Madam Chairman, ladies and gentlemen

Good afternoon.
We, the negative side, firmly believe that Facebook is violating its users’ rights to privacy to
make quick profits. According to the Oxford dictionary, privacy is “the state or condition of being
free from being observed or disturbed by other people”.
Based on this consensus of the definition, we further explain why the personal information
uploaded by users on Facebook is in the scope of privacy. It is because users tend to perceive
that the info they post on Facebook are only accessible to their friends. This underlying setup is
given by the market positioning of Facebook -- a social networking platform focusing on the
socialization between acquaintances. At its innate stage, Facebook, which was still a campus bbs
website, only allowed the registry of Harvard students, since the very beginning, Facebook has
positioned itself as an acquaintance socializing platform. In its subsequent development, Facebook
had also attracted many users regard it as a private place. Therefore, we negative side argues
that, as using Facebook, it is natural for users to default that their information posted on this
platform will only be seen by someone they know, rather than being inquired by Facebook
and be analyzed to be exposed to other people and 3rd parties
(3) However, many uses of these info are beyond Facebook’s permitted rights. Besides
voluntarily posted info, Facebook also extract and analyze other sensitive info, such as user’s
social relations and daily routine. In 2015, the Cambridge Analytica scandal reveals that data from
Facebook users were even used in an attempt to manipulate theses people’s attitude in the election.
Furthermore, it remains questionable if Facebook has the permission of those posted
data. Even if the users agree with the privacy policy, it is not a real consent, but an artificial
one. The policy terms, which ought to be easy to read and understand, is now far too obscure. The
details are often buried in overly long terms of legal and technical jargon. It's hard NOT to suspect
that this is designed to conceal the users from what permissions they are actually agreeing for.
Therefore, Facebook implicitly induces users to give rights to spy on their personal information.
This, without doubts, violates the right of privacy.
(4)Privacy is also defined as a hyper norm, which means it can be defines by a civilized
society and its laws and regulations. Our third point is, From a legal perspective, Facebook's
behaviors also violate users' privacy. It is illegal for Facebook to collect, analyze users' personal
information, and share with third parties. Evidence is irrefutable. In 2016, Facebook was accused
of violating llinois Biometric Information Privacy Act because the company used facial
recognition technology in its photo-tagging feature to scan facial images uploaded by users
without consent. The court condemned Facebook to pay a total of $650m to about 1.6 million
class-action claimants. Similar rules are also supported by the California Biometric Information
Privacy Act.

Thus, Facebook's violation of users' privacy is against the law in many areas. Therefore,
ladies and gentlemen, we want to emphasize again that what Facebook is doing today is a severe
invasion of user privacy. Facebook shouldn’t send any personal information to any other people,
nor should they collect any personal information without users’ permission. Otherwise, the users
are exposed to the risk of being spied via their closed and disclosed information.