[governance] Facebook customer outreach on privacy policy backfires

[Louis Pouzin (well)]

This FB thread is floating alongside drug addiction, with the usual pro &
con dialectics. Next step is how to get off FB.

Louis
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Roland Perry <
roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:

> In message <CAJwbTiAYBMYyR=**7wV7scK0QrNKReiSgum=LPACunSyb2**
> jf_2Jw at mail.gmail.com <LPACunSyb2jf_2Jw at mail.gmail.com>>, at 20:25:37 on
> Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
> salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@**gmail.com<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com>>
> writes
>
>
>  I am thinking of the German regulators who admonished Facebook for the
>> use of "the like tag"
>>
>
> There's not much wrong with the "Like" tag, because no-one is forcing you
> to attach it, and it's pretty obvious what it does.
>
> Where the unexpected consequences creep in is when, unexpectedly, it's
> grabbed by the entity you "liked", and used as an advert; eg "Roland Likes
> Starbucks" and sent out to people I've never heard of.
> --
> Roland Perry
>
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