Who makes these decisions? Surely it's from people higher to the top than the bottom and not at all the kind of people that would implement such a feature.
Actions speak louder than words and it would have been more meaningful to set some actual policy and protections for people bringing such privacy-violating product decisions to task rather then send the corporate equivalent of a "like and share" post.
I've never met an engineer that was anti-privacy or anti-security... Those traits are exclusively donned by product people trying to push a feature out on time or hit a kpi at the expense of bigger picture thinking.
So perhaps programmers working totally on their own can make privacy work for Facebook.
Rogue Google employees did a good job breaking up Google's search monopoly, so there's precedent for this kind of roll-up-your-sleeves success.
Google has 90% market share still. I'd thus still call that monopoly unbroken.
I wish I could put "sarcasm" label in a tooltip or something. It would still annoy people to have to mouse over to reveal the tip (I still win) but my intent would at least be explicit (everyone else wins).
Privacy requires engagement from all levels, and I'm this case Facebook seems to be doing the trigger thing after f*** things up quite a bit in the past.
HN is predominantly ad-tech or ad-tech related people. It's uncomfortable for them.
> This was an internal memo meant for an internal audience to address an internal problem.
Do you actually think this can address "the problem" or is it performance?
And then telling them to do more work.
"Mr. Yin claimed that he watched as his director typed the report of their one-on-one meeting into his computer and pressed the send button. Afterwards, he told his director in a small talk that he was busy with many personal affairs and felt stressed. Unexpectedly, in the email he later received, a company HR emphasized to him that the company offers psychological help and told the contact information to him, which he suspected was the result of his director snitching him out and made him feel betrayed."