Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Messages

Re:Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Mess... by uw_rob on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @09:17PM (#16807258)

> It’s absurd that someone thinks that they have an expectation of privacy when they voluntarily choose to send a message to someone else.

How does this world view reconcile with the fact that many different states have 2 party consent? Or the fact that considerable money and effort have been spent on concepts like OTR?

People expect others to have some discretion in what private information they pass on to others. Most applications have this assumptions built in mind.

You can easily forward a single email to someone in gmail, but there is not 1-click solution to send all of your emails to someone else.

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Re:Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Mess... by downandout on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @09:29PM (#16807298)

You can easily forward a single email to someone in gmail, but there is not 1-click solution to send all of your emails to someone else.

That’s actually wrong. Right now, today, you can write apps for the Gmail platform that could have this ability as soon as someone authorizes it [1]. So everyone is down on Facebook, who disabled this ability 4 years ago. What about Google?

[1] https://developers.google.com/gmail/

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Re:Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Mess... by tzakrajs on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @12:10PM (#16812569)

You are missing the point I am making. People are bartering with Facebook and using your private conversation with your contributions to do it. They ought to have no right to that data for their economic prosperity.

This isn't your nana forwarding chain mail.

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