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There are many many admissions from FB themselves knowing about leaking data to apps, or via unsecured APIs.

Here is a (probably subset) list of past transgressions [1]

I ducked/DDGed that search in 10 seconds.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/04/10/facebooks-mar...




Sure, but not on purpose or because of malintent!

I looked through the bulletpoints and all the ones I read are simple operational mistakes they made which they apologized for.

None of this justifies the current media outcry!


Oops, sorry, didn’t mean to run into you with my Mercedes. It wasn’t on purpose and I swear I want the best for you! I was just a little tipsy...I am so sorry! I promise not to drink quite so much the next time I get on the road.


If you are making Billions off of people your mistakes are judged much more sharply and people expect you make up for the mistakes somehow. You don't have to agree with this but there is nothing that makes Facebook special and I know this as someone who grew up watching the internet from the get go. Sites like myspace, yahoo messenger, nexopia, and several others I can think off all died off. They seemed like world changers at the time and they all died off. It can happen to anyone and when you are making billions off of people you get to make very few mistakes.


Oh they apologised? Well everything is cool then.




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