Latest controversy. That's called escalation of privilege and should certainly be illegal in any jurisdiction. Who needs the NSA when you've got Facebook & Google? https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/977912379936792577 …pic.twitter.com/Nr4ks5r1rI
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Thread 2 https://twitter.com/mpesce/status/977755143750889473 … both Facebook & Google are to blame here, feeding off each other's gross negligence and malfeasance (whether wilfully or not is largely irrelevant)
For example, even though I treated FB as a soapbox only from the get-go, it's highly probably that it siphoned texts from my old Android phone, if this latest controversy applies universally. And I can't know for sure if I can ever delete them from FB.
This, and FB allowing 3rd parties to scrape contact data, cuts through the surveillance vs censorship quandary. Both Google & FB are long overdue regulatory enforcement in data handling https://twitter.com/konklone/status/977904977552269313 … (and that's besides issues of collusion in propaganda campaigns)
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