Facebook Founder Accused of Hacking Emails
Posted on Mar 08 by Kelly Johnson
Would you trust this man with your private data?
If true, Zuckerberg has committed an ethics breach so large that even coming from what comedian Louis C.K. calls the “the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots,” it’s still shocking.
Business Insider spent 2 years investigating Zuckerberg. For those with short memories it was Zuckerberg who claimed earlier this year that privacy is a “social norm of the past.”
While at the Crunchie Awards in San Francisco, Zuckerberg went on to say:
“Doing a privacy change for 350 million users is not the kind of thing that a lot of companies would do. But we viewed that as a really important thing, to always keep a beginner’s mind and what would we do if we were starting the company now and we decided that these would be the social norms now and we just went for it.”
Business Insider claims that while a student at Harvard, Zuckerberg worried about an article The Crimson, the University’s student newspaper, planned to write on him. The article centered around claims that Zuckerberg had stolen the idea for Facebook from fellow students. The claim was settled for $65 million last year. But back in 2004, Zuckerberg was reportedly worried about the Crimson article. Business Insider says that he boasted to a fellow student that he hacked into the newspaper’s email accounts.
But here’s the kicker. Business Insider says that Zuckerberg used private Facebook login data to match against Crimson staff private email accounts.
Facebook has not denied the claims made in the article. I rarely use Facebook myself, primarily because of their privacy policies. I hope other users will also begin questioning the practicality of having their private data stored by a company headed by a man whose moral compass appears to be severely and irrevocably broken.
Additional Resources:
The New Facebook Privacy Settings: A How-To
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