<story><title>Mark Zuckerberg Refuses to Admit How Facebook Works</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2018-04-12/mark-zuckerberg-refuses-to-admit-how-facebook-works</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mfoy_</author><text>I think the biggest thing is the HUGE disconnect with what people &lt;i&gt;think&lt;/i&gt; Facebook is doing, and what Facebook is &lt;i&gt;actually&lt;/i&gt; doing.&lt;p&gt;I think the whole point of this is to raise awareness about of the scope of Facebook&amp;#x27;s data collection-- It&amp;#x27;s unfathomably enormous.&lt;p&gt;If more average people had a better understanding of what Facebook was tracking, they&amp;#x27;d be outraged. Zuckerberg&amp;#x27;s goal in this was to keep the wool pulled over their eyes. That&amp;#x27;s why he kept conflating post-visibility settings with privacy &amp;#x2F; tracking settings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inlined</author><text>And what&amp;#x27;s worse is that privacy controls explicitly don&amp;#x27;t control ad targeting. Years ago I had a long term relationship end. We hid our relationship status and only ended the status a year later. Immediately after changing a status marked &amp;quot;only me&amp;quot; in privacy settings I got bombarded with dating ads.
I complained that this was a huge privacy violation and they said &amp;quot;we didn&amp;#x27;t share your relationship status with them. We matched you to them because of the relationship status&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Mark Zuckerberg Refuses to Admit How Facebook Works</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2018-04-12/mark-zuckerberg-refuses-to-admit-how-facebook-works</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mfoy_</author><text>I think the biggest thing is the HUGE disconnect with what people &lt;i&gt;think&lt;/i&gt; Facebook is doing, and what Facebook is &lt;i&gt;actually&lt;/i&gt; doing.&lt;p&gt;I think the whole point of this is to raise awareness about of the scope of Facebook&amp;#x27;s data collection-- It&amp;#x27;s unfathomably enormous.&lt;p&gt;If more average people had a better understanding of what Facebook was tracking, they&amp;#x27;d be outraged. Zuckerberg&amp;#x27;s goal in this was to keep the wool pulled over their eyes. That&amp;#x27;s why he kept conflating post-visibility settings with privacy &amp;#x2F; tracking settings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fwdpropaganda</author><text>&amp;gt; That&amp;#x27;s why he kept conflating post-visibility settings with privacy &amp;#x2F; tracking settings.&lt;p&gt;Interesting. That&amp;#x27;s pretty clever, which gives me confidence that&amp;#x27;s exactly what he was doing.</text></comment>