Meta literally ran a man in the middle attack to spy on it's user's encrypted network traffic when they used third party apps [0]. More recently (and relevant to this issue), the engaged in industrial scale piracy to get training data for their LLMs [1]. The idea that they have changed since Zuck was a college student creeping on his female classmates and now wouldn't commit actual crimes against their own users in order to get a bit more data is just demonstrably false.
"If you need information on anyone at Harvard, just ask"?
"I'm going to fuck them [Winklevoss twins] in the ear"?
Applies nowadays? Ok, when? When he copied Snapchat into every single product? When he retracted all his messages on Facebook? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16770818) When he explicitly killed Instagram (buying it) because 'they can hurt us'? Do you want more examples...?
> You really think a throwaway quote when Zuckerberg was a college student applies nowadays?
What does "nowadays" mean? What changed?
> You really think Meta would risk getting a massive (losing) lawsuit on their hands, in exchange for what?
And what is the risk? Food companies are at risk when they put addictive chemicals into food because they get controlled regularly. What is the equivalent here?
The only difference between students doing it then and professionals doing it now is the students had no positive, glaring reason to mistrust.