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So CuteApp allows you to read FB messages and email from their app. They cut deal with FB but you still need to want to do it and then enter your FB credentials
by onetimemanytime 8y ago
So CuteApp allows you to read FB messages and email from their app. They cut deal with FB but you still need to want to do it and then enter your FB credentials while in CuteApp. Unless messages are saved in the app, unsecured, I see no problem. FB users read his messages somewhere else but using their FB credentials. (If I understood it correctly)
- bdibs 8y agoThe bigger issue is that the vast majority of users aren't informed about what they're granting access to. If they truly knew half of what these applications were doing with their "private" information, I can guarantee less than half would continue using it.
- hackinthebochs 8y agoNo you can't guarantee that. From my experience, most people simply don't care.
- ameister14 8y agoNo, CuteApp allows you to read FB messages and email from their app. They cut a deal with FB and even if you don't use the service, CuteApp can still access your messages. You don't actually know about the service - it isn't in the permissions and you didn't give explicit consent for it. Doesn't matter.
- justinsaccount 8y agoDo you have any evidence to back up these claims?
- ameister14 8y agoYes, actually. 1. There is no record of an explicit permissions check, and there are records of other checks. 2. Facebook has acknowledged (multiple times, now) giving read/write access as long as you were logged in through Facebook to one of these systems - you don't have to explicitly enable it and engage the message service, which is what OP was saying. 3. They say: "No third party was reading your private messages, or writing messages to your friends without your permission." They aren't saying that no third party was reading or writing messages, just that you gave it permission to do so. Unfortunately, that permission was, again, not explicitly given. It was a blanket (access data) permission. Facebook has a documented and admitted history of obfuscating what permissions you are actually giving it - the messaging app being one example.
- justinsaccount 8y agoYou said: > even if you don't use the service, CuteApp can still access your messages. You don't actually know about the service I don't disagree that permissions dialogs can be confusing and misleading, but you were initially claiming that CuteApp could access your messages even if you have never used it. Are you no longer making this claim?
- ameister14 8y agoNo, I am making the claim that you don't have to use the message service for them to read your messages. I was unclear.