Knowing what everyone including people you barely know are doing updated every second on a news feed, the very definition of private...

Technically she is correct because she didn't apply a context. She could have meant privacy violations.

I'm a sexist. It threw me off when the headline read "she" instead of "he." Oh well...

"the first innovator in privacy piracy"

I wonder how much she gets paid.
Depressing.

vodka: Technically she is correct because she didn't apply a context. She could have meant privacy violations.

THIS, THAT, or the other thing! I can't tell any more. I mean, I agree.

I read that as "first invader of privacy".

Well, now we know what G.W. Bush's speechwriters are doing since he left office.

the GOP
Baghdad Bob
SCO
Facebook
most subbys on fark

I guess the invention of locks, doors, walls, weapons, mean nothing?

vodka: Technically she is correct because she didn't apply a context. She could have meant privacy violations.

Yup.

Well, she's a COO. She doesn't know anything.

Seriously. COOs are the guys you promote because they're good at managing people, and because you want to keep them and their hare-brained ideas FAR AWAY from anything that controls the direction of your business.

Mark Z. - the guy who started FB by lifting photos of female students from campus servers to start a "Hot? Or Not?" site - is "leader" in privacy.

Sure. Why not.

A website run by the CIA that gives information on every country in the world = The World Factbook
A website run by the CIA that gives information on every person = Facebook

fetch me my tinfoil!

tseven7: I read that as "first invader of privacy".

This^

Maybe the reporter heard her wrong.

So, you can say that a burglar found the "happy medium" between your posessions and the stuff down at the pawn shop?

I just logged in to my Facebook account to see what my friends are doing so I'm getting a "like" out of this.

in europe they're pushing for facebook reform - this article is bullshiat misdirection.

If i had several billion dollars and a bad reputation i'd probably throw a few million around for better PR, too.

/lotta facebook related stories here
//i could ensure your good name is not sullied
///for the mere price of 100k a post

I read that as "the first innovator in piracy." Dude, what crappy game was that?

Well, my company has had a multimillion dollar division dedicated to ensuring that our products exceed the privacy expectations and laws of all countries we do business in.

It's been that way for at least a decade, and it doesn't always work. Some things slip through the cracks; mistakes in development or releases happen. But they try, and they've sure as hell done a better job than Facebook.

Maybe they mean "innovated" in that they screwed up so bad, that people actually paid a bit more attention to privacy, and therefor they innovated in the "attracting attention to privacy" departments.

Headso: A website run by the CIA that gives information on every country in the world = The World Factbook

The CIA factbook was/is an incredibly helpful piece of publicly accessible information. Something that you would expect to see out of an educational institute rather than an agency associated with spies and clandestine plots in foreign lands.

I mean, and I"ll try to say this with as little snark as possible, when you get the world to voluntarily give up 90% of their own privacy, you've removed an impressive amount of privacy violations from the pool.

This is like a person making themselves libel-proof by becoming a walking talking scandalous freak show.

KidneyStone: LavenderWolf: I guess the invention of locks, doors, walls, weapons, mean nothing?

Security and privacy are two different things

There is some overlap between the two. I'll grant you that weapons are not part of that overlap but doors and walls certainly qualify. Locks are a bit iffy, though.

numbone: "the first innovator in privacy piracy"

Quite accurate, given how they basically made legitimate a bunch of clones of existing games via zynga and has basically endorsed zynga wholeheartedly.

or should we mention that they basically sold off to microsoft and then started with a decidedly anti-google slant?

omcatadam:

Headso: A website run by the CIA that gives information on every country in the world = The World Factbook

The CIA factbook was/is an incredibly helpful piece of publicly accessible information. Something that you would expect to see out of an educational institute rather than an agency associated with spies and clandestine plots in foreign lands.

Say what you will about the CIA, those are some hardcore informational nerds.

They're also pretty good for Cuban cigars, take that as you will.

Well, being an "innovator" means doing something no one else would have thought of doing.

As it relates to Privacy, I'd say this statement is technically quite accurate.

Here's the part that amazes me, being one of those old guys who has been around since college internet addresses and WWIV and Fidonet...

You people sign up for this. You post pictures of yourself doing kegstands and bonghits. You take awkward pictures in the bathroom mirror and post them willingly.

And then complain when this goes public.

Crummpin criminy. and NOW you're complainig about what goes pubic?

""Mark [Zuckerberg] is really a product visionary," she said during a presentation at Business Insider's Ignition conference in New York City. "The thing he's actually been a leader in is usurping privacy."

KidneyStone: LavenderWolf: I guess the invention of locks, doors, walls, weapons, mean nothing?

Security and privacy are two different things

No they aren't. Not really.

That's like saying Hitler was a visionary in the development of race relations.

YES it's true, but what he's trying to do with it is AWFUL.

Yahoo (new window) indicates otherwise, you infringing Facebook, you.

Yeah, what she probably meant to say was "We're first in privacy violations!"

Sure, just remember, Facebook doesn't LIKE that you separate your friends into groups, and they want to HELP people get to know you... so they'll just err on the side of oversharing, until society changes, such that it's no longer a big deal that your church group got invited to your swinger party. Won't that be a brave new world?