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Facebook accused of striking “secret deals over user data”

Surprise, surprise. Facebook up to more shady ****.
 
We’ve gotten to the stage where these companies have become the de facto town squares of the world. I don’t like the idea of regulations, but at the same time no company should be able to have this level of control over so many people.
 
jmc said:
We’ve gotten to the stage where these companies have become the de facto town squares of the world. I don’t like the idea of regulations, but at the same time no company should be able to have this level of control over so many people.
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The trouble is that it’s becoming harder and harder to distinguish the wheat from the chaff so to speak, the false from the true.
Which I think has the potential to make it a dangerous “town square”

The above coupled with Facebooks aggressive and protectionist way of doing business, to my mind, makes it vital that they and Zuckerberg especially are held to account for their actions. With legislation created and put into place so that they and other equally powerful institutions cannot do as they please with the data they collect from us.
 
RetrogradeOrbit said:
The trouble is that it’s becoming harder and harder to distinguish the wheat from the chaff so to speak, the false from the true.
Which I think has the potential to make it a dangerous “town square”

The above coupled with Facebooks aggressive and protectionist way of doing business, to my mind, makes it vital that they and Zuckerberg especially are held to account for their actions. With legislation created and put into place so that they and other equally powerful institutions cannot do as they please with the data they collect from us.
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What's we've come to learn is that open dialog and freedom of speech is now at the mercy of billionaires and corporations whose own ideologies and business interests clash with those concepts. It's going to get worse. Patreon for example is cracking down on people who say controversial things outside of their platform, despite their terms of services clearly saying they will only punish people who post inappropriate things on their website. So, we've got a very troubling situation where any marks we leave online can be used against us by any number of tech companies for any number of reasons, all of whom have the power to alter their terms of service at the drop of a hat, all of which can be weaponised by any person of ill repute. I don't know what the answer is. The laws that are in place don't take into account where the technological sphere has taken society and conversation, and something needs to be done about. At present money and bad publicity is determining what decisions are getting made. As cancerous as Tumblr is them cracking down on adult content out of fear of backlash about that type of content is going to make countless creative people lose money, not to mention themselves due to the number of people who walk away from the platform. There either needs to be some type of tech revolt with new companies emerging who will allow their users to partake in the conversations and expression they wish, or the existing companies need to sit down together and work out some type of internet constitution they all agree to follow that removes the clash between business and freedom of expression.
 
Facebook is apologizing again... for their incomptence and spilling private user data.

Another day, another privacy issue with Facebook.

The company announced Friday morning that a photo API bug might have resulted in millions of people having their private photos become improperly accessible by up to 1,500 apps for a period of 12 days in September 2018.

As Facebook described it in a blog post by Tomer Bar, a company staffer:

When someone gives permission for an app to access their photos on Facebook, we usually only grant the app access to photos people share on their timeline. In this case, this may have affected up to 6.8 million users and up to 1,500 apps. The bug also impacted photos that people uploaded to Facebook but chose not to post. For example, if someone uploads a photo to Facebook but doesn't finish posting it—maybe because they've lost reception or walked into a meeting—we store a copy of that photo so the person has it when they come back to the app to complete their post.
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The online blog post noted that up to 6.8 million people may have been affected. This latest snafu comes after a September 2018 incident where the company announced that 50 million accounts may have been affected in an unrelated attack.

"We're sorry this happened," Bar concluded.
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Ars Technica
 
If ever there was a new Facebook competitor to come out. It would probably be around now and call themselves "Respect our privacy. Share our lives. Stitch. Social Media for Tailors." :p
 
Facebook is about as secure with private information as publically posting your personal information on the front page of every newspaper in the country. Sure not a lot of people read newspapers anymore but anyone who bothers to would see it.
 
I hope they face proper punishment for this. They have been far too irresponsible with private data.
 
Facebook won't suffer any consequences until it does something to a politician personally they don't like.
 
The only way Facebook will face any form of retribution is if users leave them in droves...
 
It makes a better case for Apple and people getting iPhones. If MS were still in the mobile game, I wouldn't be surprised if they used privacy as a selling point.
 
Well, I've disabled Farcebook on my Samsung S8. Had to do it that way because it is not possible to delete it!
So, I guess that will stop those pesky Android apps being able to send data to FarceBook... :D
 
Really? I thought people said they were deleting their accounts.
 
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