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That seems highly unlikely. I guess it's possible but it doesn't strike me as a good way of getting high-quality data, and in fact it would be easily gamed, and
by grkvlt 11y ago
That seems highly unlikely. I guess it's possible but it doesn't strike me as a good way of getting high-quality data, and in fact it would be easily gamed, and would have larege numbers of false positives.
In general, I think most of the 'Facebook/Google have secretly stolen my personal data with intrusive sureveillance' anecdotes really are the result of someone clicking 'yes', 'yes', 'of course' without thinking when they first signed up, and giving access to their email addresss book or similar, then forgetting about it. They then get more privacy concious later, and suddenly wonder how all the information got there. And since they're privacy concious now they couldn't possibly have uploaded it, so it must be Facebook hacking them.
I've yet to see an actual documented and acknowledged example of a company like Facebook or Google doing the sort of intrusive data mining and surveillance that people accuse them of without the user's permission being given. It always turns out to have been provided at some point previously in the relationship.
- dhimes 11y agoFacebook is absolutely filling in your- or at least my- private information based on context. It has my employment incorrect- based on guesses it has made (I've never given it employment data). It's so far off it's laughable - so I leave it. I figure they expect that I will fix it.
- xorcist 11y agoThat's quite smart, in a devious way. You're probably much more likely to correct incorrect information than you are to fill out an empty form. I know I am.
- teaneedz 11y agoThere are plenty of documented examples of Facebook leaking data due to code changes, bugs, poor QA, or simply not thinking through the details. Good UX also should not fall back on, "We had your permission" when a company has such a historically poor (
- grkvlt 11y agoSure, 100% agree with you there! Facebook are very much into the nasty 'UI and UX Dark Patterns' game; the sort of things for which the 'lifetime achievement' award goes to RyanAir, of course. It seems like they are _trying_ to improve, now that people have noticed. But there's a big difference between: 1.) The Facebook and Google AIs are teaming up and following me and my friends and family around the web to see what we each had for breakfast. 2.) Facebook sort of tricked me into not clicking the button that said I won't not disallow them to keep all my personal information, and link it to my friends data too, if they can.