{"id":1413,"date":"2012-05-18T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T17:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2012-05-18T19:09:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T17:09:38","slug":"facebooks-privacy-erosion-strategy-visualized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/facebooks-privacy-erosion-strategy-visualized\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s Privacy Erosion Strategy Visualized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the IPO of Facebook and many of us are asking ourselves what it is, the prospective shareholders are investing in &#8230; The answer is quite simple: &#8220;You\u2019re not the customer, you\u2019re the product&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although I am not a friend of circular visualizations, if the whole thing we look at has no repeating nature, <a href=\"http:\/\/mattmckeon.com\">Matt MacKeon<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0visualization of the default privacy settings within Facebook over time\u00a0shows nicely what is going (wr)on(g):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattmckeon.com\/facebook-privacy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Evolution of the default privacy settings within Facebook\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theusRus.de\/Blog-files\/FacebookPrivacy.png\" alt=\"Evolution of the default privacy settings within Facebook\" width=\"580\" height=\"963\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click on the image for the interactive version)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Easy to see how the privacy is gradually taken away from the &#8220;default&#8221; customer. Even those who go to the privacy settings and change the default to more private settings will once in a while be surprised that their settings are back to default, as restructured privacy categories are always set to default even for existing customers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Let&#8217;s close with a nice example of how the customer &lt;-&gt; product reversal usually ends up:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/geekisawesome.com\/824\/facebook-and-you\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Life as a Facebook Customer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theusRus.de\/Blog-files\/Pigs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the IPO of Facebook and many of us are asking ourselves what it is, the prospective shareholders are investing in &#8230; The answer is quite simple: &#8220;You\u2019re not the customer, you\u2019re the product&#8221; Although I am not a friend of circular visualizations, if the whole thing we look at has no repeating nature, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}