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> No one read that ...

I did, and I said "hell no", and I was outraged when similar firms (Pebble?) tried similar stunts. I'm not excusing Facebook for their invasions but I'm also not excusing the people who explicitly opted in to such violations and then acted shocked when the data they offered was used.

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You are not the norm ... the very fact that you are on this website puts you in a very small cabal of users. I can guarantee you that "normal" people do not read these things, and it is disingenuous to expect that they ever will.

Yes, and look at who you are. You are a (presumably) developer, tech literate at a minimum but more likely with a strong command of how technology works and how companies like Facebook operate. You're not my dad, you're not a child, you're not someone who uses the internet to talk to their family and that's about it. You're such a small percent of the group affected by Facebook's actions that thinking everyone operates like you is disingenuous.

Fair, I'm that guy that rants at you at parties about how you should care more about privacy, then makes self-deprecating remarks about tinfoil. >.>

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