The Facebook/NSA privacy discussion, in large part, is pretty lazy. The issue is a lot more complex than people give it credit for. The discussion is largely superficial claims of privacy infringement where no procedural claim to privacy can actually be made. Privacy rights advocates seem to discuss privacy as if privacy is a constant. When in application, privacy protections are really very limited. Privacy rights explicitly protect you from the state. With state-market legal convergence, privacy rights become twice removed from any procedural claim. There is this disconnect between: what privacy rights are designed to protect and what constituents believe they should protect; which is compounded with popularized conceptions of privacy. Facebook has no legal responsibility to protect your privacy, it at most has a fiduciary responsibility to users, only as an extension of user-base being linked to market share; and Facebook has a responsibility to shareholders. End rant.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 07:11:31 +0000