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Facebook has, though, historically been less than honest about consent I bet "agree to" is "we clicked the box for you anyway"

dylan604 1y ago
Oops, we totally didn't mean to, but an undiscovered bug did not obey the check box and slurped in everything anyways.
- jiggawatts 1y ago
  My KPIs? I don’t see what my new Lamborghini has to do with anything!
- bigiain 1y ago
  "Somebody moved fast and broke things. We have no idea why they thought that was appropriate behaviour on production systems, it's completely against company policy." It's surprising(not) how that class of error always seems to fall on the side of Facebook grabbing more data without consent, and never on the side of accidentally increasing user privacy.
  - ashdksnndck 1y ago
    How would you know? If Facebook has a bug that accidentally increases user privacy, does The Verge write an article about it?
    - shakna 1y ago
      If the Verge hears, you'd probably get something like this [0]. [0] https://www.theverge.com/news/694246/google-android-pixel-watch-3-bluetooth-6-sounding-tracking-wear-os-update https://www.theverge.com/news/694246/google-android-pixel-wa...
JKCalhoun 1y ago
Curious about accounts that have been deactivated/deleted.
- bigiain 1y ago
  Mine has been deleted for almost 10 years now. I fully assume they've retained and are mining every post I made, every photo I uploaded, and every interaction I ever had on FB, and are still using FB tracking pixels on every website running them to feed more data about me into my profile - and are not only selling that to advertisers but are now training their AI on it without consent at every opportunity.
shakna 1y ago
They trained on libgen without qualms. There's little reason to suspect they'll give the rest of their users more respect.
ashdksnndck 1y ago
Maybe you should get a job at The Verge! I’m sure if you log the Facebook app’s network traffic on your phone and show that it uploads photos without you clicking on the agree button, they’ll happily publish an article about your findings.

dylan604 1y ago

Oops, we totally didn't mean to, but an undiscovered bug did not obey the check box and slurped in everything anyways.

jiggawatts 1y ago
My KPIs? I don’t see what my new Lamborghini has to do with anything!
bigiain 1y ago
"Somebody moved fast and broke things. We have no idea why they thought that was appropriate behaviour on production systems, it's completely against company policy." It's surprising(not) how that class of error always seems to fall on the side of Facebook grabbing more data without consent, and never on the side of accidentally increasing user privacy.
- ashdksnndck 1y ago
  How would you know? If Facebook has a bug that accidentally increases user privacy, does The Verge write an article about it?
  - shakna 1y ago
    If the Verge hears, you'd probably get something like this [0]. [0] https://www.theverge.com/news/694246/google-android-pixel-watch-3-bluetooth-6-sounding-tracking-wear-os-update https://www.theverge.com/news/694246/google-android-pixel-wa...

JKCalhoun 1y ago

Curious about accounts that have been deactivated/deleted.

bigiain 1y ago
Mine has been deleted for almost 10 years now. I fully assume they've retained and are mining every post I made, every photo I uploaded, and every interaction I ever had on FB, and are still using FB tracking pixels on every website running them to feed more data about me into my profile - and are not only selling that to advertisers but are now training their AI on it without consent at every opportunity.

shakna 1y ago

They trained on libgen without qualms. There's little reason to suspect they'll give the rest of their users more respect.

ashdksnndck 1y ago

Maybe you should get a job at The Verge! I’m sure if you log the Facebook app’s network traffic on your phone and show that it uploads photos without you clicking on the agree button, they’ll happily publish an article about your findings.