 2018 Will Be Worse. All of these anti-Facebook articles should have disclaimers informing readers that they are in competition with Facebook and that Facebook is winning.
Users who were upset with the change need to reckon with the fact that Patreon isn't profitable and that it's likely that it's impossible for them to ever become profitable with their 5% business model (Patreon is based…
You missed the key fact here: Zuckerberg wants to do more for the community but his initiatives are being blocked by the city. I say that there is a disconnect because this is being presented by the author as a failure…
The same people said the same thing about Instagram and WhatsApp.
The press's portrayal of Travis isn't shared by most Uber employees. He's still well liked inside the company.
> Suppose tech companies were no longer legally allowed to use the network effect (i.e. they had to provide open-access to their public data via API). Facebook and Twitter have public APIs.
This Twitter thread by Alex Stamos (former Facebook CSO) is a good rebut to this: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1046783533220421632. Bottom line: you can do incident response quickly or correctly, but not both.
Your employment history isn't private information. It's sold by data brokers to companies for recruiting.
Favebook’s policy for not giving information to family members came out of situations where the decreased was not on good terms with their family. When to give out information and to whom are not obvious or easy…
"These weren’t very hard to find. It was as easy as a simple Google search."
> People didn't realize Facebook was selling their secrets. Facebook doesn't sell data, it sells ads.
The data accessed here was from a smaller unrelated research study. The only thing it has in common with the larger CA leak is that it was done by the same researcher.
If you read higher up in that wiki it lists all of the money the initiative has given away so far. I'm not sure why people think that the LLC doesn't give away money.
Zuckerberg changed his mind on this in an interview in 2014: "I don't know if the balance has swung too far, but I definitely think we're at the point where we don't need to keep on only doing real identity things," he…
Facebook has no serious competition at the moment other than Snapchat. Young people are still using Instagram and Messenger. Ironically, the calls for regulation might actually end up helping Facebook in the end as they…
What would breaking up Facebook look like? Most features of Facebook couldn't operate as standalone businesses without creating their own massive ad networks.
Should investors be able to sue a company anytime its stock goes down?
The writers for most prime-time sitcoms are Democrats. They do it for free.
2017 Was Bad for Bloomberg. 2018 Will Be Worse. All of these anti-Facebook articles should have disclaimers informing readers that they are in competition with Facebook and that Facebook is winning.
Users who were upset with the change need to reckon with the fact that Patreon isn't profitable and that it's likely that it's impossible for them to ever become profitable with their 5% business model (Patreon is based…
You missed the key fact here: Zuckerberg wants to do more for the community but his initiatives are being blocked by the city. I say that there is a disconnect because this is being presented by the author as a failure…
The same people said the same thing about Instagram and WhatsApp.
The press's portrayal of Travis isn't shared by most Uber employees. He's still well liked inside the company.