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0 pointsmtbcoder10y ago0 comments

> With Facebook, the intrusion of privacy happens completely out in the open and you can work with that.

I'm not following. Once I hand over my data I have no real control over how they end up using it behind the scenes. Furthermore, even if I never sign up with Facebook or at some point delete my account thinking my data has been flushed, a "shadow profile" still exists that I have no control over. [1]

[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/facebooks-shadow-profile-bu...

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cinquemb10y ago

I'm not following either.

If such interactions happen in the "open", facebook is then encrypting information relating to such "open" interactions, so that people already familiar with things like pgp/gpg (of which, I assume who also know what email headers are) can know that such "open" interactions came from facebook and that such information regarding "open" interactions was not modified in transit?

I guess "completely out in the open" means different things to different people…

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