Perspective: Mark Zuckerberg claims that, at Facebook, 'the future is private.' Don’t believe him.
By Margaret Sullivan Margaret Sullivan Media columnist Email Bio Follow Media columnist May 5 at 4:00 PM Last week, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg used the company’s annual Silicon Valley confab to announce that “the future is private.”
No, Zuck, you don’t. Facebook is facing more than a dozen international investigations into its history of privacy violations, Wired magazine has reported — “from its years of willy-nilly data sharing to several recent data breaches.” Though it cloyingly describes itself as a place for people to connect, Facebook is — in its dark heart — all about selling its own users to advertisers.
Whatever Facebook is, it’s a financial behemoth, with a market valuation of more than $560 billion — that’s astonishing growth for something started 15 years ago in Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room. While government regulators worldwide struggle with what to do, and while Facebook cloaks its promises in platitudes, its users would be wise to turn elsewhere for protection:Quitting Facebook is one viable option. Celebrities such as Cher and Elon Musk and tech journalists including Walt Mossberg have announced that they were walking away as part of the #DeleteFacebook movement.
One example: By manipulating Facebook’s privacy settings, you can stop the phone app from constantly tracking your movements and storing this information for years.
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