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posted by fyngyrz on Wednesday April 11 2018, @09:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the that-really-zucks dept.

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Senator Kennedy of Louisiana confronted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the transparency of the social media company's policies on Tuesday.

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"I'm going to suggest you go home and rewrite it, and tell your $1,200 dollar and[sic] hour lawyer...you want it written in English not Swahili, so the average American user can understand," Kennedy said.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/10/senator-to-zuckerberg-your-user-agreement-sucks.html


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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday April 11 2018, @10:54PM (7 children)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Wednesday April 11 2018, @10:54PM (#665607) Journal

    At least one of my former employers required every employee to have a FaceBook account. And they insisted we use our real names. Made it difficult to have 2 separate accounts, and that's the way they wanted it.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @11:16PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @11:16PM (#665618)

    That shouldn't even be legal. Regardless, I would refuse to work for such a person even if it meant living on the streets.

    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Thursday April 12 2018, @03:41AM (1 child)

      by bzipitidoo (4388) on Thursday April 12 2018, @03:41AM (#665728) Journal

      Seems most tech employees could really use a primer on how to handle management.

      Taking an absolute stand is great and all, but it's inflexible. There are many other ways to handle improper demands than the nuclear option of quit and run. At the least, you can just politely refuse to do it, and dare them to fire you. Quitting makes it easy on them. To put them in the position of having to follow through on their threat to fire you is much more awkward for them. It's like in poker, you didn't fold, you called them. They may back down, in which case they were bluffing. Or they may fire you, and then you can sue for improper termination, and may well win. To avoid that, they have to build a case about how you failed to do this and that, weren't a team player, and so on, and that takes time.

      Of course it's rough and tricky to work in a hostile environment. Although some of your fellow employees will be opportunists who see in you a chance to divert blame from themselves at your expense, you may have a lot of support from most of the others who have also been put in difficult positions, and would very much like to see someone, anyone, successfully stick it to management. You have to be very careful you don't hand them an excuse to fire you, and you absolutely must CYA, however tedious it is to insist on written orders so they can't deny that they told you to break the law or asked too much of you, or completely contradicted their orders of last week or whatever. There's always a little of that every workplace, but If it's bad enough, you probably should move on soon, just not too soon.

      Another thing you can do is look for the loopholes, and use them to the max. So you have to have an FB account, okay, fine, make a new account with your first and middle names switched, something like that, and use it as little as possible, and delete it at the first opportunity, like a change in company policy or the end of that job.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @06:42AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @06:42AM (#665781)

        Seems most tech employees could really use a primer on how to handle management.

        I'm not a tech employee. I own my own business (go figure) and would never make such absurd demands of my own employees. If your employer is making such unjust demands of you, chances are that workplace is utterly toxic anyway.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by insanumingenium on Wednesday April 11 2018, @11:25PM (3 children)

    by insanumingenium (4824) on Wednesday April 11 2018, @11:25PM (#665621) Journal

    That, thats a hard no from me. Can't imagine why they would want to be so Orwellian. Only way I would accept those terms is if I was planning on getting me a facebook account and posing protected but detestable shit to anger them.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @08:54AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @08:54AM (#665805)

      The school has a programming class. Required for all students. The teacher- fresh out of uni - created Gmail accounts for all students using the class register. The course requires use of Google products.

      How do you get your kid's info deleted from Google after the fact, and how does your kid do the course work if they don't have an account?

      • (Score: 2) by ewk on Thursday April 12 2018, @10:33AM

        by ewk (5923) on Thursday April 12 2018, @10:33AM (#665836)

        Seems like a problem of the teacher.
        If (s)he does not manage to get the info deleted, sue the crap out of him/her.

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      • (Score: 1) by schusselig on Thursday April 12 2018, @02:15PM

        by schusselig (6771) on Thursday April 12 2018, @02:15PM (#665927)

        I'm pretty sure there's laws in place to prohibit schools from sharing information about minors to third parties. Definitely talk to a lawyer, YMMV.