Comments on: When do you throw a CEO’s privacy under the bus?

By: Scobleizer

Scobleizer — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:41:20 +0000

If you want to be private what the heck are you doing putting your data on someone else's service? It's a free service. If you want to be private stay the hell off and host all your data on servers and machines YOU control!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 02:32:18 +0000

I expect more from you Scoble, do you now work for facebook too?Please think what ever you want about privacy but do NOT attack me or anyone who cares about his privacy. You are blogger,your life is: public,you want everyone to know about you,to see what you share,where are you,what you eat and I really respect that.I am geek,programmer and engineer but I care about my data and dont like what facebook do with it.
What you and Mark are talking about is money,money,money. I know it very well. Please stop talking to ppl BS about 'good,not evil companies'. There is no that BS in “company” world. It's just PR and if you don't get it then you should leave your job for few months and go to sea without iphone,android,ipad or anything and then come back. Because you are too deep in this ” tech world” and you lost your “moral boundaries” you dont know how regular guy from the street feels when someone doesn't allow him to control things he should control. And,please, don't. …. I know your answer. No, really,dont.

By: wwjimd

wwjimd — Sun, 30 May 2010 16:39:45 +0000

After reading your replies,I change my mind about my earlier post. I no longer thing you are lacking integrity. Now, I think, unfortunately, that you may be a fool when it comes to both context and journalism. Still, this means, to me, that you are not to be trusted on subjects such as privacy, which, is completely dependent on context and expectation.

The context, of, for example, journalism, is completely different than pillow talk. Do you you really not understand this. I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, but your responses are making a task for me.

By: wwjimd

wwjimd — Sun, 30 May 2010 16:30:28 +0000

I think we should be careful with our “shoulds” when applying them to others.

By: wwjimd

wwjimd — Sun, 30 May 2010 16:12:07 +0000

To be comic, with great power comes great responsibility. Zuckerberg, and other comedia powers, have an accountability to the public in regards to the systems that they control which impact the social networks that operate within their defined rulesets. If you were reporting intimate information that had no relation to the public sphere, such as, as a hypothetical example, his difficulties digesting seafood, then, being that it had no impact on the public sphere, then your argument would be more sound.

Being that I consider you intelligent enough to recognize these differences in privacy in relation to degrees of power, but choosing to ignore them, I have doubts about your integrity. While, I respect your attempts to save "industry face," I am concerned about your ability to represent consumer interest. I would ask you to be transparent about what your bottom line is, so we can know whether you are trustworthy or not.

Right now, from my perspective, you are showing up as very sketchy.

By: None of your BO

None of your BO — Thu, 27 May 2010 01:29:53 +0000

Your comparison in this article is fallacious. Jobs and Zuckerberg are, for all practical purposes, public figures. People aren't outing their private, personal emails, they're outing their emails about widespread issues that millions of people are involved in.