As Facebook continues to weather a string of legal battles and harsh criticism for its never-ending privacy disasters and a generally lackadaisical attitude towards consumer data, the social networking site kicked off its annual F8 annual developer conference at San Jose yesterday. It took to the event to outline a new “privacy-focused vision” for the company. “The future is private,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the crowd of 5,000 developers, creators and entrepreneurs assembled who reacted to the remark with dead silence. As part of that transition, the company plans to merge together its three massive messaging apps — Messenger, Instagram…

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