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Facebook also saw the social movement of people with the desire to communicate freely, without being watched or spied on, and without communication being set in stone. Facebook is very cleverly following that movement. Moreover, it also brings positive PR with it (to the annoyance of critics).

Thompson concludes his analysis of the "privacy cake" by pointing out that you shouldn't expect Facebook to simply aba b2b email list ndon its core business. But you also shouldn't be surprised that Facebook can initiate genuinely user-friendly changes while helping its own business.

Maurits Martijn takes a slightly more pessimistic view in his critical piece on De Correspondent : “Zuckerberg’s letter does not change the cause of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It does not change the cause of almost every privacy scandal. In short, there is no privacy spring, there is a new product (…)”