Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent

Post by bluntfang » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 12:11 PM UTC

jayawayjayyay wrote: post #52

smt88 wrote: post #42

Saying "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…

Post by hluska » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 12:12 PM UTC

Post by zach43 » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 12:14 PM UTC

jayawayjayyay wrote: post #52

smt88 wrote: post #42

Saying "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…

Post by kaolti » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 12:15 PM UTC

malms wrote: post #45

throwaway_9168 wrote: post #40

Since 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.

Post by swebs » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 12:17 PM UTC

hluska wrote: post #63

At some point, some government is going to have to step in and stop Facebook. Five years ago, I would not have believed that I would have supported government action. Now, I’m afraid for the future if there is no intervention.