Is he delusional, or just dumb?

"It is untenable that facebook does not recognize the opinion of the Privacy Commissioner and change the way it operates with regard to privacy," said the delusional Daniel Therrien the other day. 

Seriously!?  We are talking facebook here, a social media giant that everyone is on all the time.  If you get on facebook, you know the deal.  You can restrict your profile.  Or not.  Otherwise, fb sells your data to advertisers.  The user has all the options here.  Did Therrien not notice that fb has a lot of advertising on it?  That's because advertisers advertise based on the data fb provides them.  Old-school advertisers did the same thing.  They targeted the general public all the time with surveys and the like to get to the consumers they wanted.  What's new here?  Duh, buddy!

The other gang that sells its data to all-and-sundry is StatsCan.  And where does StatsCan get its data?  Why, from The Canada Revenue Agency, of course.  Nothing is "private" and that's because data is needed for everything -- social programs being the biggest user.  How would Therrien's relatives get their welfare and Child Tax Benefit money without stats?

I predict that next Therrien will go after LinkedIn, Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram for "privacy" violations.  How ludicrous.  If you get on any of these sites, it's "buyer beware".  The fact that the Privacy Commissioner has no teeth or power to do anything about anything is proof no one gives a sh-t.  Facebook basically told him to eff off. 

Good on them.  If you don't want your "privacy" violated, don't use social media.