FB has said they'll be notifying the people whose contacts they "unintentionally" uploaded. How about notifying those contacts whose private details they illicitly obtained that their privacy has been compromised by Facebook - the innocents who signed up for FB and had their contact-list stolen (let's call it what it is) may or may not feel any moral obligation (more likely, don't even see the issue) to notify their friends/family/plumber whose details they "lost" to a thief.
Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
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#52Saying "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?
From the article it sounds like there was a prompt for permission that got removed:
> Facebook told Gizmodo via email that in May 2016 it made a revision to the registration process, which originally asked the affected users for permission to upload contact lists. That change removed the opt-in prompt, though the company did not realize the underlying functionality was still operating in some cases.
It doesn't take a conspiracy to understand how a bug like that could happen.
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#53Saying "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.
Good luck selling any of it.
Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#54> 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…
> Pulling contacts and uploading them is not a passive action but takes active action.
Action such as "accidentally" asking for email passwords. It is quite remarkable how these accidents line up just so.
Grammar-checking programs should be flagging any use of "accident", "accidentally", "unintended" and "unintentionally" whenever they appear in the same sentence as "Facebook" and are not within quotes.
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#55Saying "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?
“For the FB employees reading this: what is your tipping point? Would you say no to that assignment?”
There is a good chance that they didn’t know how their work would eventually be used. That’s the problem with big companies. Most people are far away from seeing the consequences of their work.
Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#56Since 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.
People aren’t entitled to commit cyber crimes, just because it’s a convenient way to pay the bills.
So far as I can tell, this was Facebook exceeding authorized access to a computer system — at scale. If you or I did this, we’d be looking at felony charges.
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#57Honestly 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.
That feels like a good reason to go and cure malaria or something, and get out of the PR disaster snowball that Facebook is becoming
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#58The headline should use “asked” instead of “asks”
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#59Why would anyone just give a site their password to their email account? And to Facebook on top of that?
Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#60Saying "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?
From the article it sounds like there was a prompt for permission that got removed: > Facebook told Gizmodo via email that in May 2016 it made a revision to the registration process, which originally asked the affected users for permission to upload contact lists. That change removed the opt-in prompt, though the company did not realize the underlying functionality was still operating in some cases. It doesn't take a…
We are talking about Facebook here.