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Facebook and Your “Privacy”
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Attention Facebook Customers:
This may come as a shock to some of you–Facebook is a commercial business.
Facebook is not a nation state. It does not have a constitution or a supreme court that guarantees you a “right to privacy.”
In exchange for allowing us to dance around the Bonfire of the Banalities, Facebook uses data that we voluntarily give to Facebook to make money for Facebook.
That is known as a “business exchange.”
Netizens need to understand that nothing on the World-Wide Web is free. Everything on the Web entails a value exchange (though not necessarily a monetary exchange, thus Facebook apparently still does not earn a profit).
Netizens, it’s time to move from petulant cyber adolescence in digital adulthood.
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June 18th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Nice post Thomas. Just thought I’d add that when I was teaching security and privacy courses in the tech sector, the same holds true for the US and most other countries. The US Constitution, Bill of Rights, even the Magna Carta don’t really grant a right to privacy. We’ve inferred it out of our wishes for such IMHO, but it simply isn’t there in my view.
June 18th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
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June 18th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Thanks, Ken. As early as the 1920s, the US Supreme Court discerned a right to privacy within the constitutional concept of liberty. It has been applied more recently in key decisions regarding choices that one makes about one’s own body: Griswold v Connecticut (1965), which struck down birth control restrictions; Roe v Wade (1973), which struck down abortion prohibitions; and Lawrence v Texas (2003), which struck down sodomy prohibitions (among other cases).
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