[jhferris3]

So, I'm going to make a statement that I think is important for anyone reading anything on the internet.

WHAT IS THE PROOF! (also known as 'consider the author', 'read the article', etc)

Now I can't say with certainty that any of these claims are false or true, but it occurs to me that a lot of these claims are based on what facebook MIGHT be doing with your data. I decided to take a look at the complaint and attachments for the shadow profiles case, I don't see any evidence that these shadow profiles exist, just that there is the possibility that they exist.

And for those that will inevitably say that proof isn't necessary, that means you don't trust facebook. If thats the case, there is nothing they can do to prove to you what they're doing is legitimate short of open sourcing their entire stack (and even then, you must trust that what they're running == the source they give you). So either trust that what they're saying is true, find evidence that they're doing something they aren't supposed to, or stop using the service entirely.

[drats]

Your boss has called his users "dumb fucks", doesn't delete data about them that he says he does and is tracking all their website visits and more. Can you perhaps see past your big salary to how people are, in general, worried? Given the number of lies already told and weird stuff already done why shouldn't people believe new rumours? Watch the video report he was emailed, by your company, huge amounts of data. Much of that data was supposed to be deleted.

[alexgartrell]

Disclaimer, jack works with me at Facebook, so he's going to be biased (as will I). However, it is true that there appears to be a circular dependency between speculation and outrage here, and that probably isn't the greatest thing in the world. All I can do is tell you to keep looking for evidence (seriously, keep us honest), and we will earn your trust again some day.

[jhferris3]

Correct. I thought that was in my profile info (it wasn't has since been updated). That said, I was going out of my way to make my comment as general purpose as possible (I think evaluating the bias of anything you read on the internet is generally a Good Idea(tm) )