iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs
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iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs
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#2Funny, when trying to read this article, I got a privacy pop-up about creepy data grabs from “the Oath family”.
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#3Why do applications have access to Bluetooth or WiFi ID's in the first place? Seems too low-level for an app to have access to. Aren't these details better left handled by the operating system?
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#4Since installing the iOS 13 beta I've noticed a bunch of apps asking for bluetooth access. I haven't kept track of every one but I do remember YouTube and Netflix asking for it on their first launch. Thankfully, I haven't witnessed any app failing to work by denying the request though.
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#5Huh, all that and I didn’t see an explicit call out to how Apple has changed the location sharing in the background prompts to include a creepy map, prompting you to wake up a bit instead of automatically hitting Allow location sharing: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/18/ios-13-security-privacy
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#6Why do applications have access to Bluetooth or WiFi ID's in the first place? Seems too low-level for an app to have access to. Aren't these details better left handled by the operating system?
IIRC, some applications use Bluetooth to access beacons, and these beacons in turn can be used for precise location (for example, indoors).
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#7Why do applications have access to Bluetooth or WiFi ID's in the first place? Seems too low-level for an app to have access to. Aren't these details better left handled by the operating system?
It’s helpful so Spotify can start playing music when I connect my headphones, or so apps like Bose Connect can update my headphones. Most features with privacy implications are also features that can add a ton of value if used correctly. The problem is partially the lack of system messaging and partially lack of morals...
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#8Why do applications have access to Bluetooth or WiFi ID's in the first place? Seems too low-level for an app to have access to. Aren't these details better left handled by the operating system?
If by ID you mean BSSID, they don't have access to that.
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#9This article sold me in switching to iPhone. It's like everything about Facebook dating seems like a eugenic program to favour people with a naive and submissive tendency toward power and authorities.
As a technology change, online dating has become a "radical monopoly (Illich)," in the sense that whether you use it or not, you are subject to it, the way a cyclist is subject to the car, and any algorithmic bias or site policy is in effect a eugenics program. Of course nobody criticizes something when they are winning, and an ostensible losers view of dating is the very popular definition of disgusting, but for a ubiquitous global company whose business model reduces to selling ads on addictive pocket slot machines to become a dominant player in the genetic selection game should give people at least some pause.
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#10Tell your non-it friends to uninstall the facebook app and use the web browser interface instead if they want to stay on facebook.
Preferably they also block all 3rd party cookies, use an ad-blocker and occasionally delete all cookies and reset their Ad-Id.