As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants

Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by skybrian on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @10:59PM (#18712890)

I'm a bit worried that some journalists (and some readers) no longer care to make any distinction between an app having access for legitimate reasons that respect users' intentions and the whole company having access to do whatever they like. At least, they don't explain it well.

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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @11:43PM (#18713068)

The distinction doesn't exist in practical terms. The company controls the behavior of the app; the fact that an app has access for legitimate reasons doesn't mean that any given use of the access was for legitimate reasons.

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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by skybrian on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:27AM (#18713271)

I don't think this article made the case that the access granted was unreasonable.

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Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening f... by UncleMeat on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:23PM (#18717330)

Mark my words. There is going to be an article that grossly misunderstands oauth and tells people that facebook, twitter, etc, are all giving access user information to third party's willy nilly and that there is an entire system widely used across the web for encouraging this sort of behavior.

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