> After all, when FB originally released their developer APIs that let developers gain access to friend data without the friend's explicit permission, there was barely a peep about that (among security/privacy researchers, sure, but among the general populace, no)
You're telling me that the average plumber and teacher and waiter didn't complain when Facebook introduced an interface for developers? No way.
> Bro, did you see the new API that FB put out that totally foobars luser privacy?
> Dude, I teach kindergarten, wtf is an API?
Obviously people trying to explain it aren't going to be using that language, but to outsiders it'll sound that way. And tech nerds aren't known for being able to explain things to laymen in the first place.
You're telling me that the average plumber and teacher and waiter didn't complain when Facebook introduced an interface for developers? No way.
> Bro, did you see the new API that FB put out that totally foobars luser privacy?
> Dude, I teach kindergarten, wtf is an API?
Obviously people trying to explain it aren't going to be using that language, but to outsiders it'll sound that way. And tech nerds aren't known for being able to explain things to laymen in the first place.