Facebook Messenger isn't evil and it's not about to spy on you http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/social-networks/3537202/facebook-messenger-app-isnt-evil-its-not-about-spy-on-you/ …pic.twitter.com/G2VN1eIErw
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@the_gadgeteur It's not about the permissions. Article says Messenger does not spy on you. It does. It's their business model. Negligent.
@aral services like that are only worth their existence if they know about you. Analyzing data is core part of it
@the_gadgeteur Exactly. I’m all too aware of that :) (See http://thelink.is/free-is-a-lie )
@aral “spy” implies theres a guy sitting there looking at everything coming in and/or sharing with other people. that’s not what’s going on
@the_gadgeteur No, spying does not imply a person doing it. If it did, 90% of government spying wouldn’t count as spying either.
@aral it’s all intent. I legitimately believe facebook/google et. all aren’t the nefarious entities they are being portrayed as.
@aral social network/chat service. They all do it. again, this was a non story.
@aral if you’re splitting hairs about fb analyzing (which is already assumed), you need to drum up just as much hype over literally every
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