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Except to show that notification on your phone, Facebook needs to give a 3rd party (Phone Manufacturer) access not only to your data, but data about your friend
by ghostbrainalpha 8y ago
Except to show that notification on your phone, Facebook needs to give a 3rd party (Phone Manufacturer) access not only to your data, but data about your friends.
This is something people are currently very upset with them for doing.
So they can make things convenient, or keep your data safe, but its hard to do both.
- ntlve 8y agoTheir code is executing with a third party kernel, trusting that but not trusting the notification system which sits way above hierarchically seems like a very arbitrary delineation.
- hactually 8y agoThat's simply not true. It's an API to publish a notification - a similar API to that used to build the core app. There's no additional sharing of data than what's already happening running the app.
- tripzilch 8y ago> So they can make things convenient, or keep your data safe, but its hard to do both. Even if your argument made sense with respect to the thing people are currently very upset about (which I disagree that it does), there is absolutely NO inherent right for FB to exist if they're unable to do both (if it's just "hard", well then get busy). If I want to keep my data safe, they get to "inconvenience" me? That's ridiculous, if they can't keep my data safe, they don't get shit. "But it's hard!" cry me a river