Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server
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Re: Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server
#2How is this not utterly illegal in the EU, per GDPR? (Which was drafted to stop indiscriminate data acquisition on human subjects: I'm assuming that metadata about the core libraries on your phone, in conjunction with FB's user metadata, are trivially de-anonymizable.)
Re: Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server
#3Previous discussion:
Re: Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server
#4Another reason I'm glad I quit
Re: Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server
#5Another reason I'm glad I quit
Android or Facebook?
Re: Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server
#6Fingerprinting on steroids?
Re: Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server
#7If the actual files are uploaded(?), doesn't this constitute reverse software piracy? Under what license are the uploaded files covered by? Can facebook require the end users to supply the source code for GPL-licensed library binaries uploaded through this system? What about proprietary oem blobs that are often covered by a no-redistribution license or EULA? What if I am an AOSP or vendor developer working on unreleased R&D next-version Android?
Re: Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server
#8Re: Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server
#9How is this not utterly illegal in the EU, per GDPR? (Which was drafted to stop indiscriminate data acquisition on human subjects: I'm assuming that metadata about the core libraries on your phone, in conjunction with FB's user metadata, are trivially de-anonymizable.)
It's not metadata, is IS the binaries.
Re: Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server
#10If the actual files are uploaded(?), doesn't this constitute reverse software piracy? Under what license are the uploaded files covered by? Can facebook require the end users to supply the source code for GPL-licensed library binaries uploaded through this system? What about proprietary oem blobs that are often covered by a no-redistribution license or EULA? What if I am an AOSP or vendor developer working on unrelea…
Nice angle but I guess the defense is that the user explicitly gave Facebook permission to read those files.