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April 14, 2018 11:34 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_dYhUnk4efs/facebook-competitor-orkut-relaunches-as-hello
Facebook Competitor Orkut Relaunches as 'Hello'
An anonymous reader quotes Bloomberg:In 2004, one of the world's most popular social networks, Orkut, was founded by a former Google employee named Orkut Buyukkokten... Orkut was shut down by Google in 2014, but in its heyday, the network had hit 300 million users around the world... "Hello.com is a spiritual successor of Orkut.com," Buyukkokten told BloombergQuint..."People have lost trust in social networks and the main reason is social media services today don't put the users first. They put advertisers, brands, third parties, shareholders before the users," Buyukkokten said. "They are also not transparent about practices. The privacy policy and terms of services are more like black boxes. How many users actually read them?" Buyukkokten said users need to be educated about these things and user consent is imperative in such situations when data is shared by such platforms. "On Hello, we do not share data with third parties. We have our own registration and login and so the data doesn't follow you anywhere," he said. "You don't need to sell user data in order to be profitable or make money."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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