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A comment on Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client. Parent comment

Re:Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client by enitihas on Saturday March 28, 2020 @03:29AM (#22709776)
No, you attack the systematic problem and don't become happy by fixing one of them, since it is a hollow victory, and public outrage has limited capacity for repeated posts of "app x is sending to Facebook".
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Re:Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client by hrktb on Saturday March 28, 2020 @04:06AM (#22709878)
Why not go both ways ?

In this very thread we started from “I can tell you from experience that everyone does this.”.

Now when a PO will be asked to add facebook in its app (or wants to remove it) there is at least one prominent instance to point to showing that having the SDK is not the right move. And hopefully that “everyone does it” will become “some still do it”.

If of course in the meantime we find a working systematic solution, it’s all for the better.

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Re:Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client by DyslexicAtheist on Saturday March 28, 2020 @04:00AM (#22709860)
honest question: _how_ do we attack the underlying systematic problem to solve it once and for all?

write a blog post?

take it twitter/HN/reddit?

hold a rally/demonstration outside Apple/Google?

call our MP?

bombard their employees with phone calls or knock on their front door where they live?

write malware?

... really I got nothing that sounds like it would work. In retrospect all of Tim Cook's privacy / security grandstanding and attitude of superiority was just that. There are no good guys in this game.

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Re:Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client by gowld on Saturday March 28, 2020 @10:07AM (#22711204)
Buy a better behaving phone, or admit that you don't mind being spied on as compensation for features.
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Re:Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client by saagarjha on Saturday March 28, 2020 @04:09AM (#22709892)
Legislation?
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Re:Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client by DyslexicAtheist on Saturday March 28, 2020 @04:27AM (#22709932)
sure, but since I am unable to actually make legislation I wrote "call your MP" - which is more sobering/realistic if you look at the likely success of this particular effort.

We're outgunned by the lobbying from these companies I think.

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