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> Facebook vice president of integrity Guy Rosen The same Guy Rosen who was the CEO of Onvao - the infamous data grab app that Facebook purchased.... yeah, that integrity guy...
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Nothing is preventing you from putting a sticker over your webcam, just like Zuck does.
Or I can close my eyes and imagine that nothing happened Result will be the same Stickers do not work - because people around you do not put it too magically And what even sillier - that someone have phone with installed fb app in 2k19
lulwut?
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Or I can close my eyes and imagine that nothing happened Result will be the same Stickers do not work - because people around you do not put it too magically And what even sillier - that someone have phone with installed fb app in 2k19
>Stickers do not work They do though.
Do everyone put it?
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So we, filthy plebs, have low value and because of that we have to share our data for free Nice
This is an intentional misreading of the parent comment and does not belong on this forum. Zuck being a high value target for extortion/exploitation/attack is an objective fact. Saying so doesn't imply that anyone else is "low value" - attackers will attack whoever and whatever they can to achieve their goal, which is almost always money.
Everyone, not just one person
Nice
None of these “bugs” ever seem to result in accidentally accessing less data. How odd.
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> They appear to be doing this in collaboration with Apple as the battery usage for the camera does not increase despite the camera constantly being initiated while using the Facebook app. I’m sure any battery usage from this would just be listed under Facebook.
Right, battery usage is reported by app not by hardware function. It seems unlikely Apple would be willfully letting Facebook have special capabilities.
Then we learned about PRISM. Hard proof that Apple, Facebook, Google, and the NSA secretly collaborate to mass-collect data on US citizens. It's 100% reasonable (and perhaps in our best interest) to assume any large tech company will and does cater to the NSA/CIA/GCHQ/Mossad's interests before their customers' - or even their shareholders'. Revenue and market share are important, but a powerful agency threatening your company takes priority over anything.
Until proven innocent, we should assume that any and every large tech-centric corporation either has been or can be forced to cooperate with PRISM. IMHO now that the public has access to the Snowden leaks and Vault 7, it is irresponsible (and perhaps dangerous) to think otherwise.
Good time to remind that Facebook has previously intentionally bypassed permission dialogs to gather data without user permission: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5433555/Note-by-C...
Also nice reminder about that lovely photo of Zuck with a sticker covering up his webcam. Now why would he do something like that ... ?
Those who leave a microphone operational when not in use also deserve the consequences of their actions.
Stupid people reap stupid rewards.
Good time to remind that Facebook has previously intentionally bypassed permission dialogs to gather data without user permission: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5433555/Note-by-C...
I wonder if the camera app leaves some by-product that the Facebook app can exploit to derive some data that the user would not usually give to FB.
Perhaps it initializes the GPS without being prompted (as camera uses it for geotagging). Or maybe it checks for the time required to enable the camera, comparing with previous attempts in a kind of A/B test, so it can know if the camera was being used for another app?