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Facebook's open disdain for privacy

Facebook is among the most powerful internet companies – maybe the most powerful together with Google – in the world.

It has 400m users, 35m of whom use it at least once a day. It is the most visited website in the US. Its initial public offering, which is expected within a year or two, would be the biggest Silicon Valley event since Google's IPO in 2004.

Facebook is thus important not only to investors but to everyone interested in the future of the internet, which is practically all of us. If it decides, in Google's phrase for deceiving or messing around with its customers, to “be evil” then millions feel the effects.

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约翰•加普

约翰·加普(John Gapper)是英国《金融时报》副主编、首席产业评论员。他的专栏每周四会出现在英国《金融时报》的评论版。加普从1987年开始就在英国《金融时报》工作,报导劳资关系、银行和媒体。他曾经写过一本书,叫做《闪闪发亮的骗局》(All That Glitters),讲的是巴林银行1995年倒闭的内幕。

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