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A California man is suing Facebook for allegedly scanning the content of private messages sent between users of the site.
The suit alleges that Facebook scans the messages in search of hyperlinks sent between users. "If there is a link to a web page contained in that message, Facebook treats it as a 'like' of the page, and increases the page's 'like,' counter by one," the suit contends. The site tracks when users "like" pages in order to compile individual profiles that allow third parties to send targeted advertisements.
Source: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/facebook-sued-for-scanning-private-user-messages/article/2591806
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by vux984 on Tuesday May 24 2016, @03:12PM
A) I don't particularly care if FB can read the casual and boring things I send over their messenger.
I care to avoid software with advertising baked in. And something like whatsapp owned by facebook, I'm not going to touch with a 10 foot pole. Even if the communication itself is innocuous I don't need anyone harvesting it for advertising. I don't use facebook. I don't use whatsapp. I also dislike skype.
B) Anyone on my friends list who I want contacting me off of FB already has my phone number.
And that's sort of where telegram fits in. I am interested in software that will let me communicate with people from a desktop/taptop to their phone and vice versa. I prefer to send a messages to my wife via a desktop app than pick up my phone type on that. While she prefers to recieve them and chat back from her phone. My brother prefers to use his ipad.
So telegram's use case for me is that it fills the gap in basic sms in that it can go back and forth to a desktop. Skype and whatsapp both do this too... but the advertising infrastructure behind both is undesirable. I've only recently tried telegram... and its worked well for what i wanted it for. It also syncs messages between multiple devices, so i can wander from my desktop to laptop to phone and the conversations stay in sync... again this isn't novel, but its a feature i wanted.