On: Microsoft to buy Skype for $7 billion

[crocowhile]

How can you put Google and Facebook next to each other talking about privacy? They are on different planets.

[blub → crocowhile]

No, they are very similar.

* Most of the services they provide are free (with a hidden privacy tax).

* They make most of their money based on analyzing their user's data.

* Both have a hostile attitude towards privacy, claiming that it's dead, trying to make it look old fashioned and irrelevant.

[VMG → blub]

this doesn't exist on facebook: http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/

[blub → VMG]

There are companies that say "we don't track or store your information" and then there are companies that write five page long privacy policies that link to other privacy policies and so on.

[monopede → blub]

Both have a hostile attitude towards privacy, claiming that it's dead, trying to make it look old fashioned and irrelevant. [Citation Required]

[ianferrel → monopede]

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=zuckerberg+schmidt+privacy+is+dead