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of course not - they are called average users for a reason. But when shit hits the fan and someone's privacy was violated and made the media, then FB will have a nightmare of a PR incident, and if there is money involved, probably law suits etc. Its just human nature to ignore what you can - and this privacy problem is a long term problem that tends to get ignored in the short term.


You're assuming that mistakes made in the past are likely to be repeated. It is as likely to assume that Facebook has learned from their mistakes.


You are somehow assuming that they only had a reason to learn from their last mistake. The fact that there have been numerous mistakes suggests that they don't get it and won't learn from it.


Also, Facebook is obligated to provide the results of a privacy audit to the FTC for the next 20 years.




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