Soldato
What's the saying; if the product is free, you are the product?The irony of the #deletefacebook trending is that of course twitter is harvesting data too, they all are. Where do people think these free services get their money from?
What's the saying; if the product is free, you are the product?The irony of the #deletefacebook trending is that of course twitter is harvesting data too, they all are. Where do people think these free services get their money from?
even though you're not gullable - cuddly facebook may have influenced a brexit or USA election vote, confirming someones prejudices/paranoia. ?I don't care about the adverts
Conduct an in-depth review of our platform: We will investigate all apps that had access to large amounts of information before we changed our platform in 2014 to reduce data access, and we are conducting a full audit of any app with suspicious activity.
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Reward people who find vulnerabilities: Facebook’s bug bounty program will expand so that people can also report to us if they find misuses of data by app developers. We are beginning work on this and will have more details as we finalize the program updates in the coming weeks.
The social network acknowledged on Sunday that it began uploading call and text logs from phones running Google's Android system in 2015 — first via its Messenger app and later through an option in Facebook Lite, a stripped-down version of its main app. Facebook added that only users who gave appropriate permission were affected, that it didn't collect the contents of messages or calls, and that users can opt out of the data collection and have the stored logs deleted by changing their app settings.
which you give them permission to do.appropriated by other apps is documented.
Two weeks ago we promised to take a hard look at the information apps can use when you connect them to Facebook as well as other data practices
.... they imply they have taken that hard look really ? resolving all the issues - lol
Events API: Until today, people could grant an app permission to get information about events they host or attend, including private events. This made it easy to add Facebook Events to calendar, ticketing or other apps. But Facebook Events have information about other people’s attendance as well as posts on the event wall, so it’s important that we ensure apps use their access appropriately. Starting today, apps using the API will no longer be able to access the guest list or posts on the event wall.
so are you going to expose these apps ?
Groups API: Currently apps need the permission of a group admin or member to access group content for closed groups, and the permission of an admin for secret groups. These apps help admins do things like easily post and respond to content in their groups. However, there is information about people and conversations in groups that we want to make sure is better protected. Going forward, all third-party apps using the Groups API will need approval from Facebook
again what are these apps ?
Although I do agree there should be stronger laws, I can't see laws ever catching up and overtaking data gathering. People need to have a bit of self responsibility and there should be some training/adverts or something.57million (or so) people+their friends were taken in though, and they have the right to vote, so we need to protect themourselves
it would be interesting to know the demographic of the people who did the quiz.
Anyone else watching Zuckerberg getting grilled by a bunch of old reptiles?
https://news.sky.com/watch-live