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Mark Zuckerberg Just Spent More Than $30 Million Buying 4 Neighboring Houses For Privacy (2013)

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-buys-4-homes-...

He also notably tapes over his webcam and microphone - you'd infer he thinks he could be surveiled that way. I wonder why.

To be fair he is much more likely to be under surveillance than any of us.

If he has something to hide, he really shouldn't be on the internet, because the age of privacy is over.

This is also the man who built a mile-long six-foot wall around his Hawaii estate. This is his idea of 'planting roots and joining the community.' [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/23/mark-zuck...

To be fair he's not prohibiting you from building your own walls around your house. We're talking about FB. The problem there is, I'd imagine his account is specialized in a way that he has access to all the knobs so he can turn it all the way to zero. In that way he suffers the same problem as all people in power -- they don't see the problems faced by the plebs they talk down to.

I can't afford a house let alone a wall

I find this part interesting:

> Zuckerberg reportedly took action after he learned that a developer wanted to purchase one of his neighbor's homes and use the fact that Zuckerberg lived close by as a marketing tactic. He started purchasing the homes last December. Zuckerberg will lease the four homes he just bought back to its current residents.

I honestly believe I would do the same. That developer sounds like a jerk.

Edit: Assuming I had the millions to do it, that is.

In other words, he was uncomfortable about someone using his personal information for advertising purposes.

Oh, I completely get the point, I'm just saying I'd do it, too. My family, my house, heck yeah.

Sure, but I think the point is that it is hypocritical to declare that privacy is over -- for other people, like your users -- and guard your own privacy jealously.

"Do as I say, not as I do."

In the words of John Belushi, "you effed up - you trusted us"

http://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-use...

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