ive been crowing about Facebook being a huge privacy hole for years, but this has convinced nobody I know to stop using it because the “bad consequences” sound no worse than what advertising already was

if this latest round bothers you why weren’t you bothered when people told you in 2010 that doing that “which Pokémon are you” quiz was giving someone all your data and your friends data with naught to control use but the honour system?

IDK it just sucks being disregarded as the unhinged conspiracy theorist and then it coming to light in the media a decade later like its earth shattering new info

our industry desperately needs a code of ethics with teeth and strong unions and a conscience

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