Posted on Dec 10, 2018
Seized emails show Facebook used VPN app to spy on public and monetize stolen data | The...
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Why having FB and an Android phone are not a good thing....
"In 2015, the company began “continuously uploading” call and text logs from Android phones, giving it a valuable window into the communications habits of its users. The company knew it was “a pretty high-risk thing to do from a PR perspective”, and discussed ways to do it without requiring users to actively opt in. One staff member warned that the change could result in “enterprising journalists … writing stories about ‘Facebook uses new Android update to pry into your private life in ever more terrifying ways – reading your call logs, tracking you in businesses with beacons, etc.’”"
"In 2015, the company began “continuously uploading” call and text logs from Android phones, giving it a valuable window into the communications habits of its users. The company knew it was “a pretty high-risk thing to do from a PR perspective”, and discussed ways to do it without requiring users to actively opt in. One staff member warned that the change could result in “enterprising journalists … writing stories about ‘Facebook uses new Android update to pry into your private life in ever more terrifying ways – reading your call logs, tracking you in businesses with beacons, etc.’”"
Seized emails show Facebook used VPN app to spy on public and monetize stolen data | The...
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Edited 6 y ago
Posted 6 y ago
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In defense of Facebook. You get something free and think it is free. No one gives a free lunch. No one gives free programs. Nothing is free in life. Quit being surprised.
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LTC Eric Udouj
They were surprised all right- they still do not know how much was leaked to the Parliament in this of things FB never dreamed would find the light of day. Nothing is free - but when you target people and think nothing of it because you are a monopoly - it is all the more that the wall is closer than you think when you run into it. :)
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SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint
LTC Eric Udouj - I get free services on the internet... "Why can I not get free housing and free food?" I can see that being a future question.
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SGT (Join to see)
The general idea of why services are free is that the site is making money from advertising revenue and that the audience for that revenue is brought in by user-created content. That personal information is being mined and is sold is another altogether. We can look at terms of service and privacy policies, but for many sites that tends to be a gigantic wall of lawyerese mumbo-jumbo that nobody reads and fewer people understand.
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SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint
SGT (Join to see) - I hope you read your military contract....but then did it matter since there you did not read "IAW UCMJ". How many 17-18 year olds knew what IAW or UCMJ was at the time we signed that contract?
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