In Court, Facebook Blames Users for Destroying Right to Privacy

Sam Biddle, reporting for The Intercept:

Representing Facebook before U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria was Orin Snyder of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, who claimed that the plaintiffs’ charges of privacy invasion were invalid because Facebook users have no expectation of privacy on Facebook. The simple act of using Facebook, Snyder claimed, negated any user’s expectation of privacy. […]

At one point Chhabria asked, seemingly unable to believe Snyder’s argument himself, “If Facebook promises not to disseminate anything that you send to your hundred friends, and Facebook breaks that promise and disseminates your photographs to a thousand corporations, that would not be a serious privacy invasion?”

Snyder didn’t blink: “Facebook does not consider that to be actionable, as a matter of law under California law.”

Like I wrote a few weeks ago, get these Facebook fuckers in court and all of a sudden they tell the truth.

★ Monday, 17 June 2019