The social media giant openly admits it doesn’t respect our privacy, so why would anyone trust it with our financial details?
‘By sharing with a hundred friends on a social media platform, which is an affirmative social act to publish, to disclose, to share ostensibly private information with a hundred people, you have… negated any reasonable expectation of privacy.”
So claimed Facebook lawyer Orin Snyder in a Californian court case in which Facebook is being sued for invasion of privacy. There is no case to answer, Facebook insists, because once you give your data to Facebook, you also give up your right to privacy. That is why, said Snyder, “every parent says to their child, ‘Do not post it on Facebook if you don’t want to read about it tomorrow morning in the school newspaper’”.
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