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This article and the nyt one are almost completly bullshit. They do not understand the difference between "apps" on phones that integrate with Facebook for sha
by justinsaccount 8y ago
This article and the nyt one are almost completly bullshit.
They do not understand the difference between "apps" on phones that integrate with Facebook for sharing purposes, and "facebook apps" like the quiz crap that Cambridge analytica abused.
There IS the potential that your phone OS vendor used the FB API access and your credentials to steal your data, but does anyone seriously think apple or blackberry did such a thing?
This whole thing is insane. You might as well accuse Google, Apple, Mozilla, and Microsoft of stealing users data because you use their browsers to access facebook.
- shakna 8y ago> There IS the potential that your phone OS vendor used the FB API access and your credentials to steal your data, but does anyone seriously think apple or blackberry did such a thing? Huawei, Xiaomi, and others are a risk for this.
- justinsaccount 8y agoTrue, and if they wanted to steal all of your data they could do so with rootkits and modified TLS libraries. If device manufacturers are stealing users information, at what point are they held accountable instead of FB?
- smt88 8y agoThey are held accountable when FB doesn't help them do it
- tomatotomato37 8y agoTo be honest Google probably does intercept Facebook data given it is their biggest competitor and has a near identical view on user privacy
- TheForumTroll 8y agoPlease stop spreading FUD. This isn't reddit.
- pacifika 8y agoIf the intelligence agencies want the info you’re saying these companies could refuse? No