Comment by jmathai

9 hours ago

> Your personal data is safe and secure

That's from the article. I can't think of anyone I'd trust less with my data than Meta. Well, thieves, I guess.

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nullbio  6 hours ago

Remember that time they were spying on all of their "free" VPN traffic through some elaborate scheme? Onavo, for anyone interested. This was only like 2 years ago.

  • grumbelbart2  5 hours ago

    Remember when their Android app would open a local TCP port, and they would have websites connect to localhost:PORT so they could deanonymize you? That was only like 1 year ago.

hokumguru  8 hours ago

I trust Meta far more than, say, Anthropic. For one, the judgments against them from the government just mean that they have tons of oversight and auditing happening now. The other providers are just the wild west with privacy.

  • jmathai  7 hours ago

    Really? There's so much information about how Meta targeted children with addictive design patterns. They paid the fine, and profited in the meantime. Do you really think they have any reason not to do the same in the future?

  • nullbio  6 hours ago

    True, actually. Anthropic is a much bigger danger than anything else right now. Still though, Meta earns a solid 10% of trust from me.

xfz  6 hours ago

Also:

"...and your conversations are not shared with Meta's ad systems".

I think they missed off "for now".

gorgoiler  7 hours ago

Do you mean in terms of competence at resisting breaches? I trust Meta’s security team a lot more than anyone else’s in that respect.

They are big enough and pay well to have a competent team. Compared with momandpop.com (willing but too small) or equifax (big but unwilling) and given the kind of data they are guarding, they’re probably the best in the business.

  • jmathai  7 hours ago

    I trust Meta will keep those they don't want to access the data out. It's Meta that I don't trust.