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That is a naive view. If/when the app devs go malicious, it will be Meta on the legal hook for users' "stolen data." The press and users will blame Meta, not t
by xvector 4y ago
That is a naive view. If/when the app devs go malicious, it will be Meta on the legal hook for users' "stolen data."
The press and users will blame Meta, not the developers of this app, or the users that unwittingly handed over their data. The headlines will say "X million Facebook users' data leaked," or "X million Facebook users hacked."
Meta is acting in an entirely reasonable manner for a company under such regulatory and press scrutiny.
- Thorrez 4y agoBlocking the app from accessing Instagram is one thing. Permanently banning the Facebook accounts of all the employees is another.
- josephcsible 4y agoDoes Microsoft get blamed every time credentials get stolen from a Windows box? Why would this be any different?
- cortesoft 4y agoIf Microsoft provided a public API where you could download all the credentials for both the user and all their friends, then yes, Microsoft would be blamed.
- stevewatson301 4y agoBecause FB was blamed for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which, at its core, was simply an issue of providing Oauth2 logins to third parties.
- Dylan16807 4y agoThat's a potential privacy violation. Distinguishing "it violates privacy" and "it could violate privacy if the code was changed" is not naive.
- xvector 4y agoAre you seriously saying it should be Meta's job to continuously reverse engineer a third party client (that doesn't even have a privacy policy) to figure out if it violates users' privacy? That's absurd. Far more sensible to just ban it and call it a day.
- Dylan16807 4y agoI didn't say that. What I said is that the two scenarios are very different. ipsum2 is accusing the devs of already violating privacy. Also their privacy policy is here: https://www.theogapp.com/privacy https://www.theogapp.com/privacy