![]() ![]() The biggest obstacle to believing Zuckerberg’s words? For many, it’s Facebook’s history. Digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation said it would believe in a truly private Facebook when it sees it, and Austrian online privacy rights activist ( and thorn in Facebook’s side) Max Schrems laughed at what he saw as hypocrisy: merging users’ metadata across WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram, and telling users it was for their own, private good. ![]() Veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher jabbed Facebook for a “shoplift” of a competitor’s better idea. One early Facebook investor called the move a PR stunt. The outside response to Zuckerberg’s announcement was swift and critical. Given Zuckerberg’s past performance, we doubt that he will actually deliver, and we blame no user who feels the same way. Unfortunately, there is a chasm between Zuckerberg’s privacy proposal and Facebook’s privacy success. And Zuckerberg’s proposals are absolutely a step in the right direction. ![]() Respecting user privacy makes for a better Internet, period. If carried out, these promises could bring user privacy front and center.īut Zuckerberg’s promises have exhausted users, privacy advocates, technologists, and industry experts, including those of us at Malwarebytes. Zuckerberg promised end-to-end encryption across the company’s messaging platforms, interoperability, disappearing messages, posts, and photos for users, and a commitment to store less user data, while also refusing to put that data in countries with poor human rights records. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg proposed a radical pivot for his company this month: it would start caring-really-about privacy, building out a new version of the platform that turns Facebook less into a public, open “town square” and more into a private, intimate “living room.” ![]()
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