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No. But could they prove it with the standard FB app either? I mean, you are typing your user name and password on that phone, if you assume the manufacturer is
by lazaroclapp 8y ago
No. But could they prove it with the standard FB app either? I mean, you are typing your user name and password on that phone, if you assume the manufacturer is outright malicious, then official API access doesn't really matter one way or the other. An API used to create a third party client is generally a good thing and doesn't actually change this (unless I am missing something here).
You could, however, with some trouble, check which data is going where on your own device, as long as that API isn't meant for direct connection between FB servers and those of a third party.
- makomk 8y agoNot only could you check which data is going where on your own device, the journalists behind this reporting did in fact do this with a Blackberry for their previous story: https://twitter.com/laforgia_/status/1003619319736143872 https://twitter.com/laforgia_/status/1003619319736143872 They sniffed the network access of the Blackberry as they logged into Facebook via the built-in support, saw it pulling down a bunch of information direct from Facebook to the local device and nothing else, and wrote it up as though it were somehow scandalous and a breach of privacy that Facebook didn't see this as giving a third party access to that information. They didn't let the fact that they knew the third party wasn't receiving that data get in the way of fearmongering then, and I doubt they would here either.