Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords

Post by sqldba » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 9:33 AM UTC

Traster wrote: post #103

leCapitalist wrote: post #82

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Easy. The engineers who built it care mostly about their total compensation and getting promoted. They therefore gleefully implement the product requirements. The PMs behind the idea also care about the above, except they are held to account by business objectives. By narrowly optimizing for a particular objective (reducing account fraud) in an unprincipled manner, they come up with an insane feature idea like this.…

I find it fascinating how big tech companies are intent on spending enormous sums of money seeking out the top tech talent in the world. Then rather than listen to them when they voice concerns they try to beat them down into submission. I get that if you worked at a company whose core mission is evil that you just have to accept that when you sign up, but there's no reason facebook needs to be make these active mora…

Post by SmellyGeekBoy » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 9:35 AM UTC

raverbashing wrote: post #149

Congratulations, Zuckerberg just beat Gates in complete lack of Ethical behaviour

Post by SmellyGeekBoy » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 9:40 AM UTC

darkpuma wrote: post #20

just_a_dev wrote: post #10

I dont know why anyone with any commonsense still uses Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. They're completely uncontrolled nonsense that I wouldn't trust with my email address. Let alone my phone number. Call me crazy or socially inept, but I value privacy.

Fear Of Missing Out. Many people feel compelled to remain on Facebook because they're afraid of missing out on events that get scheduled through Facebook. But here is what I discovered: people who like you will go out of their way to make sure you get the invitation, even if that means using something barbaric and old fashioned like a phone number or email address. FOMO is probably Facebook's most valuable asset, but…

Post by mosselman » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 9:42 AM UTC

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LinkedIn has been doing this for years. It's the reason why I don't use it (and the spam they send is the reason why everybody hates them).

You mean emails? I've managed to turn them all off; if that doesn't work, you can file a complaint with the EU who have strict laws against e-mail spam, and the requirement to unsubscribe with as few actions as possible.

Post by daemin » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 9:47 AM UTC

Benjamin_Dobell wrote: post #83

tapland wrote: post #65

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Swedish payment processor Klarna does something similar to this as well. If bying something through the platform by direct bank transfer you are asked to sign to your bank to accept the payment using BankID [0], which is normal. What is not normal is that they grab your personal identification number and send a login request using BankID before you open your app. When authenticating the login you authorize one of Kla…

POLi in Australia also asks for your bank username and password, logs into your bank's online portal, and performs a bank transfer on your behalf; which is of course in violation of the bank's policies. It's truly insane, if I see any company accepting payment via POLi it's instant verification the company in question is clueless and that I should avoid using their services whenever possible, because they have zero i…