Facebook's Privacy Laws Are Going to Have to Change

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Facebook is famously like inherently more likely to produce bad headlines for a better word than then Google. They've demonstrated laxness over time and for a period of time didn't even understand the type of company they were so they acted worse than you would have expected. Zuckerberg was basically saying as such in these interviews this week is well people really want their data locked down but it's also sort of inevitable I mean that's like the the answer is going to end up being don't share data with anyone ever.

Ben and James discuss Facebook’s current crisis, and why almost everyone misunderstands what the company did wrong: the problem isn’t advertising, it was Facebook’s desire to be a platform.

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Links

James Allworth: What the F*** Was Facebook Thinking — Medium
Ben Thompson: The Facebook Brand — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Tim Cook’s Unfair and Unrealistic Privacy Speech — Stratechery
Mark Zuckerberg’s Reckoning: ‘This Is a Major Trust Issue’ — The New York Times
Ben Thompson: Mobile Makes Facebook Just an App; That’s Good News — Stratechery
Nicholas Thompson: Mark Zuckerberg Talks to Wired About Facebook’s Privacy Problem — Wired
Ben Thompson: The Voters Decide — Stratechery