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Facebook is about to install cameras in people's living rooms, and it's gonna keep slurping yore data too
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Wait, did he say that his ads and data collection aren't fair to the users of his systems???
Facebook is not going to give people the option to pay it to stop gathering and selling their private information because it wouldn't be fair to those that can't afford it.
That's the world according to its CEO Mark Zuckerberg who appeared unaware of one of the internet's oldest business models in conversation with Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain.
"Are we going to let people pay to have different controls on data use than other people? And my answer to that is a hard no," the Zuck chucked, adding: "If I could buy my way out of ads and data collection it wouldn't be fair to those who can't."
Zuckerberg even gave an example of what would be going too far: "If you want to talk in metaphors, messaging is like people's living room, and we definitely don't want a society where there’s a camera in everyone's living room." To which, of course, Zittrain pointed out that Facebook is literally selling a new device, Portal, that is an internet-connected camera for people's living rooms. Zuck sort-of recovered by noting that his device uses encryption.
[link to www.theregister.co.uk (secure)]
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