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Comment by BoiledCabbage | Hacker News Reader

It is absolutely obscene how much of a breach of trust and decency these are.

Facebook still hasn't fully come clean because they knew they were doing unsavory activities and just wanted to not get caught and keep getting away with it.

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If worse comes to worst, they can become a credit rating agency.

There should be a CFAA for personal information.

Slightly related: The Chinese government is already working on a social credit rating system using mass surveillance. I shudder to even imagine living in such a world.

They may merely be one step ahead.

I’m sure Zuck will offer a heartfelt apology.

10 DO heartfelt_apology GOTO 10

Zuckerberg isn't a robot - he's entitled, overconfident, and underappreciative of the depth or complexity of the world beyond his experience or the impact of his actions upon it. Further, he shows no hesitation in imposing his will on others despite those shortcomings, and is entrenched in his perspective and tactics rather than open to learning. More briefly - he's a jerk.

Hopefully from Federal prison with a life sentence. Literally billions of times he and his execs, managers, and engineers have violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Federal Wiretap Act, and more.

Facebook could be considered as a strategic military asset, as it is capable of quite accurately mapping people around the world. Relationships between people in Iran, same place same time, same IP, ghost profiles...

If you were the CIA, wouldn’t you work on protecting/ preventing such people from having a trial?

Of course it is. I agree with your comment. I also think FB is the work of secret services, from its inception to the present day. I've seen Zuck talk, and he doesn't strike me as a specially smart guy. But he's young and always smiling, shows enthusiasm and that's what people need. It's a nice cover.

If you don’t look at Facebook’s origin story this could almost be believable.

The Onion is ahead[1] of y'all

1. https://www.theonion.com/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-...

In [2011]

How does that saying go?

"If you owe the bank a million dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, you own the bank."

They'll go right in the same comfy cell as the Equifax execs. Oh wait...

> Hopefully from Federal prison with a life sentence. Literally billions of times he and his execs, managers, and engineers have violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Federal Wiretap Act, and more.

Preferably multiple life sentences to ensure he can never get out or create another monstrosity like FB. Also get laws created/strengthened against such repeat abusers of people.

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