[governance] Facebook customer outreach on privacy policy backfires

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Roland Perry <
roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:

> In message <0e1f01cdd806$430c85f0$**c92591d0$@gmail.com>, at 02:15:32 on
> Wed, 12 Dec 2012, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> writes
>
>  Facebook held a governance vote that closed yesterday and received more
>> than
>> 650,000 votes from its site users. In that vote 88 per cent voted for
>> "Existing Documents: The current SRR and Data Use Policy" while a mere 12
>> per cent voted for "Proposed Documents: The proposed SRR and Data Use
>> Policy."
>>
>> If you have no idea what that really means, you can be excused. Facebook's
>> use of legal jargon is only one of the layers of confusion the social
>> network has created around this issue
>>
>
> It's not just the changes which are somewhat opaque, even the way the
> current privacy, security and audience settings work (under the current
> policy) is too complicated for the average user.
>
> That's why I'm involved in a project called www.safer-settings.com, which
> offers to secure the Facebook settings of vulnerable users who are being
> harassed or stalked using Facebook.
>
> Telling people to close their account is not-an-option, as that denies
> them access to their support networks, in the same way that many users
> regard it as not-an-option to say "no" to the Facebook Policies and deny
> themselves membership.
> --
> Roland Perry
>
> This is why there is need for regulators because even with the freedom to
> "self-regulate", you will always have those who abuse their "powers". How
> different is this "abuse" I wonder from an "abuse of public office"? Even
> if facebook is not traditionally "government" but the fact that it has
> control and the power to wield its influence arbitrarily which reminds me
> of what Marilia had raised this year on the list.
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