Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client

Post by allover » Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 10:15 AM UTC

orhmeh09 wrote: post #258

allover wrote: post #256

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> it should be opt-in, not opt-out Sure, it would be nice if no company ever shared data with any other company, but that does not track in this case. People signing up for an Apple branded Goldman Sachs credit card shouldn't be surprised or affronted by the fact Goldman Sachs gets anonymised data from Apple. Why the hell anyone would sign up for this crap is beyond me. But it's not a reason to drag Apple into the co…

Have you never heard of deanonymization? In many cases you most certainly can. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.09897.pdf

Of course, but that suggests Apple isn't smart enough to know this and hasn't sufficiently anonymised the data, which is pure speculation?

Post by jgimenez » Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 11:22 AM UTC

anyfoo wrote: post #97

mikenew wrote: post #45

So it sounds like Zoom was using the Facebook SDK, and now they're not. I've been and iOS developer for a long time. I can tell you from experience that everyone does this. I have never worked for anyone who didn't ask for their app to include some combination of Facebook, Google, Flurry, AppCenter, Segment, Intercom, Parse, or whatever other random analytics framework the PM happens to be infatuated with. Getting ma…

Of course passing laws about that is a great solution. This is how society defines what is and what isn’t acceptable behavior for corporations. Are you also typing up rallying paragraphs against laws that dictate how companies have to adhere to food safety? Would your suggestion then be to “get mad at Burger King for not allowing you to perform chemical tests in the restaurant”? “Everyone does it”, like everyone used…

I agree laws help, but well done laws. Not another cookie consent mess again, please.

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