There is something nearly poetic about the fact that Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg all but renounced his past views on data privacy on Ash Wednesday, the start of a 40-day period of atonement in the Christian liturgical calendar.
Although the timing was undoubtedly coincidental, this was the infamous social media giant’s most telling renunciation of past sins. Like a rambling late-night call from a desperate ex, Zuckerberg’s 3,000-word treatise, posted on Facebook, practically begged users to trust him and his site once again: We know you’ve been hurt, but that was the old Facebook; we’ve changed and matured so much; you need to give us another chance.
