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Facebook Portal – Privacy review

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Re: Facebook Portal – Privacy review

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Post by School-Cotton »

JensRex wrote: post #32
dpcan wrote: post #7

I cannot even think of a single person in any of my networks of people who would buy this and put it in their home. It has "hell no" written all over it. It's almost arrogant or bizarre that they would try to launch such a product given how people feel about Facebook and privacy. I suppose it's simply to satisfy shareholders who think Facebook needs to compete in this market???? It's the Zune of the Living-Room Assis…

I agree, but it's not very different from Alexa or Google Home, and people are buying those, for some reason.

Why is owning an Amazon Echo any worse for privacy than owning a smartphone?

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Post by warkdarrior »

SN76477 wrote: post #37
ekianjo wrote: post #35

I wish Mozilla would stop criticizing everything that moves in the name of virtue and instead focus on making great products.

They are just following along with their mission statement. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/ Our mission: Keep the internet open and accessible to all.

How does privacy fit into their mission of keeping the Internet open and accessible? It is an orthogonal issue.

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Post by lostlogin »

dmitriid wrote: post #33
wolco wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just wait until they turn all photos public even ones deleted in the past. It is in their terms if they choose.

It was a programming mistake. Only a few accounts were affected. Inadvertently. Only 300 000 users affected. We're committed to privacy as always and in the coming year well take steps to make sure this never happens again. Our estimations were incomplete and a tad off, 270 million accounts affected, possibly more. Our users are at the center of all we do and will do everything in or power to protect their data.

I’d this a joke lacking /s, or a genuine post?

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Post by bogwog »

sodosopa wrote: post #36
dmitriid wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was a programming mistake. Only a few accounts were affected. Inadvertently. Only 300 000 users affected. We're committed to privacy as always and in the coming year well take steps to make sure this never happens again. Our estimations were incomplete and a tad off, 270 million accounts affected, possibly more. Our users are at the center of all we do and will do everything in or power to protect their data.

“Only 300,000” You’re minimizing exposing information of enough people to populate most of Cincinnati, Ohio (301k)? Casting that as “only 300,000” is sickening.

Pretty sure they were joking

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Post by zhobbs »

dpcan wrote: post #7

I cannot even think of a single person in any of my networks of people who would buy this and put it in their home. It has "hell no" written all over it. It's almost arrogant or bizarre that they would try to launch such a product given how people feel about Facebook and privacy. I suppose it's simply to satisfy shareholders who think Facebook needs to compete in this market???? It's the Zune of the Living-Room Assis…

I'm considering purchasing one. In general, I value convenience and personalization over privacy. I completely don't relate to the idea of relevant ads being a bad thing.

Anyways, as someone who spends a lot of time panning a laptop or iPad to track a toddler who is FaceTiming grandma, this device solves an important problem for us.

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Post by brentm »

earino wrote: post #20

This title is somewhat problematic. It makes it sound like the portal has "privacy not included" and yet that is the name of the blog. In fact, the Portal meets the Mozilla Foundation's "Minimum Security Standards". It gets a yes for encryption, security updates, strong password, manages vulnerabilities and a privacy policy! This is honestly kind of cruddy. You can feel however you want to feel about Facebook, but th…

HN clickbait

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Post by gonehome »

earino wrote: post #20

This title is somewhat problematic. It makes it sound like the portal has "privacy not included" and yet that is the name of the blog. In fact, the Portal meets the Mozilla Foundation's "Minimum Security Standards". It gets a yes for encryption, security updates, strong password, manages vulnerabilities and a privacy policy! This is honestly kind of cruddy. You can feel however you want to feel about Facebook, but th…

Yeah I’ve seen this twice now for the portal (some CNET article saying people shouldn’t buy it, but not actually reviewing the hardware).

It’s annoying because the portal hardware is actually really great. I got the big one for my mom and I have the TV one and they work extremely well. I was looking for something that did what the portal does on the consumer market about a year before it came out and nothing existed.

This anti-Facebook stuff is mostly just politics and most of it isn’t particularly in depth or accurate.

Re: Facebook Portal – Privacy review

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Post by myrakle »

dmitriid wrote: post #33
wolco wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just wait until they turn all photos public even ones deleted in the past. It is in their terms if they choose.

It was a programming mistake. Only a few accounts were affected. Inadvertently. Only 300 000 users affected. We're committed to privacy as always and in the coming year well take steps to make sure this never happens again. Our estimations were incomplete and a tad off, 270 million accounts affected, possibly more. Our users are at the center of all we do and will do everything in or power to protect their data.

That's pretty impressive. Only 300 000 users affected & still promising to do better next year!

Re: Facebook Portal – Privacy review

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Post by cryptozeus »

dpcan wrote: post #7

I cannot even think of a single person in any of my networks of people who would buy this and put it in their home. It has "hell no" written all over it. It's almost arrogant or bizarre that they would try to launch such a product given how people feel about Facebook and privacy. I suppose it's simply to satisfy shareholders who think Facebook needs to compete in this market???? It's the Zune of the Living-Room Assis…

You are clearly not their target audience. Really zune if living room space, come on man.
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