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   Jake Hamby (jhamby@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 20:45:43 JST Jake Hamby

   When A Greedy Oligarch Tries To Be Hip...
   Kat Blaque

   https://youtu.be/rEZa4gnqHrE?si=E6N6O4vvIcnd6Vjk

   Excellent analysis.
   #Facebook #capitalism #JoeRogan #Zuckerberg

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     Jake Hamby (jhamby@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 20:45:40 JST Jake Hamby

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     I worked on the #Android team from 2010 to 2014, and I had a real crisis of hating what I saw Android had become. But #Meta actually pushes the envelope as far as being creepy even more than #Google ever has.

     Meta was caught downloading people's SMS and call logs. On Android only.

     https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-facebook-was-able-to-collect-android-phone-and-text-logs/

     Android has extremely granular permissions, which is great if you're a nerd, but in this case it allows apps like FB Messenger to do all sorts of creepy stuff like scan Wi-Fi and BT devices.

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     Jake Hamby (jhamby@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 20:45:42 JST Jake Hamby

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     So there's a part halfway through the video where she pastes in a TikTok video of a guy warning against using Facebook Messenger because it's basically a spying device, scanning all your Wi-Fi networks for devices and that sort of thing.

     I thought to myself, "he must be talking about the Android version of the app". Indeed, if you're on Android, yikes, I wouldn't install it:

     https://crambler.com/truth-about-facebook-messenger-app-privacy/#facebook-messenger-permissions

     The iPhone does block companies like Meta and Google from vacuuming up too much of your data.

     BeAware :fediverse: repeated this.