Facebook, are you kidding?

Azure Phoenix · Nov 14, 2018

zapjb said: ↑

Would it be a wonderful world if everybody who uses fb, twit, insta etc. etc. just disappeared?
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It's fine if you guys don't like those kind of social media. But please don't speak ill of people just because they use them.

ronjor · Nov 20, 2018

Is Facebook Out of Control? Investigations and Complaints Are Rising

By Kevin Townsend on November 20, 2018
Last week's report in The New York Times (NYT), titled 'Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook's Leaders Fought Through Crisis', has again focused attention on Facebook. "Ms. Sandberg [Facebook COO]," writes the NYT, "has overseen an aggressive lobbying campaign to combat Facebook's critics, shift public anger toward rival companies and ward off damaging regulation."
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ronjor · Dec 7, 2018

Facebook fined $11.4M in Italy over data misuse

by Katie Collins December 7, 2018
After a year of woe, the social network's data-related troubles aren't yet over.
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ronjor · Dec 13, 2018

Facebook wants you to buy HBO on Facebook and watch HBO on Facebook

By Peter Kafka Dec 13, 2018
The world’s biggest social network wants to get into the pay TV business — by taking a page from Amazon.
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ronjor · Dec 17, 2018

Facebook still hasn’t launched a big privacy feature that Mark Zuckerberg promised more than seven months ago

By Kurt Wagner Dec 17, 2018
Back in May, at the height of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, the company made a timely announcement: Facebook users would soon be able to clear the browsing history connected to their Facebook profile, meaning that the company would no longer link users to the apps and websites they visited off of the social network.
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ronjor · Dec 19, 2018

Facebook doesn’t care about you

By Cale Guthrie Weissman 12.19.18
Last week, during an interview, Facebook’s VP of marketing solutions, Carolyn Everson, explained to a reporter, “We care deeply, as deep as a company can care about privacy. It’s the foundation of our company, and we want people to know that we care.” A few days later the company copped to a bug that gave app developers access to private user photos, which raised quite a few eyebrows. Late last night, the New York Times dropped a bombshell of a story describing just how false Everson’s statement is.
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ronjor · Dec 19, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg has been talking and apologizing about privacy since 2003 — here's a reminder of what he's said

Sara Salinas Anita Balakrishnan 19 Dec 2018
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said a lot about privacy this year.
He's had to, as the company faced data breaches, privacy scandals and the launch of a new in- home video calling device.
Though the frequency of the CEO's statements has picked up in recent months, Zuckerberg's been talking about privacy for years.
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Stefan Froberg · Dec 19, 2018

Facebook doesn’t care about you
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Hah! That's not news. After all, whoring user data is how it makes it's money.
But neither do the so called "friends" care about you either
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https://uk.pcmag.com/social-networking/74700/sorry-but-your-facebook-friends-dont-care-about-you

mood · Dec 29, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg is ‘proud’ of how Facebook handled its scandals this year
December 28, 2018
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/28/mark-zuckerberg-tonedeaf-end-of-year-remarks/

After the year Mark Zuckerberg’s had, you’d think he’d struggle to appear so chipper.

“I’m proud of the progress we’ve made,” he said in an end-of-year note posted on his Facebook page for everyone to see.
Zuckerberg’s tone-deaf remarks read like 1,000 words of patting himself on the back.
Facebook lost its chief security officer this year — and hasn’t found a replacement
Zuckerberg said that the company invests “billions of dollars in security yearly.” That may be true. But without an executive overseeing that budget, it’s not confidence-inducing knowing that there’s nobody with the years of experience needed to oversee a company’s security posture in control of where those billions go.

In his 1,000-word post, Zuckerberg said he was “proud” three times, he talked of the company’s “focus” four times and how much “progress” was being made five times. But there wasn’t a single “sorry” to be seen.
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[...] adding: “Here’s to a great new year to come.”

Well, it can’t be much worse than this year. Or can it?
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mood · Jan 17, 2019

Facebook employees caught leaving five-star Amazon reviews for Portal
January 17, 2019
https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/17/facebook-portal-amazon-reviews-employees/

Still, Facebook does have some happy customers, judging by Portal's five-star reviews on Amazon. Or at least it seems that way until you take a closer look, and see that some of them were apparently left by Facebook employees.
New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose spotted that several reviewers' names matched Facebook employees' monikers. The reviews were all marked as Amazon Verified, meaning the reviewers had actually bought the devices from Amazon.

Whatever the case, leaving reviews for your employer's products is against Amazon's rules. Andrew Bosworth, Facebook's vice president of augmented reality and virtual reality, seemed to confirm the reviews were from employees, and said the company would ask the workers to remove them.
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Circuit · Jan 17, 2019

What is facebook?
What is a Zuck?

deBoetie · Jan 18, 2019

Facebook invests "billions of dollars in security yearly". Suppose $1bn of that is on headcount, and each person gets $100k. That's 10,000 people employed in security. I don't think so. End of 2017, their total employee count was 25k.

mood · Jan 25, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg wrote 1,000 words defending Facebook, but the most interesting thing about it was where he published it
January 25, 2019
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/...al-column-defending-facebook-2019-1?r=US&IR=T

In a column published Thursday, the 34-year-old billionaire technology executive laid out what he says are the “facts about Facebook,” explaining “the principles of how we operate” and the alleged “clear benefits” of Facebook’s ad-supported, data-hungry business model for users and businesses.

