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David Carroll 🦅
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Second Facebook scandal with kids in a week! #FriendlyFraud and now paying teens to help Facebook cheat the App Store on its banned spyware fake vpn Onavo tcrn.ch/2Wo1J4J
#FriendlyFraud is Facebook’s internal code word for getting kids to rack up in-app purchases on their parents credit cards revealnews.org/article/facebo…
Here is @SenMarkey and @SenBlumenthal’s letter to Zuckerberg about #FriendlyFraud markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
☝️To clarify: That tweet is me just bundling two Facebook scandals-per-week in one convenient package. They aren’t related.
this onavo paid sideloading trickery reminds us of #greyballing doesn’t it @MikeIsaac nyti.ms/2p9ON43
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David Carroll 🦅
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What would happen if companies and organizations that collect and infer data about you were required by law to securely send you your data dossier monthly?
The California Consumer Privacy Act, enforceable summer of 2020, introduces some notions of a Right of Access into the American privacy regime. Applicable companies should be working on how to comply with adequate access requests by California residents (& EU citizens under GDPR)
I think @CenDemTech made a really helpful comparison chart between CCPA, its own national data rights bill, and GDPR. Here’s the comparison on the Right of Access.
cdt.org/insight/compar…
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David Carroll 🦅
@profcarroll
Same State Department that hired Cambridge Analytica’s parent company SCL Group for counterprop after Mike Flynn appears to have helped secure its no-bid/sole-source contract
Here’s article on the FOIA requests that opened up the bidding process of GEC hiring SCL no-bid/sole-source. Timeline overlaps with December 2016 when Mike Flynn was in presidential transition. time.com/5372923/cambri…
Here’s article on Flynn’s initally undisclosed consulting role at SCL Group during Nov/Dec 2016. apnews.com/bfc2de11c52f40…
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David Carroll 🦅
@profcarroll
Whoa: Starting Feb 28, Facebook will reveal in ads who has targeted you by name by uploading your data into Facebook. Still looks like there’s no single, persistent opt-out to hide all ads targeted to you with uploaded Custom Audiences data though. techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/why…
This could allow vigilant Facebook users to hold third-parties accountable who are illegitimately exploiting their data. Especially thinking about EU citizens who could go after naughty advertisers violating their data rights under GDPR.
Would be better if Custom Audiences ads targeted with personal info had an icon or other visible distinction on the ad to cue users to expand for more info and check the data source for legitimacy. This probably requires folks to expand all ads to look for bad guys.
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Zarina Zabrisky
@ZarinaZabrisky
#Facebook & #Twitter are reported by the Russian state press to “report on their compliance with Russian regulations requiring companies to store Russian users’ data on servers located inside Russia. 👇🏼
“If they refused, both companies faced small fines of 5,000 rubles ($75), though Roskomnadzor was careful to point out that it has no current plans to block the social-media giants.“
(the same outlet later revealed that Twitter’s response actually notified Russian officials that the company’s representatives can’t visit Moscow in January.)
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Ryan Jones
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Apple pulled Apollo from the App Store for charging for Push Notifications saying: provides

"your IAP subscription product provides access to built-in Push Notification capabilities, which is not appropriate for the App Store”
2/ Warning, I’m pissed.

This is f’ing bullshit trash. The IAP is for server-side push, but *even if it wasn’t this is trash*.

Apple is policing guys like us for this ticky tap crap when everyone making sustainable money is using scam IAP's.
3/ You’re allowed to scam people out of $150 with $3/week trick IAP screens that’s only option are “Continue” or “Subscribe” with a tiny X for close in the corner.

But you can’t charge for server-side push. NO!
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Lukas Stefanko
@LukasStefanko
Android Legitimate Spyware with 10M+ installs.

App #Onavo owned by Facebook, is VPN service that collects your:
- mobile traffic
- location
- installed/opened apps
- visited websites

This app should hide your traffic & increase privacy, instead it collects it.
Visited web sites, launched & installed apps and others are stored in plaintext in database. Not accessible without root.
Based on their Privacy Policy, they have been gathering user's personal data since 2013.
If you ever used #Onavo app, your traffic is stored on Facebook servers probably forever.
They share same terms & conditions for different app versions.
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MUITOinteressante
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Facebook e Instagram mostrarão o tempo gasto no aplicativo! Quão viciado você acha que é?
Quão viciado você é no #Facebook e no #Instagram? Os dois aplicativos vão dizer quanto tempo você gasta neles todo dia. A funcionalidade foi anunciada em 1º de agosto e ficará disponível aos usuários nas próximas semanas.
Quantas horas você fica no Instagram por dia?
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Sarah Donaldson
@sarah_donaldson
#Facebook thread:
Ahead of Zuckerberg's Congress testimony, a quick revision guide.
All you need to know about Facebook (and why you should be concerned), brought to you by the Observer/Guardian's investigation into data and democracy...
Hard to believe it was less than a month ago that @carolecadwalla broke the story about GSR harvesting 50m+ Facebook profiles for @CamAnalytica to use in political campaigning:
Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica.. theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
Via the first major interview with @CamAnalytica whistleblower @chrisinsilico which explained Facebook had known about the leak for at least 18months and detailed Robert Mercer / Steve Bannon's central roles ‘I made Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
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Matthijs Pontier
@Matthijs85
Facebook has some really creepy plans!
Just check their patents!
Small thread with thanks to @jashkenas 👇

1⃣ Facebook wants to track your eye movements
using special infrared LEDs that shine into your pupil & cornea to determine gaze patents.google.com/patent/US20180… #Facebook #privacy
Facebook wants to reads your comments for positive or negative “affinity scores”
to generate sentiments and “trust scores”
and use the resulting data sets from trusted users
to train a machine learning model
patents.google.com/patent/US20180… | #privacy #facebook
to manipulate people..
3⃣ Facebook wants to “automatically sense, record and identify all types of activities such as walking, running, jogging, cycling, rowing, driving with car, bus, train, walking stairs, jumping, swimming, playing football & skiing” patents.google.com/patent/US20150… | #Facebook #privacy
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