A criminal enterprise
by Volker Weber
Paraphrasing, Hill’s back and forth with Facebook over these practices went like this:
Hill: Facebook, are you doing this terrible thing?
Facebook: No, we don’t do that.
Hill, months later: Here’s academic research that shows you do this terrible thing.
Facebook: Yes, of course we do that.
At this point I consider Facebook a criminal enterprise. Maybe not legally, but morally. How in the above scenario is Facebook not stealing Ben’s privacy?
Exactly. And that is why I don't do business with them. Not on Facebook, not on Instagram, not in WhatsApp. You cannot know this and continue because it is oh so convenient.
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The last episode of John Oliver „Last Week Tonight“ is also targeting Facebook.
=> https://youtu.be/OjPYmEZxACM
Funny, but shocking too.
Try that arguing in a Kindergarten or Elementary School parents WhatsApp Group.
We do know. But most don't either know, nor care. I could move most of my conversations to Signal and I keep trying. But then it stops.
Andy, it is going to take a while until it sinks in.
Hubert, if they can receive a WhatsApp message, they can receive an SMS.
Volker, me and the kids would be out of the loop, not them. I keep pushing, but reality is not that easy, unfortunately.
You will have to convince the leader, if you are not it.
You are right Volker. When I read this though, I wonder when the last time was, you had a discussion with kindergarden parents... :)
Theory meets reality. We don’t have WhatsApp for various reasons, one of them being the above mentioned.
Are they any worse than IT people or managers who want to have cheap, fast and good?
Nailed it with the cheap fast good, Volker!
@Volker: Yes, they are worse in some ways:
- you have 20 or so of them crowded together, so group dynamics are more of an issue (on average; business meetings with 20 people don't get anything done anyway)
- broader spectrum of emotional affectedness
- on average, logic is even less a factor, but feelings are ("Yes, but my feeling is that ")
However, you are right that the difference is not sooo big.
My simple solution: No, I don't have Wazzap. Be prepared that people will not contact you as you don't use the "right" messenger. Best explanation: Email is sooo complicated...
You need titanium steel balls to not install for whatever reason.
Opposing vowe: It will not sink in with the masses. They neither understand nor care. Never.
The same with security and updates. Unless a direct friend gets stolen a 4 digit amount of € through a security hole, no soul cares. They would not even understand, that an up to date SW would have prevented the theft - they consider themselves as "unlucky", but not "guilty".
Well, on the emotional level you can trigger these people with Glyphosat, GM crops, or PET bottles. There should be a way to package the message of a criminal organization.
