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World News See other World News Articles Title: Former Facebook Executive Claims ‘Most People Don’t Care About Privacy’ Former Facebook Executive Claims ‘Most People Don’t Care About Privacy’ By Eric Lieberman May 11, 2018 at 11:33am Antonio García-Martínez, a former product manager at Facebook, said that while there is a lot of clamoring over how social media companies manage people’s data, it’s coming from a relatively small portion of the larger public. “Here’s the reality: Most people don’t care about privacy,” García-Martínez said during an interview with Recode founder Kara Swisher. “Media elites care about it, underemployed Eurocrats care about it. And the entire privacy-industrial complex — there’s an entire set of very loud voices who are constantly beating the drum and building media careers around this.” He doesn’t think Facebook will take a big hit in the number of users, mainly because people seem to cherish the ability to connect and communicate more than the security of their online traits and tendencies. “Any app, and I’m using ‘Facebook’ broadly to mean whatever social media thing we have — whatever the face of social media is, people are more than willing to sacrifice this abstract notion of privacy that Brussels bureaucrats care about, in pursuit of this community thing,” he continued, referring to the more aggressive regulatory tactics from the European Union. Facebook is reportedly planning on adapting to the General Data Protection Regulation — a relatively stringent and imminent set of rules, many dealing with privacy — by trying to exclude around 1.5 billion users from other places around the world. The law, which will take effect May 25, has been in the works well before a string of ostensible missteps from Facebook, which have triggered a backlash and subsequent calls for the government to force such companies from better valuing personal data. García-Martínez, who wrote a book about his experiences in the tech hub of Silicon Valley, is downplaying those apparent concerns. “For those who doubt, here’s a pop quiz: When in the past two or three months did Facebook reach the highest point in app rankings in the Android app store?” he posed. “Literally the day after the #deletefacebook hashtag went viral.” Twitter users have been applying the hashtag to posts expressing their frustration with the social media platform. Poster Comment: Privacy is all important with the ever intrusive NSA looking over our shoulders all of the time. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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