Facebook will shut down its controversial market research app for iOS

Post by dwighttk » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 1:52 PM UTC

gaius wrote: post #77

nelsonic wrote: post #61

Fb is only "shutting down" it's iOS Spyware due to "bad press" not due to a sudden realisation that spying on children who are incapable of understanding the long-term consequences of the privacy invasion is fundamentally wrong/evil. Fb only stop doing things that are obviously morally reprehensible when they get caught or called out in the media. They never proactively doing the right thing. :-(

I would love to be a fly-on-the-wall at some of their meetings when someone says “So we are going to do data collection on minors without parental consent now” and all the developers just say “great I’ll code that up straight away”. Like is there no dissent at all? Is there no one at all who says “guys this is not OK”?

Post by dwighttk » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 1:57 PM UTC

paride5745 wrote: post #10

mattkevan wrote: post #5

So. Onavo was taken down and repackaged as Facebook Research. And now that has been taken down too. Wonder what it will reappear as next?

Facebook NotSpywareWePromise

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 1:58 PM UTC

gaius wrote: post #77

nelsonic wrote: post #61

Fb is only "shutting down" it's iOS Spyware due to "bad press" not due to a sudden realisation that spying on children who are incapable of understanding the long-term consequences of the privacy invasion is fundamentally wrong/evil. Fb only stop doing things that are obviously morally reprehensible when they get caught or called out in the media. They never proactively doing the right thing. :-(

I would love to be a fly-on-the-wall at some of their meetings when someone says “So we are going to do data collection on minors without parental consent now” and all the developers just say “great I’ll code that up straight away”. Like is there no dissent at all? Is there no one at all who says “guys this is not OK”?

Post by sctb » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 2:00 PM UTC

onli wrote: post #41

As context the HN submission of the techcrunch article, for those who missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19031055 . Strangely just vanished from the top position.

Post by randomsearch » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 2:02 PM UTC

gaius wrote: post #77

nelsonic wrote: post #61

Fb is only "shutting down" it's iOS Spyware due to "bad press" not due to a sudden realisation that spying on children who are incapable of understanding the long-term consequences of the privacy invasion is fundamentally wrong/evil. Fb only stop doing things that are obviously morally reprehensible when they get caught or called out in the media. They never proactively doing the right thing. :-(

I would love to be a fly-on-the-wall at some of their meetings when someone says “So we are going to do data collection on minors without parental consent now” and all the developers just say “great I’ll code that up straight away”. Like is there no dissent at all? Is there no one at all who says “guys this is not OK”?