This is still the same mentality for a company that told us out right, “we can’t wait to show you the changes we have coming up, you’re going to love them,“ then proceeded to launch an Amazon.com integration which posted people’s purchases to their timeline, violating any number of users’ assumptions about privacy.
In the mildest cases, grandparents’ purchases for their grandchildren‘s birthday presents were revealed unintentionally in their timeline. And in the more concerning cases, individuals purchased items that revealed their sexual proclivities, and this is in an era when people were less informed about separating their work and private lives on The Facebooks.