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Facebook Accused of Conducting Mass Surveillance Through Its Apps (theguardian.com)
A court case in California alleges that Facebook used its apps to gather information about users and their friends, including some who had not signed up to the social network, reading their text messages, tracking their locations and accessing photos on their phones. The Guardian reports: The claims of what would amount to mass surveillance are part of a lawsuit brought against the company by the former startup Six4Three, listed in legal documents filed at the superior court in San Mateo as part of a court case that has been ongoing for more than two years. The allegations about surveillance appear in a January filing, the fifth amended complaint made by Six4Three. It alleges that Facebook used a range of methods, some adapted to the different phones that users carried, to collect information it could use for commercial purposes.
"Facebook continued to explore and implement ways to track users' location, to track and read their texts, to access and record their microphones on their phones, to track and monitor their usage of competitive apps on their phones, and to track and monitor their calls," one court document says. But all details about the mass surveillance scheme have been redacted on Facebook's request in Six4Three's most recent filings. Facebook claims these are confidential business matters. It has until next Tuesday to submit a claim to the court for the documents to remain sealed from public view.
"Facebook continued to explore and implement ways to track users' location, to track and read their texts, to access and record their microphones on their phones, to track and monitor their usage of competitive apps on their phones, and to track and monitor their calls," one court document says. But all details about the mass surveillance scheme have been redacted on Facebook's request in Six4Three's most recent filings. Facebook claims these are confidential business matters. It has until next Tuesday to submit a claim to the court for the documents to remain sealed from public view.
everyone is the product.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
their 'privacy policy' and use terms literally assure you that they do this.
Facebook: "So how R U doin', babe?"
Girl: ???
Six4Three: "He's a dawg. He just wants to f*** you and move on to the next girl."
Girl: !!!
Facebook: "Dude! I'm tryna' get laid here. Stop saying that so loud!"
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out in like, twenty or thirty years. Yawnnn...
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
They're being accused. Great. But nothing will be done about it and they'll carry on like it never happened. I wish I was more believing, but the skepticism has been drilled into me by years of nothing happening to them.
... and then people wonder why the EU passes a law to protect our privacy.
It is high time that this habit to gather private data of those big companies gets tightly restricted.
I'm sure, other countries around the world will follow.
I wouldn't be surprised if Face Book has a FSBook office, a PLAybook and a FaCIAL book, among many sovereign renters.
Sounds like the liberals are getting a taste of what they're peddling on everyone. At least the EU is more conservative and careful on the matter, for now..
Sounds like improper use of a computer to me. How many years jail is that?
That the country that not 30 years ago was praising itself for not having checkpoints at every county (seriously, that is what teachers were saying in the 1980s as part of their anti-Soviety schtick) or pervasive surveillance as in East Germany is now doing surveillance and checkpoints of the kind those two regimes had wet dreams of someday having available. And nobody seems to remember it well enough to question American conduct or the blatant hypocrisy of the change in direction the country has taken in the past 30 years.
I am not at all shocked by this. You create a free social service attracting millions and you have a gold mine for obtaining information on people. We are finally waking up to this.
Wow, 4chan retards complaining on /. about people being reddit. The irony.
show up to defend Facebag by going "JUST DONT USE IT BRO", and completely ignore the unambiguous "including some who had not signed up"
I'm waiting for the Lisp reich myself. Mind you anything would be better than the Algol reich so you just might be onto something.
There is no post about GDPR, but Slashdot now has popups regarding the privacy policy. When I click "I do not accept" nothing happens. Shouldn't that button redirect me away from the site or something. So far I've only given GDRP authorisation to my local library.
Uh, but of course.
America was reading telegrams since the 1920. Not a few, but the Whole Take.
Read Bamford about NSA.
Congratulations, Facebook users.You voted for this. Well done.
shocker
and home automation widgets like Alexa, google assistant et al don't listen and try to market to you either.
That's because you didn't actually say anything so there's nothing to refute. You have spewed forth useless drivel which is worth less than the bandwidth used to transmit the text. Please, stop using computers for the good of everyone. Really, I'm not joking. Stop. Forever.
(Facebook claims) these are confidential business matters.
My ass, sunshine on cockroaches and they scatter.
FB has the $ to buy off all the politicians and judges it needs to.
Ironic the very next slashdot article is:
"Is Cockroach Milk the Ultimate Superfood?"
But to their noodle brains it was, 'doing research', or, 'training our algos', the delusional creeps. The tech companies of the early 2000s will go down in history as 21st century rail barons and colonialists. Someday we will look back at their non-existence and shake our heads, hopefully sooner rather than later.
In the US, corporations, literally, have more rights than individuals do. That's just the way it is, and that's the way it will be until bribery of our politicians is made illegal. Until that happens, nothing will change.
I don't respond to AC's.
There is a clear point, you're just too stupid to understand.
If it's a payed service ... you are still the product. Your data is more valuable than the token amount you pay per month.
The chanverse is the only bit of the internet worthy of the name. You might feel entitled to it, but you're here only so long as your data is worth money to jews.
Once that is no longer the case, once the ad bubble pops, you're fucking gone.
Please explain why anyone is paying you to post here?
You've said only stupid shit or shit everyone here already knows.
And yet AHuxley's obvious falsism is upvoted to the max. Nice lack of self-awareness slashbot/redditard.
Is there even any of the old-guard left? They'd have been furious about all this surveillance crap.
As for "why is anyone is paying you to post here", that's actually a much deeper question than you can understand. Basically it's because the modern economy is so massively productive, that it's oversupplied thousands of times over, yet we haven't been able to decouple the "work day" from people's actual needs.
As a result of Smithsian division of labor there are millions of alienated young men sitting around doing jobs that have been subdivided to the point of pointlessness, and far below their ability. (In before lolbertarian, hurrr just start your own business bro).
I finished my useful work in one hour, but because of said factors out of my control, I have to sit here and shitpost for many more hours to collect my wage. What can be done about it.
ICWYDT
Algol wasn't that bad. I rather liked it. Of course, I also liked Forth... but Lisp was too expensive for me to more than try until I'd already started on C++... and I never really did get into it, though I've installed SBCL a couple of times.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"My wife and I took a random subject we had NEVER every talked about or searched online, and talked about it while her iPhone was on in the background. Two days later, our Facebook advertising completely changed over to cat food for a few days. -Neville"
Look, we could all see this coming.
The major difficulty is that, except for the EU (GDPR), UK, Scotland, and Canada, very few US states have privacy rights to any extent, but now that other countries are willing to enforce data protections for their citizens who may travel in, work in, or live in the US, everyone is having to get real about the devil's bargain FB presented.
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Look - a squirrel!
Look - its pedophile pastor peen!
You're really a big fan of the Reverend. Maybe you should write him a love poem.
> You're really a big fan of the Reverend. Maybe you should write him a love poem.
Hey, Pedo-Pastor why do you keep posting AC and talking in the 3rd person? You aren't fooling anyone.
The only problem with Algol is that we're not using it.
How does trump have anything to do with this story? By the way he is a better president than any of the other candidates. And much better that that never did anything Hussain obama