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Facebook’s disingenuous explanations call for more questions and even less trust

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Re: Facebook’s disingenuous explanations call for more questions and even less trust

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I feel this author could write an article about purest, most selfless people, actions or concept on the planet and make them sound dirty and evil.

maybe we can suggest they write about Mother Teresa >> https://www.huffingtonpost.com/krithika-varagur/mother-teres...

Re: Facebook’s disingenuous explanations call for more questions and even less trust

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Isn't that limited to android phones? If you are using iphone , can app have access to texts easily?

No, ios prevented message and call data scraping.

Android keeps pushing me away and IOS just keeps calling to me it seems....

Re: Facebook’s disingenuous explanations call for more questions and even less trust

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With a few exceptions. In particular: > "[P]lease use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. Don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

But was it misleading or clickbait? I'm just curious.

Arguably, yes. It's written to elicit a strong emotional response that can affect the direction and quality of discussion. After all, one of the primary goals of HN is quality discussion.

The mods have written about this when commenting on title changes:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20changed%20title&...

In particular, this one seems appropriate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16336433

Re: Facebook’s disingenuous explanations call for more questions and even less trust

#94

Right next door to a company where I was recently working was a successful startup whose entire business model consisted of using Facebook's commercial API for the analysis of the psychological profiles of its base product (the users), to detect potential terrorists. This outfit's only real customer is Australian law enforcement, and everyone who uses Facebook is attributed some non-zero terrorist score. I have told…

But not using Facebook gives a +80% score too right? I mean, only a terrorist cares about his privacy. I have nothing to hide. :|

Re: Facebook’s disingenuous explanations call for more questions and even less trust

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post #92

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No, ios prevented message and call data scraping.

Android keeps pushing me away and IOS just keeps calling to me it seems....

Probably should report that as spam somewhere. Block that number.
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