I guess I’ve been in a wastey-my-own-timey mood this morning, because I have had time to find this recent reply by Facebook’s Chamath Palihapitiya to the guy who discovered that Facebook is spying on its loyal users, having its corporate partners send gobs of your personal information, whether you like it or not, with no clear way for you to stop it, in ways that it has pointedly avoided telling you about.
Palihapitiya says that Facebook only collects the information, but it doesn’t keep it (well, ah nevah!), and it would never use it (not even for making…. money?). Whatever. This is almost a mantra of corporate sellouts. We’ve all heard it so many times before that our lips almost automatically form the inevitable apology and admission that yes, they’ve sold all our information to people who do not uphold their lofty ideals. And all for a few billion measly dollars. Information is money, and information has legs.
(found via digg)
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