Honestly I don't understand why Zuck doesn't sell up at Facebook and use his considerable money and brains to move to philanthropy, like billg. His personal brand is going to continue to dive while he's the face of this bullshit.
Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
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Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#42Saying "unintentionally" here is like saying you unintentionally stole someone's TV when they gave you their key to walk their dog.
It takes extra work to upload those contacts, which means several managers and developers decided to do it and then spent time implementing it.
For the FB employees reading this: what is your tipping point? Would you say no to that assignment?
Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#43unintentional my foot the code to implement that functionality didn't come from nowhere
Apparently Facebook is claiming that the functionality came from a separate "import contacts" feature that used to exist. But I agree; the idea that the import logic could have slipped into the login process accidentally is ludicrous. Or at least it indicates an outrageous lack of care on Facebook's part.
I believe "move fast and break things" is a quote often attributed to Facebook. In this case the automatic importing feature might have been something broken, or something working correctly with an excuse that it was "broken".
Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#44Honestly I don't understand why Zuck doesn't sell up at Facebook and use his considerable money and brains to move to philanthropy, like billg. His personal brand is going to continue to dive while he's the face of this bullshit.
Ego.
Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#45Since FB has gone out of their way to weaponize "friendship", my suggestion to everyone who actually likes to have some standards in their life and don't like to be manipulated like that is simple. Just do it back to them. "Unfriend" (IRL) everyone you know who works at Facebook and tell them you will "friend" them back once they leave the company.
Or maybe people could learn again "personal responsibility" and realize that everything they give to facebook is exactly like giving oyur life to any compagny like Coca Cola, and that these compagny can do pretty much anything with it within the limits of the "laws that are actually enforced", whose number is pretty much 0.
Stop complaining, start taking responsibility.
Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#46Nothing will ever change until someone goes to jail, IMHO.
Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#47Saying "unintentionally" here is like saying you unintentionally stole someone's TV when they gave you their key to walk their dog. It takes extra work to upload those contacts, which means several managers and developers decided to do it and then spent time implementing it. For the FB employees reading this: what is your tipping point? Would you say no to that assignment?
>what is your tipping point? Would you say no to that assignment?
When FB stops giving them a check.
At least that has been my experience watching programmers at other companies. Unless ethically bound by regulation and law, few people seem to have ethics.
Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#48Saying "unintentionally" here is like saying you unintentionally stole someone's TV when they gave you their key to walk their dog. It takes extra work to upload those contacts, which means several managers and developers decided to do it and then spent time implementing it. For the FB employees reading this: what is your tipping point? Would you say no to that assignment?
I just tripped and a giant laser melted all the gold in Ft Knox which drained down a pipe into a storage container under my backyard.
Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#49Since FB has gone out of their way to weaponize "friendship", my suggestion to everyone who actually likes to have some standards in their life and don't like to be manipulated like that is simple. Just do it back to them. "Unfriend" (IRL) everyone you know who works at Facebook and tell them you will "friend" them back once they leave the company.
Not everyone has the luxury to be able to discard their health insurance or work visa on a whim to suit your opinion of their employer.
Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#50> Facebook says that it didn't mean to upload these contacts How can you not mean to? It's one thing to say that, were it something tangible, like paper, "Sorry, mate. These pages snuck in with the others. Sorry about that. We'll pull it out. No worries." Pulling contacts and uploading them is not a passive action but takes active action. > and is now in the process of deleting them. So, the question must then be ask…
So Facebook has no QA or Facebook has QA no one listens to? I imagine the latter.