I'm no Apple fanboi but it distresses me a little that there are people out there that are equating #tracebook's conscious decision to behave badly with Apple letting a bug slip through.
For those in the cheap seats, Apple will fix the bug. Facebook can't fix their culture.
So somebody finally figured out what most of us in tech already knew.
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed i…
I’m no fan of buzzfeed but ... dang.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/literally-just-a-big-list-of-facebooks-2018-scandals
Facebook Portal’s claims to protect user privacy are falling apart - The Verge
Mark Zuckerberg looks glum during Congress grilling. Facebook's latest security blunder is mind-blowingly serious, and it would not be unjust for the company to have many billions wiped off its value. Losing up to 50 million people's personal information is bad enough, but also risking people's accounts with sites like Tinder, Airbnb, or Spotify was an outrageous error. Like other tech giants, Facebook decided a while ago that having all your social media information wasn't enough - it wanted to