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Never use Facebook! Call your congress person and ask them to enact legislation to stop companies from tracking people unless they opt in to it.
lol your congress person cares only for lining their pockets with your tax money. you congresscritter is the reason big corps and big data do what they do. you have been sold to the Lowest Bodder lol
 
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Facebook is evil squared. Its bad enough they make this data harvesting software but then they outsource to other companies to get people to install it so they can keep some distance from it. I hope Apple revokes all Facebook certificates and makes an example out of them so other companies won't pull this type of stunt again.
 
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Delete Facebook. There's a better way to stay in touch with friends and family... it's called email.
 
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Delete Facebook. There's a better way to stay in touch with friends and family... it's called email.
Most people don't really want to get "spammed" by various things someone else wants to share and/or comment on.
 
There is an infinite supply of stupid/gullible people out there and so long as that is the case there will always be companies like facebook fleecing you. This will never change unless meaningful penalties for the filthy rich are administered e.g. I've heard CEOs of big (corrupt) organizations in China have actually been executed. I'll bet that'd change behaviors (forgetting for the moment about the disastrous loss of personal freedom that comes with that sort of thing).
 
You're over-estimating how difficult it is to generate garbage data. For younger people, this is alright pocket change. Should be a case of cheap beer; a boon for college students.

If that's the case I will quit drinking while I drive for Uber.
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Never use Facebook! Call your congress person and ask them to enact legislation to stop companies from tracking people unless they opt in to it.

Haust meet EULA.
 
facebook should be paying me $20/month to use Facebook at all for the amount of $$$ they made off of my data.

They were making an average of $26.76 per quarter (assuming you are in the US or Canada)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average-revenue-per-user-by-region/
Of course, that probably includes users that never log on, so the average revenue per active user is probably a lot higher and increases with activity.

Wow, when will people realize how truly evil Facebook really is.

Perhaps never. I am sad to report most people I know of do NOT regard them as evil and do not even follow the news to know what is going on.

Regardless, FB has enough cash, that if used correctly with the right PR firms, media firms, and politicians, can make people start thinking of them as some sort of a savior for mankind.

Anyway I try to educate people by sending them this:
https://www.businessinsider.com/wel...s-wont-help-facebooks-privacy-problems-2010-5
 
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It is somewhat refreshing to hear that some people are actually being paid. This is the first step for FB to acknowledge individual ownership of ones own data. The next step for FB IMO LOL would be to allow users a button that deletes all content. I think later on users will get wiser and FB will be looked back upon as a run away horror. The Napster of the 00"s.
 
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The most disturbing thing about this story is the single mindedness with which fb pursues data harvesting. One has to assume they put similar effort into every app and relationship they possess. Unfortunately nothing will change unless privacy legislation keeps up with the evolution of surveillance technolgy.
 
No it's dead, at least Apple tries unlike Google and Facebook(the worst one) who data mine you. This artcile shows that Facebook did not learn from its mistake. The facetime bug is going to be fixed in a week(pretty fast by industry standards), while google knew of the google+ bug for years before shutting it down.

Iphone is not all secure, but is the most secure OS.

The one thing that bothered me about the advertising billboard thing that stated "what happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone" is that that isn't really true. True for apple related services and apps, but not third party apps. And who doesn't use third party apps on the iPhone. I'm not 100% clear about what data is collected by app developers but I hope Apple makes it mandatory to collect all data in a non personal identifying way.
 
Facebook is garbage.

Agreed.

However try telling that to the 12 year olds and social media wannabes...

At least it does have a permanent delete function these days, something they didn’t have for a decade. Now when you deactivate you have an option for your account and all your data to be deleted.
You still have to wait for 30 days to it to happen, but it’s there... and I did that months ago
 
Agreed.

However try telling that to the 12 year olds and social media wannabes...

At least it does have a permanent delete function these days, something they didn’t have for a decade. Now when you deactivate you have an option for your account and all your data to be deleted.
You still have to wait for 30 days to it to happen, but it’s there... and I did that months ago
More like try telling that to the the 52 year olds. Most millennials I know don't use Facebook.
 
Privacy is dead on iPhone

Far from it. iPhone is the only device where you can still get some privacy.
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I know what Apple will do here. Nothing!

And why exactly would they? This is done with the free will of people. Why would Apple stop you if your private data means nothing to you and you want to sell it for $20?
 



Apple in August 2018 forced Facebook to remove its Onavo VPN app from the App Store, because Facebook was using it to track user activity and data across multiple apps, something that violate's Apple's App Store policies.

As it turns out, Facebook has found an underhanded way to skirt Apple's rules and get people to continue installing its VPN -- paying them.

Article Link: Facebook Paying Teens $20/Month to Install Data Harvesting VPN App on iPhones

The issue here is not that those affected are being paid. The issue is the lack of informed consent. There is no way that the explanation provided allows users to understand what is being done, or its implications. Presumably also it is not just the user whose privacy is being compromised - surely any communications they receive, to the channels that are being spied on, will share details of any others who exchange messages or information with the affected user, thus compromising privacy and security on a much wider basis than simply the naive users themselves.

There ought to be a way of letting other users know that someone has been "infected" by one of these FaceBook spy tools, so that anyone communicating with them, or receiving communications from them, can be aware that they are infected.
 
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Whilst I gather the T's & C's are up front using input from age 13 is wrong, but masquerading as another company nobody can complain about. Any organisation that has shell companies does that. Any company that owns another but uses separate names is using a degree of separation also and that is for their own good, not yours.
 
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Far from it. iPhone is the only device where you can still get some privacy.
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And why exactly would they? This is done with the free will of people. Why would Apple stop you if your private data means nothing to you and you want to sell it for $20?
Have you considered that the infected users will also, by proxy, may also leaking private information from other users in communication with them? Incoming messages and outgoing replies from infected users will reveal all sorts of information on others who would presumably not be aware that the security of their communications is being compromised in this way.
 
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Have you considered that the infected users will also, by proxy, may also leaking private information from other users in communication with them? Incoming messages and outgoing replies from infected users will reveal all sorts of information on others who would presumably not be aware that the security of their communications is being compromised in this way.

I think you are just getting far too deep in this.
Just enjoy life a little, rather than being paranoid about everything.
 
I think you are just getting far too deep in this.
Just enjoy life a little, rather than being paranoid about everything.
I respect your opinion. Here's mine, as neatly expressed by Edmund Burke:

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."


I guess you get the point.
 
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