Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends
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#2Can't wait the apology commercial.
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#3This paints Facebook’s recent marketing campaign in a new light. Here I was thinking we were dealing with a company finally that decided to get their act together and turn themselves around, when in reality it was actually just Facebook trying to whitewash their reputation ahead of all the horrible abuses they knew were about to be exposed.
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#4Nothing will change Facebook's behavior except heavy regulation or the threat of a breakup.
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#5What is this describing? First-party apps with Facebook integration and/or OS features connecting to Facebook? The leakage of Facebook information onto MS/Apple/Blackberry servers would be concerning, but having Microsoft software connect to Facebook on a user's device sounds harmless (to the extent we trust MS/Apple/Blackberry software to not leak information so accessed). Right now I'm giving Apple similar access to every single communication I make through my computer, to my bank accounts and health records, to all the work I do for my employer.
This distinction wasn't made clear in the story (or I can't read) and it's an important one. Privacy is complicated enough already.
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#6Here we go again... it feel like there's no way to break out of this cycle where companies routinely go unpunished for bad behavior. Facebook, Equifax, Wells Fargo...
Re: Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends
#7What is this describing? First-party apps with Facebook integration and/or OS features connecting to Facebook? The leakage of Facebook information onto MS/Apple/Blackberry servers would be concerning, but having Microsoft software connect to Facebook on a user's device sounds harmless (to the extent we trust MS/Apple/Blackberry software to not leak information so accessed). Right now I'm giving Apple similar access t…
Yes, I didn't quite understand that. Apple had this to say:
> An Apple spokesman said the company relied on private access to Facebook data for features that enabled users to post photos to the social network without opening the Facebook app, among other things.
So is this like what connecting your Facebook account in Settings does? Allow you share pictures through the share sheet in Photos or whatever? What does Apple get to see, and what stays on the device?
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#8Can't wait the apology commercial.
maybe another Zuckerberg nationwide tour that he'll chronicle on Facebook if we're lucky.
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#9> "In interviews, Facebook officials defended the data sharing as consistent with its privacy policies..."
Facebook's EULA pretty much gives them carte blanche to do whatever they want with the data you've provided them. Of course, who actually reads EULAs or cares about privacy anymore?
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#10Well, if you want to have your social network app preinstalled on a lot of phones, I guess there's either paying for it or offering up your users.
iPhone doesn't have it preinstalled, no, but if memory serves, there were integrations built in. At least for a while.
Why would they need this data though, really? Once you've bought the device, they could get at the interesting data outright if so inclined?