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"You Have Zero Privacy Anyway. Get Over It"–That Goes Double on Social Networks

Kara Swisher in News on February 16, 2009 at 5:36 pm PT

When Sun Microsystems Gadfly-in-Chief Scott McNealy made his infamous statement about online privacy online in 1999, there was a horrified hubbub at the time that he had the audacity to say such a thing. You know, that he actually uttered such a terrible thing as the truth. What a shock then that everyone is now in yet another tizzy about Facebook changes to its Terms of Service, which pretty much state the obvious again by noting that Facebook archives info you posted, even if you quit the service. As in: You cannot take it back, if you have shared with 476 of your closest “friends,” your bikini shots from Cabo.