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Facebook Now Lets Android Users Block Background Collection of Location Data (betanews.com)
Facebook has rolled out an update to Android users that gives them a greater degree of control over the sharing of location data with the social network. From a report: Specifically, the update makes it possible to stop Facebook from using tracking your location in the background when you are not using the app. The change brings parity to the iOS and Android Facebook apps. In introducing the new finer-grained controls, Facebook insists that it is "not making any changes to the choices you've previously made nor are we collecting any new information."
We only want what's best for you.
If no, this is sabotage.
... their predictive models are good enough that they don't need as much detail to track at the same of better levels...
Check your premises.
then the problem is solved, on linux it is, i have not seen a good way to do it on android, but i think android and ms-windows should let users block entire domains and their associated domains, that would make a good tool for android and windows users
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This is the difference between open and closed source right here. In closed source, you need their permission for them to "allow" you to do things. With open source, you are free to add or remove what you want and when you want. Mostly open source doesn't bother adding in malfeatures because they know someone will just disable it and release a fork.
Closed source software is the leash they use to control you because that's all you are to them: cattle. Don't believe me? Has Microsoft allowed you to disable the telemetry yet?
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... if only I believed that Facebook are actually doing what they say...
I'm using Fb's web interface via the "Metal" app, which prevents having to use their app, and solves browser compatibility issues. I don't trust their app, for obvious reasons.
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How convenient. Zuckerberg is going to be sent to prison, at least he should be.
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Well, I'm not at all shocked and rushing to turn off the setting. Having your location tracked when not using the app - who doesn't expect that?
Facebook had a secret policy of collecting data. Now that it has been revealed, they claim not to have a secret policy for collecting data anymore.
O RLY
They think people are stupid, of course, and they might be right. They assume that people won't assume the obvious, being that FB has lots of channels for this activity and they simply disavow any channels that get outed, all the while creating more and increasingly elaborate versions of the same policies and practices. It's Darwinian; the methods that are vulnerable to detection get detected and "killed off", while those harder to detect simply go forward and multiply until the entire Internet ecosystem is filled with nothing but invisible, stealthy practices that nobody can detect. Forever.
No doubt they appreciate all our hard efforts to help them evolve their practices toward the perfect optimal. The perfect alpha predator, devouring everything that looks like information.
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You tempt me to stop browsing at -1.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
Article Summarized:
Creepy Facebook rolls out an update that adds no-op "privacy" controls intended to fool gullible users into falsely believing it is no longer spying on them 24/7.
You can disable Facebook all you want on your Android device, but I'll bet a lot of money that google already sells that same information to Facebook and everybody else with a few bucks.
That seems unlikely and while I don't think google are remotely trustworthy there's no evidence of that. If anything they're pretty tight lipped with that kind of data. Google are in the business of selling advertising, not in the business of selling data. Their data is what supposedly gives them their edge to sell ads better.
Selling the data would seem to undermine their business if anything.
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Facebook has repeatedly broken the rules, given away data specifically made private; sold to the highest bidder & or just the clever partner that could leech the data off them.
We, as a species need to disconnect from facebook.
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Great! How about letting me sort my news feed in chronological order (by date posted, and not date of last frigging comment)?
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There's a good reason why we haven't heard of a Cambridge Analytica style scandal involving Google yet - that's not how their business works. People on Slashdot love this idea Google is "selling" all your personal data, but actually they sell services to third parties that happen to be better than the competition because Google is able to use the data it has to make the work well.
There's a world of difference between the two, and in privacy terms they're more or less opposites: if your secret sauce is knowing that DogDude looks at a lot of goat porn and so will be a great person to target ads for industrial sized goat dildos, it isn't going to help you if you pass this secret information on to someone else so everyone who runs an advertising company can also use that information to run an ad service that's just as good as Google's.
Facebook works differently, they do run an advertising business but it's never going to be as successful as Google's, so they look for other ways to monetize the data they harvest about you. Part of that is because the data they harvest is different - Google is interested in your interests, Facebook from day one was interested in who you're associated with. It's harder for Facebook to draw conclusions on its own from that data (hence Facebook also doing what it can to find ways to get your interests), so it benefits them to sell the data to third parties.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Your not alone in your opinion.
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