Poll: Facebook is the least trusted custodian of private information, majority of Americans do not trust it

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/03/26/bottom-of-the-pack.html

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Facebook fared worse than competitors like Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

Facebook has competitors? In what sense?

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The cognitive dissonance with Facebook users is vast and unsettling. Right comrade?

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FTC says it is investigating Facebook privacy practices

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It’s about time. If the FTC had any real teeth this would have never been allowed to happen with Facebook or any other data mining corporation.

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I’d certainly delete my Facebook account, if I had one.

Now, guess what percentage of them would grant this exact quiz broad access to their facebook account in order to take it?

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Oh, come on. Facebook gave away everyone’s info knowingly, in exchange for money. Compare that to Equifax, whose whole raison d etre is to sell your data, and wound up letting it fly out the window for years.

Oh, and there’s the cherry on top: no prosecution.

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Slurping data.

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