Margaret Sullivan’s headline tells you the first half of what you need to know:<\/p>\n
Mark Zuckerberg claims that, at Facebook, \u2018the future is private.\u2019 Don\u2019t believe him.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
She fills in the blank:<\/p>\n
Last week, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg used the company\u2019s annual Silicon Valley confab to announce that \u201cthe future is private.\u201d<\/p>\n
In one of the most awkward moments I\u2019ve ever seen captured on video, he smiled broadly as he tried to joke about the supposed change of direction.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know that we don\u2019t exactly have the strongest reputation on privacy right now, to put it lightly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
No, Zuck, you don\u2019t. Facebook is facing more than a dozen international investigations into its history of privacy violations, Wired magazine has reported \u2014 \u201cfrom its years of willy-nilly data sharing to several recent data breaches.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But she doesn’t complete the thought. She should have suggested that someone ask Zuckerberg this simple question:<\/p>\n
Mark, how will you make money off ‘the future is private?’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Because that’s all Facebook<\/strong><\/em> is about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Margaret Sullivan’s headline tells you the first half of what you need to know: Mark Zuckerberg claims that, at Facebook, \u2018the future is private.\u2019 Don\u2019t believe him. She fills in the blank: Last week, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg used the company\u2019s annual Silicon Valley confab to announce that \u201cthe future \u2026 Continue reading