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I just deleted the Facebook app from my iPhone. I have no idea if it altered any of my contacts, but this certainly does scare me enough to warrant deletion.
Well, this is my gripe with their "go fast and break things" mantra. It works as long as you have such a highly desirable product that your users just don't care if you're doing everything right. (Or maybe you're in a non-mission-critical business, or better yet, your customers are a bunch of kids!) I'm all for going fast and sincerely believe in "A sense of urgency", but Facebook is really lucky they're not serving…
Facebook is serving shareholders now. I'm hoping there are some serious repercussions internally at FB for this, because as a shareholder, I'm pissed they messed this up because the user base is upset and will continue to stop trusting Facebook. How's the stock supposed to get back to 38 now?
How does this not violate CFAA? This really sounds like a company that believes it is above the law.
Uh, how could it violate CFAA? It's their own systems, and their data (they own it all).
Is it not illegal to intercept private communications without the parties' consent? Seems like this opens them up to a massive lawsuit...
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Possibly, but just for the sake of an interesting discussion, what is there about this particular blatant “It screws users over but it's good for Facebook” move that is different than all the other moves they’ve pulled?
I think the difference here is that everything they've done before now has been more or less bounded by my own actions. If they screw my privacy, it's my own damned fault for posting sensitive stuff to their site. Hell, even if they track me around the web, I should've been more careful about blocking their cookies. But this is another ballgame. What they've done here is effectively hijack a completely unrelated and…
As someone who quit facebook a while back, I can't help but feel that this kind of event vindicates me. Sometimes I'm tempted to re-create a minimal account on the service just for findability, but even that small step would have been enough for facebook to hijack my contact info in a friend's phone. There really is no way to have a facebook account at all, no matter how infrequently you use it, without getting screw…
How do you know when someone has deleted their Facebook account? They'll tell you.
Well, this is my gripe with their "go fast and break things" mantra. It works as long as you have such a highly desirable product that your users just don't care if you're doing everything right. (Or maybe you're in a non-mission-critical business, or better yet, your customers are a bunch of kids!) I'm all for going fast and sincerely believe in "A sense of urgency", but Facebook is really lucky they're not serving…
Why would anyone on God's green earth sync their Address book to facebook!?! It's a social network for crying out loud, not a work place! WT..!! This is what happen's when you mix work and pleasure ha ha, it's a stupid kid's playground to post stupid thing's and do nothing all day! I just can't get past it, why would anyone sync their address book to FB!? ha ha ha
I just deleted the Facebook app from my iPhone. I have no idea if it altered any of my contacts, but this certainly does scare me enough to warrant deletion.
I wish I could do that. I wonder if Facebook paid HTC a lot of money to make the Facebook app un-uninstallable.
Root it and use titanium backup to force uninstall, it's how I removed all the junk.
Well, this is my gripe with their "go fast and break things" mantra. It works as long as you have such a highly desirable product that your users just don't care if you're doing everything right. (Or maybe you're in a non-mission-critical business, or better yet, your customers are a bunch of kids!) I'm all for going fast and sincerely believe in "A sense of urgency", but Facebook is really lucky they're not serving…
(Granted, a LOT of Facebook touches personal information, but something like this is pretty tendril-y in its reach).