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Geez, even the author of this piece is "Founder/CEO of Digital Barriers, which develops advanced surveillance technologies for frontline security and defence agencies as well as commercial organizations in the US, Europe and Asia. The company is at the forefront of AI-based surveillance."
How can this person even be trusted ? or what are you implying?
Why on Earth would you install the Facebook app on your phone?
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I'm guessing here, but perhaps that is since apple revenue isn't ad-driven in the same sense Facebook is?
None can be trusted. Doesn't matter what either party claims to sell/not sell. Google started off with "Do no evil" as a motto at some point in its history.
I have much more faith in a company staying true to the latter. Not 100% faith, because their assessment of what business model to pursue can change, but it’s certainly not comparable in flakiness to corporate idealism.
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Unfortunately it's not that simple for everyone. I personally would lose contact with a lot of people if I delete Messenger or Whatsapp. On all my contacts, I have two on Signal, zero on Matrix.
I really hate it when people say “just delete Facebook apps”. I would lose touch with almost everyone I know. They either use Facebook or WhatsApp, I can’t justify deleting either.
This is an OS privacy bug, and isn't specific to Facebook. If an app does not have location permissions, it should not receive the geolocation portion of photos' EXIF metadata.
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I really hate it when people say “just delete Facebook apps”. I would lose touch with almost everyone I know. They either use Facebook or WhatsApp, I can’t justify deleting either.
Actually these type of situation show who are your friends. Your friends will call you, text you and arrange meets. And There’s FaceTime if your far from friend. Stop relying on Facebook to connect you…
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> And There’s FaceTime if your far from friend. Stop relying on Facebook to connect you…
I'm not even sure to describe how ignorant this comment is. Even if I stop relying on Facebook to connect me. Now I'm relying to Apple to connect me? Am I supposed to tell me friends that because I don't use Facebook, they should all buy an iPhone to connect with me?
Yeah. This is not particularly a Facebook problem. And it certainly is not an iPhone exclusive one. I would be willing to bet my 2¢ that Apple photo backups store your photos with exif data. Should be trivially easy to strip this info and "track" you as well. Am not seeing anyone crying over this.
I'm guessing here, but perhaps that is since apple revenue isn't ad-driven in the same sense Facebook is?
(Non ad location business: hazard profile based on where you hang out. Frequency of pub visits may impact your life insurance rates)