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Evey now and again I see a picture or article being shared around saying Facebook are spying on you and how their apps have all these permissions to use your ca

by Pengwin 10y ago

Evey now and again I see a picture or article being shared around saying Facebook are spying on you and how their apps have all these permissions to use your camera and phone audio. If they are on android, I tell them to open their system settings and show them how Google Search has just about every privilege on your phone and has had it since they turned it on. Even if people are concerned they still don't stop using Facebook or android. :/

harryf 10y ago
> Facebook are spying on you and how their apps have all these permissions to use your camera and phone audio. And it's not just the Facebook apps. The Facebook SDK is widely embedded into many other apps Facebook SDK (it's the most popular SDK on iOS for example, according to data published from Cocoapods - https://gist.github.com/ryanolsonk/e33bf9e89677da9fe8ce https://gist.github.com/ryanolsonk/e33bf9e89677da9fe8ce ). It's so popular because Facebook is basically the most effective network to run so called "App Install Ads" and embedding their SDK providers marketers essential data for tuning their targeting and ad spend. The SDK gives Facebook access to a ton of additional usage data which they can link together with anything they already have on your from their apps. It also _potentially_ gives them the ability to exploit any permissions given to the host app which embedded the SDK. Now they publish the source of the SDK openly ( https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk ) but it certainly would harm anyone if there was more independent scrutiny given to analysing the source and whether there's anything else we're not seeing that go into the final SDK downloads.
- stuaxo 10y ago
  Facebook is you spying on yourself, by posting it all that info.
  - 88e282102ae2e5b 10y ago
    I'm not deliberately live streaming every conversation I have all day onto my feed.
    - xufi 10y ago
      Same here but you'd be surprised by how many people I know and you know post 1000 photos of every moment of their summer vacation on a trip. It scares me that they keep uploading all that there
- nstj 10y ago
  You could just build it yourself from the source if you're worried about that. Does the SDK ship with any pre-built binaries?
  - harryf 10y ago
    You're right although most developers are going to get it either pre-built from here https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios/ and add it manually to their project or via Cocoapods (also pre-built I believe)
somecodemonkey 10y ago
They dont stop using because there is no real reason not to. Nothing is free, every 'free' app takes something. Everyone knows this so they dont really care and why should they?

by Pengwin 10y ago

harryf 10y ago

> Facebook are spying on you and how their apps have all these permissions to use your camera and phone audio. And it's not just the Facebook apps. The Facebook SDK is widely embedded into many other apps Facebook SDK (it's the most popular SDK on iOS for example, according to data published from Cocoapods - https://gist.github.com/ryanolsonk/e33bf9e89677da9fe8ce https://gist.github.com/ryanolsonk/e33bf9e89677da9fe8ce ). It's so popular because Facebook is basically the most effective network to run so called "App Install Ads" and embedding their SDK providers marketers essential data for tuning their targeting and ad spend. The SDK gives Facebook access to a ton of additional usage data which they can link together with anything they already have on your from their apps. It also _potentially_ gives them the ability to exploit any permissions given to the host app which embedded the SDK. Now they publish the source of the SDK openly ( https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk ) but it certainly would harm anyone if there was more independent scrutiny given to analysing the source and whether there's anything else we're not seeing that go into the final SDK downloads.

stuaxo 10y ago
Facebook is you spying on yourself, by posting it all that info.
- 88e282102ae2e5b 10y ago
  I'm not deliberately live streaming every conversation I have all day onto my feed.
  - xufi 10y ago
    Same here but you'd be surprised by how many people I know and you know post 1000 photos of every moment of their summer vacation on a trip. It scares me that they keep uploading all that there
nstj 10y ago
You could just build it yourself from the source if you're worried about that. Does the SDK ship with any pre-built binaries?
- harryf 10y ago
  You're right although most developers are going to get it either pre-built from here https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios/ and add it manually to their project or via Cocoapods (also pre-built I believe)

somecodemonkey 10y ago

They dont stop using because there is no real reason not to. Nothing is free, every 'free' app takes something. Everyone knows this so they dont really care and why should they?