Zuckerberg’s choice of the Wall Street Journal marks a departure from his standard practice of speaking to users directly through his personal Facebook page [...] It’s hardly the most effective medium for getting out a message to the general public – it’s behind an expensive paywall [...]
Zuckerberg says he wants to correct some misunderstandings
The column dismisses what Zuckerberg says are number of misunderstandings about how Facebook operates. “We don’t sell people’s data, even though it’s often reported that we do,” he wrote.
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ronjor · Jan 27, 2019

Facebook is lovely but misunderstood, says lovely but misunderstood Facebook founder

Alan Martin @alan_p_martin 25 January 2019
Putting the 'offensive' in 'charm offensive'
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ronjor · Jan 27, 2019

The facts about Facebook

Natasha Lomas @riptari 25 Jan 2019
Zuckerberg wants to redefine “transparency, choice and control” -- let's not give him consent
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ronjor · Jan 28, 2019

Try not to laugh -- for Data Privacy Day, Facebook wants you to take a Privacy Checkup

By Mark Wycislik-Wilson 28 Jan 2019
With today being Data Privacy Day, Facebook is trying -- apparently without a faintest hint of irony -- to jump on the bandwagon. Starting today, the company is launching a new Privacy and Data Use Business Hub, as well as inviting users to take a Privacy Checkup.
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ronjor · Jan 29, 2019

Facebook Moves to Block Ad Transparency Tools — Including Ours

by Jeremy B. Merrill, special to ProPublica, and Ariana Tobin Jan. 28
Our tool had let the public see exactly how users were being targeted by advertisers. The social media giant urged us to shut it down last year.
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mood · Jan 29, 2019

Facebook got caught paying people $20 a month to let them spy on their phones
January 29, 2019
https://www.businessinsider.de/facebook-research-pays-people-spy-phones-data-2019-1

The Silicon Valley social networking giant has been paying teens and adults up to $20 a month to spy on their phones, their data, and the apps they use, according to a new report from TechCrunch —raising fresh concerns over the company's approach to user privacy.

The tech news site found that Facebook operates a program called "Project Titan," in which it recruits willing Apple iOS and Android users to give them root access to their devices, thereby allowing Facebook to view extensive data on participants' mobile activity.

The app, Facebook Research, appears to be largely similar to Facebook's controversial VPN app Onavo, and shares much of the same code, according to security expert Will Strafach, who was asked to investigate by TechCrunch.
Facebook's rationale for the program appears to be to learn more about the apps that people use, in a similar vein to how it has used data gleaned from Onavo to harvest valuable data about how people use their phones.
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mood · Jan 30, 2019

mood said: ↑

Facebook got caught paying people $20 a month to let them spy on their phones
January 29, 2019
https://www.businessinsider.de/facebook-research-pays-people-spy-phones-data-2019-1
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Facebook will shut down its controversial market research app for iOS
Facebook Research paid users $20 gift cards for near total access to data on their phones
January 30, 2019
https://www.theverge.com/facebook/2019/1/30/18203349/facebook-research-app-apple-shutdown

The company said early Wednesday evening that the Facebook Research app, which offers volunteers between the ages of 13 and 35 monthly $20 gift cards in exchange for near-total access to the data on their phones, would no longer be available on iOS. It will apparently continue to be available for Android users.

The Research app requires that users install a custom root certificate, giving Facebook the ability to see users’ private messages, emails, web searches, and browsing activity. That’s in apparent violation of Apple’s system-level functionality, which is intended to grant employers access to employees’ work devices
The company also denied that Facebook Research was intended to replace Onavo, although it did not respond to evidence that the apps shared similar code.
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ronjor · Jan 30, 2019

Facebook’s internal iOS apps simply don’t launch anymore

By Tom Warren and Jacob Kastrenakes Jan 30, 2019
Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps, from early releases of the Facebook app to basic tools like a lunch menu. A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and other pre-release “dogfood” (beta) apps have stopped working, as have other employee apps, like one for transportation. Facebook is treating this as a critical problem internally, we’re told, as the affected apps simply don’t launch on employees’ phones anymore.
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zapjb · Jan 30, 2019

Internally apple & the 3letters call this a feature not a bug.

stapp · Jan 30, 2019

Apparently Google has been doing this since 2012.

It looks like Facebook is not the only one abusing Apple’s system for distributing employee-only apps to sidestep the App Store and collect extensive data on users. Google has been running an app called Screenwise Meter, which bears a strong resemblance to the app distributed by Facebook Research that has now been barred by Apple, TechCrunch has learned.
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https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/g...lector-through-apples-back-door/?guccounter=1

ronjor · Jan 30, 2019

Does Facebook Really Know How Many Fake Accounts It Has?

By Jack Nicas Jan. 30, 2019
The social network has disclosed an estimate for years, but a closer look raises lots of questions.
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ronjor · Jan 30, 2019

Senator Warner calls on Zuckerberg to support market research consent rules

Josh Constine @JoshConstine 30 Jan 2019
In response to TechCrunch’s investigation of Facebook paying teens and adults to install a VPN that lets it analyze all their phone’s traffic, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg. It admonishes Facebook for not spelling out exactly what data the Facebook Research app was collecting or giving users adequate information necessary to determine if they should accept payment in exchange for selling their privacy. Following our report, Apple banned Facebook’s Research app from iOS and shut down its internal employee-only workplace apps too as punishment, causing mayhem in Facebook’s office.
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ronjor · Jan 31, 2019

Apple’s power over Facebook ought to worry the rest of us

By Casey Newton@CaseyNewton Jan 31, 2019
Social networks aren’t the only big platforms that need scrutiny
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