This story seems to focus on the minor offenses, ignoring the huge one - not seeing the forest from the trees.
> Twitter employees ... spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia ... passed private information about more than 6,000 Twitter users
2 employees, 6,000 spied on. How about: All employees, everybody spied on? Hundreds of millions of people?
> For most people, the news sparked concerns that companies like Twitter are failing to keep user information secure
For the rest of us, no concern was sparked, because we:
1. Know that some companies were always about selling user information to advertisers and other interested parties, and
2. Noticed when Ed Snowden revealed that the large companies (Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, maybe others) transmit all user information to the US government.
It seems like a lot of US media has been making an effort - one might say an active effort - to have the knowledge of mass (US) government surveillance fade out of our memories.
> Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg described cybersecurity as “an arms race,”
It's more of a quarrel among thieves. Facebook has the "loot" - users' information, which is not kept safe from the company itself (though in many ways it could!) - and whoever has access to the loot can pass it on to other seedy elements.
> As governments get better at imposing online censorship
Censorship is a crude, blunt instrument. Governments try it and mostly fail. It's much more effective to drown stories out with noise and junk and drivel; or to create strung prejudice which prevents people from being open to regime-undesirable opinions and positions.
> Twitter employees ... spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia ... passed private information about more than 6,000 Twitter users
2 employees, 6,000 spied on. How about: All employees, everybody spied on? Hundreds of millions of people?
> For most people, the news sparked concerns that companies like Twitter are failing to keep user information secure
For the rest of us, no concern was sparked, because we:
1. Know that some companies were always about selling user information to advertisers and other interested parties, and
2. Noticed when Ed Snowden revealed that the large companies (Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, maybe others) transmit all user information to the US government.
It seems like a lot of US media has been making an effort - one might say an active effort - to have the knowledge of mass (US) government surveillance fade out of our memories.
> Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg described cybersecurity as “an arms race,”
It's more of a quarrel among thieves. Facebook has the "loot" - users' information, which is not kept safe from the company itself (though in many ways it could!) - and whoever has access to the loot can pass it on to other seedy elements.
> As governments get better at imposing online censorship
Censorship is a crude, blunt instrument. Governments try it and mostly fail. It's much more effective to drown stories out with noise and junk and drivel; or to create strung prejudice which prevents people from being open to regime-undesirable opinions and positions.