This Facebook-has-read-your-texts-and-seen-your-phone-calls-on-Android thing is so much worse than anything I could have imagined they were up to and I imagined they were up to quite a bit tbqh.
The proof of their utter overcollection of user data is that they didn't even bother to try to remove it from the user data profile downloads.
They saw nothing wrong in this. Saw this as something people want.
They truly believe people want Facebook reading intimate texts.
They saw nothing wrong in this. Saw this as something people want.
They truly believe people want Facebook reading intimate texts.
Try to imagine the process of specification, coding, testing, and deployment - all of which were party to this implementation. It would have taken months and involved at least hundreds of individuals.
And no one saw this as wrong, or in any way questionable.
And no one saw this as wrong, or in any way questionable.
"Hi, in our meeting today we're going to develop a schedule toward a new product feature - reading and uploading all of our users' text messages."
Imagine being an engineer in that room. And wondering how your karma landed you there.
Imagine being an engineer in that room. And wondering how your karma landed you there.
For this act alone, Zuckerberg needs to be removed from command, as does Sandberg. The board probably needs to be replaced as well.
And the corporation as a whole needs to down tools until they have a complete education in ethics in the digital era.
And the corporation as a whole needs to down tools until they have a complete education in ethics in the digital era.
One thing I'm sure of: there's worse to come.
Facebook has stolen most of the data it has collected - simply because there was no way to stop it.
Still people say, "Oh but I can't leave Facebook."
Yet I am profiled just by being on your contact list. I didn't ask for that.
Facebook has stolen most of the data it has collected - simply because there was no way to stop it.
Still people say, "Oh but I can't leave Facebook."
Yet I am profiled just by being on your contact list. I didn't ask for that.
Facebook has metadata (and possibly message content, idk) for every text message sent to me by every Android user of its app until October 2017. And every one I sent them.
I didn't ask to have my private conversations recorded.
So your choices have consequences - for me.
I didn't ask to have my private conversations recorded.
So your choices have consequences - for me.
That's all I have to say now.
I'll leave you with this: Google let this happen. Android permissions allowed Facebook to do this. This is as much on Google as on FB. Sure they closed the hole. But far too late -- and not for their apps. Only 3rd party. Ponder that.
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I'll leave you with this: Google let this happen. Android permissions allowed Facebook to do this. This is as much on Google as on FB. Sure they closed the hole. But far too late -- and not for their apps. Only 3rd party. Ponder that.
#fin
PS - Every lawyer now knows that they can subpoena Facebook profile data to get a record of messages.
Divorce lawyers will find that... quite useful.
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Divorce lawyers will find that... quite useful.
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