Facebook Purportedly Admits That Privacy On Social Media Doesn’t Exist
Image via AngieYeoh / Shutterstock.com Addressing a lawsuit that arose from the notorious Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook purportedly justified that there was no violation of users’ privacy rights as there was no expectation of privacy on social media in the first place.
“There is no invasion of privacy at all, because there is no privacy,” Facebook counsel Orin Synder reportedly announced on Wednesday during a pretrial hearing to dismiss a user privacy suit that sparked from the Cambridge Analytica debacle, according to Law 360.
Facebook did not deny that third parties accessed users’ data, but apparently argued that there was simply no “reason expectation of privacy” on Facebook or other social media platforms. This seems contradictory to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s claim in 2018 that “privacy is extremely important.”
The company has been embroiled in several situations since its founding in 2004, the most infamous being the Cambridge Analytica scandal where personal information from as many as 87 million Facebook users was accessed without express consent.
Facebook could face a fine of up to US$5 billion from the Federal Trade Commission for its failure to protect user’s personal information.
[via CNET, cover image via AngieYeoh / Shutterstock.com]
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