Facebook cannot be trusted
The data of millions of Facebook users have been exposed on the internet. The social network says the information was already public and wants to convince you that the responsibility is yours. But it is not.
If there were still any doubts, the weekend’s events made everything very clear to anyone who had not been paying attention: Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg have not the slightest regard for their users’ private lives.
It was 9:22am on Saturday, 3 April, when a user of a hacking forum pressed the “publish” button. From that moment on, more than 77 GB of private information on hundreds of millions of people became accessible to anyone, for a payment of eight euros.
AI translation from the Portuguese. First published in ECO on 8 April 2021.