Would be nice if people prepare a series of questions about this for the next time Zuck is in the hot seat before Congress. Even if it doesn’t break any laws and acquired consent, this still smell so bad.
Facebook will shut down its controversial market research app for iOS
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#12Or rather -
"Facebook was FORCED to remove its app by Apple".
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#13Or rather - "Facebook was FORCED to remove its app by Apple".
Where does it say that?
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#14> It will apparently continue to be available for Android users. That's another interesting move.
Just like “Onavo Protect” still is available on the Play Store - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onavo.spac...
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#15"Sorry we got caught"
Caught doing what? What they did was perfectly fine. Legal even under the GDPR, and people were being paid for it, which is the usual lament here ("nobody is paying me for my data").
Admit it, you just hate Facebook.
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#16well that was pretty fast.. less than 8 hours after the original post hits #1 on HN.
That just shows how many Facebook employees are on HN
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#17Yeah Facebook definitely just shut it down and walked away, definitely.
No harm done...
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#18What a bullsh*t. People got some money for giving up some privacy. Nobody was forced to do this. And now everybody is freaking about a fairly reasonable trade.
What's next? People will start harassing students/researchers that do paid studies?
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#19"Sorry we got caught"
Caught doing what? What they did was perfectly fine. Legal even under the GDPR, and people were being paid for it, which is the usual lament here ("nobody is paying me for my data"). Admit it, you just hate Facebook.
What Facebook, politicians, and many others fail to understand is that there's a difference between legal and morally right.
Facebook makes it exceedingly easy for people to hate them, while technically doing nothing wrong. Well sometimes they break the law, but then Zuckerberg just says he's sorry and we all move on.
It's getting tiresome to watch our industry behave recklessly in the pursuit of ad revenue and the push to collect more and more data about the unsuspecting public.
I enjoy my work in IT, but companies like Facebook, and increasingly Google and Apple, then entire IoT business and a ton of startups are increasingly pushing me towards being less connected, less interested in new technology. It seems like a huge chunk of industry is misguided. I'm sick and tired of it.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Caught doing what? What they did was perfectly fine. Legal even under the GDPR, and people were being paid for it, which is the usual lament here ("nobody is paying me for my data"). Admit it, you just hate Facebook.
What Facebook, politicians, and many others fail to understand is that there's a difference between legal and morally right. Facebook makes it exceedingly easy for people to hate them, while technically doing nothing wrong. Well sometimes they break the law, but then Zuckerberg just says he's sorry and we all move on. It's getting tiresome to watch our industry behave recklessly in the pursuit of ad revenue and the p…
What you fail to understand is that the average layman doesn't care about data collection and ad tech. If it pisses you off that people don't care about the same things you do, welcome to politics.