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posted by mrpg on Friday February 08 2019, @04:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the superfriend dept.

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Facebook Says It Needs to Collect All Your Data to Protect Against Terrorism and Child Abuse

[...] From Facebook's statement this morning (emphasis ours):

Facebook has always been about connecting you with people and information you're interested in. We tailor each person's Facebook experience so it's unique to you, and we use a variety of information to do this – including the information you include on your profile, news stories you like or share and what other services share with us about your use of their websites and apps. Using information across our services also helps us protect people's safety and security, including, for example, identifying abusive behavior and disabling accounts tied to terrorism, child exploitation and election interference across both Facebook and Instagram.

By the end of Facebook's statement the company leans heavily into the claim that everybody else is doing it, so why can't they—which may be the most terrifying point.

"Every day, people interact with companies that connect and use data in similar ways. And all of this should be–and is–a legitimate area of focus for regulators and policymakers around the world. Yet the Bundeskartellamt is trying to implement an unconventional standard for a single company," Facebook said.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by RS3 on Friday February 08 2019, @07:26PM

    by RS3 (6367) on Friday February 08 2019, @07:26PM (#798493)

    Being that Android is a google product, it kind of follows that google stuff is going to do what it wants to- self-install, self-update, self-enable, etc. But it is particularly evil that Facebook can't be deleted. I have an Android phone that I don't use as a phone, nor do anything on it that I wish to keep private. None of the OS nor most of the core apps will update. Oh, you can run the update, but nothing changes. But every now and then a new app is suddenly on it. I don't know if it was payload with another app, or some website installed it without my permission. The fact that Android has more control over my phone's environment than I do is reason enough to never consider it safe. Someday, maybe soon, I'll install LineageOS.

    All that said, I wish I could remove the FLASH hard disk from the phone, plug it in as a 2nd/slave in another computer, and get at it the way I can and do with PCs when necessary.

    I'm not a phone expert but I would search for a "recovery ROM" for the particular phone. Rooting often depends on, or can be done through a special recovery ROM. I think...

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