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>>fahimu+(OP)
Why so many naysayers? I can't see this having any detrimental effects, regardless of how effective it is in practice.

>>corndo+Y1
People are biased about Facebook for various reasons, including $privacy-issue-of-the-day; no matter what they do they get to be the villan.

That is, unless we're talking about their newest PHP optimizer or ad toolkit.

>>TeMPOr+w2
> People are biased about Facebook for various reasons, including $privacy-issue-of-the-day"

While FB as a company certainly is not altruistic, they employ quite a few privacy-minded engineers. Data leaks to the outside of their walled garden are very likely treated as company-wide problems, but as the LGBT doxes showed, there are wide implications even within their walls. [0]

As they try to capture ever larger parts of the online population, they will* keep colliding with non-Western, non-SV norms. The privacy issues may be nothing but a canary in the goldmine, because they are mostly an expression of non-SV values. For example, I have my doubts about how long images of traditional Hindu artwork would be allowed to stay up...

0: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/27/facebook-authentic-...