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It is happening right now: Mark Zuckerberg is being asked by the Senate about the Facebook personal data issue.

Well, to me this is a historical event, where many stuff of matter is being discussed:
- The privacy of Facebook. When you open your Facebook account, there are several rules (nobody reads them, apparently) where it is specified that all the data you provide will be immediately belonging to Facebook. Even when you delete your account they still store some of your data, but to what end?
- The Facebook mobile app also asks you about having access to your phone data (contacts, ok, but also your personal call history). This is being discussed as I write these lines for, What's the point of doing so?
- The Cambridge Analytica scandal just has thrown some light upon the Facebook's lack of confidentiality. But the discuss having place right now is going much further. How can Facebook team accept the legal conditions of the Alexander Kogan's quiz, even when it was clearly breaking the Facebook "law"?

Mark Zuckerberg is clearly having a bad time in trying to persuade the Senators of the goodwill of his enterprise. But, to me, it goes really far, and I have many many questions:

- Is an enterprise as Facebook responsible for the content people publish on the platform? If I have a private message app, then can I be responsible for what kind of messenger the people sent to each other?
- Is the free of expression more important than the harm it can provoke? For instance, look at how many teenagers have committed suicide due to the cyberbullying they receive from other users. There is some kind of response from the developers?
- If anyone is making rich by convincing people to share their personal data, can it be fraudulent in any sense?

Some previous thoughts:
- People do not read anymore. They just share whatever they want in order to get some recognition from the people surrounding. The "like" system is certainly sick, but the users and abusers of it are just as much sick as the concept itself. The people is not concerned about their own privacy or even their closed people one. So... Is it a company trouble or a social one?
- If I share anything on the internet, for sure it can be used in many ways. It is how the internet works. So, is the problem about Facebook, or this is just the tip of the iceberg and just shows how little society is prepared for this kind of platforms.

I don't use Facebook. I despise all related to the platform, but, in many ways, I believe this is a historical event. One of the biggest American entrepreneurs is on a trial for "selling data".

What do you think? I personally believe it can be a great debate about the use of the internet and the collect of data.

Nevertheless, It seems kind of ironic the US government is so against Facebook now, even when they ask you to show your social media app when you trespass their boards...
And also, all the senators questioning Zuckerbergs' platform use Facebook to their campaigns...

In my analysis facebook is nothing short of a front for Intelligence - and has been for years. I don't for one minute believe that Zuckerberg had a hard time before the Senate panel. It is just for show. Follow the money to see why I deem this to be the case. The mass collection, storage and use of private data for nefarious purposes have been with us for a long time - even outside of facebook. What they value most is the ability to manipulate public opinion. Beyond this purpose, the data of most people are pretty useless to them. This is why most people who have made use of facebook prior to the hearing are still making use of facebook. They have been brainwashed not to care.

It is like with cryptos. I am a strong advocate of decentralized, private tokens and token exchanges while it is something that are not important to others at all. They simply don't care. And yet, the direction in which we travel can have huge impact in terms of the destination we reach at the end of the day.

The problem is that FB pretty much caters, their main users are more of the vapid teenager types that really just care about presenting a happening image. When such a large portion of your user base is like this, the last thing they're going to even spend a second thinking off is anything serious in the news. They never have, so would not even know what using their data entails.

Not that it makes a difference, but it is claimed that facebook has become the social media platform for old people. In any case, while most probably don't care how their data are used, the data is certainly used to for one push public opinion in a certain direction.

Teenager type is the wrong word to cover everyone. The more accurate one are people who don't really have a care in the world outside their daily problems. Well, there are many different types of people.

Exactly my point.