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u/ulvain wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

> all the engineers at Facebook take privacy very seriously when building products. I think the issue isn't with privacy breaches by accident or by piracy, but privacy breaches by design. And yes, get your point about aggregate or anonymized data, but when cross-referenced with

u/michaelnovati replied · May 4, 2022 ★ FEATURED

I totally understand the controversial nature of this and I think it's going to keep being a topic all of us, and all big companies have to deal with. All I can say is that even though Facebook is a business, people do genuinely care about this stuff so much more than I've seen people caring at some other companies that have a ton of information on you, so I hope that they can keep working on this productively.