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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Facebook's "privacy policy vote" fizzles - as they
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Facebook's "privacy policy vote" fizzles - as they knew it would
Whopping .00038% of Facebook users vote on data use policy change
http://j.mp/KDQMVx (ars technica)
"Facebook closed the vote on its new data use policy and new statement
of rights and responsibilities Friday, with a paltry 342,632 ballots
cast as of a minute before closing. The vote needed 270 million
participants to be binding, but falling far short of that benchmark,
Facebook will use the vote tally in an advisory manner as it mulls a
change over its new policies."
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The whole concept of voting on privacy policy changes in this way was
ludicrous from the word go. And Facebook knew it all along.
--Lauren--
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