Everyone who thinks they're getting such a great deal buying Samsung, Oppo, Huawei, Xiaomi, and other android phones just found out how those companies can afford to sell flagship phones with huge discounts or for such low prices.
Fair point, and it’s hard to say. They are taking money to, in effect, spy on their friends and family (if my assumptions are accurate)My guess is that yes that can happen. But it's not clear who violated your privacy. The person you were communicating with gave the data to someone else (a business), who is looking at it with their permission. The person you were talking to could just as well have taken a screenshot and posted it online, or printed your email and taped it to pole in the public square. Is the person or the business guilty?
Lots of companies, including small businesses, exploit enterprise certificates... And why is that? Because AppStore rules are annoyingly restrictive..
Just think: these are the only ones we’ve caught so far. Wonder how many other companies out there, with names not quite so big as FB and Google, who are busily gathering our data using their “free” apps.
I am with you. I don't use FB and I minimize my use of Google as much as I can (DuckDuckGo is a great search engine alternative and there are several good VPNs out there including NordVPN). I also use "Delete Me" from Abine.com to continually purge my personal data from data aggregator websites like Intelius, Spokeo, PeopleFinder, etc. etc. Google & FB and the countless, faceless data aggregators are still going to find ways to build dossiers on all of us but we don't have to make it easy on them.Realistically, I know that it's impossible for me to do anything on the internet and not somehow interact with these companies, but the last few months (years?) have had me really questioning if I should go out of my way to avoid certain players as much as possible.
I got rid of Facebook a year ago and try not to be the "hey, I got rid of Facebook" person, but if it does come up, there's still people who seem shocked (as though I'm living without electricity or something like that). I never got locked into Gmail, but there's a few other Google services that I've been winding down over the years (the Hangouts changes have led me to move away from Google Voice and eventually think about deleting my account).
Recently, I watched Valley of the Boom on National Geographic Channel and it was a good look at a few of the '90s tech companies (really just a trip down memory lane) and it struck me that "evil" Microsoft of that era tended to be ruthless, but played much cleaner than some of companies today.
No company is perfect (certainly not Apple), but I feel like there's a point where one can opt-out of certain products/companies even if they're popular.
It wouldn't be okay with me. I'd be mad at the friend and at the company. But I don't know if I have any legal recourse in such a case.Let me ask this: If Facebook or Google paid a friend to secretly record phone conversations with you and provide them with those recordings, all without your knowledge and consent, would that be okay?
Do you REALLY need to ask that?Of course it does.
It’s time Apple was made to allow unsigned apps to run on iOS, only approved and signed apps on the ApoStore, users have the right to install what software they wish on there devices, on macOS one can go threw the macStore or via third part from a website
iOS needs to be just like this.
Apple didn’t put out this story.Apple PR getting hammered by the Facetime bug so what do you do? You put out stories about how everyone else is bad, too!
Live by the sword (security), die by the sword. With Google they know I buy used clothes on TheRealReal.
[doublepost=1548908454][/doublepost]Who do you think is contributing millions to these law makers campaigns?Its time for lawmakers to put an end to this. We have to be protected from these data stealing corporations.
Additionally, people who install these kinds of apps for rewards may not fully understand the extent of the data that's collected.![]()
Google Also Exploiting Enterprise Certificates to Bypass iOS App Store for Data Collection
Everyone who thinks they're getting such a great deal buying Samsung, Oppo, Huawei, Xiaomi, and other android phones just found out how those companies can afford to sell flagship phones with huge discounts or for such low prices.
No, frankly I don't. I could not care less.Facebooks app installed a root SSL certificate giving them access to all encrypted network traffic on your device, all of it! Still don't see the problem?
Difference with Facebook:
Google pays Apple so Apple uses Google Search on the iOS platform.
This will be interesting.
This combined with deciding that corporations are to be treated as separate entities with human-like rights, and then pretending that this faceless corporate entity is responsible for any bad things that happen, and not the head of the company or the board of directors. When the board of director's primary directive is to make more money, and it's the faceless corporate entity that takes the hit for bad behavior - so no consequences for the actual humans making the decisions, the corporate entity often tends towards rather sociopathic behavior.
I am with you. I don't use FB and I minimize my use of Google as much as I can (DuckDuckGo is a great search engine alternative and there are several good VPNs out there including NordVPN). I also use "Delete Me" from Abine.com to continually purge my personal data from data aggregator websites like Intelius, Spokeo, PeopleFinder, etc. etc. Google & FB and the countless, faceless data aggregators are still going to find ways to build dossiers on all of us but we don't have to make it easy on them.
I am with you. I don't use FB and I minimize my use of Google as much as I can (DuckDuckGo is a great search engine alternative and there are several good VPNs out there including NordVPN). I also use "Delete Me" from Abine.com to continually purge my personal data from data aggregator websites like Intelius, Spokeo, PeopleFinder, etc. etc. Google & FB and the countless, faceless data aggregators are still going to find ways to build dossiers on all of us but we don't have to make it easy on them.
I don’t trust other VPN providers because I don’t know who or where or what they are.
They don't sell at huge discounts. They make a fifth of the profit that Apple makes per device.Everyone who thinks they're getting such a great deal buying Samsung, Oppo, Huawei, Xiaomi, and other android phones just found out how those companies can afford to sell flagship phones with huge discounts or for such low prices.