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Comment Re:Ha ha ha... (Score 2) 105

From what I hear, unless you add a "liked" page to an interest list, it won't show up in the main feed. Unless they pay to promote a post. I just happened to catch this one in that little side stalker feed that shows people's comments and likes as they happen. It's a result of FB's efforts to "clean up" the main news feed by only showing you the stuff you don't care about, but FB thinks you should see.

Comment Re:Odd... (Score 2) 308

By your logic, if someone has a public conversation in Chinese, it should be illegal to listen to them since proficiency in the Chinese language is "special knowledge".

If you chose to send your personal information via Wi-Fi, cell phone, or other radio signal, you are sending that information as far as the signal will carry it to whomever is in range. If you were having a loud argument in your apartment, would you expect your neighbors to not listen in? If you send your personal information through someone else's private domain, or through the public domain (whether it is via sound wave, electromagnetic wave, or whatever), you have no reasonable expectation that people within range to receive that information aren't listening to it.

Hardline telephones are completely different as the lines themselves belong to the telecoms. If someone taps a phone line, they are tapping the phone company's private property. If you decide to broadcast to everyone in range, that's your problem.

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