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OPLIN 4Cast #632: Apple disables Facebook's spying app
February 6th, 2019

[image: technology security and internet safety and privacy issues with a
human eye and digital binary code as surveillance of hackers or hacking
from cyber criminals watching prohibited private access to web sites with
firewalls.] s headlines go, another story about Facebook in trouble over
their mishandling of user data is "Dog Bites Man
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_bites_dog_(journalism)>," isn't it? But
when *TechCrunch *revealed last week that Facebook had been paying users
for deep access to their private digital behavior, the story quickly blew
up, catching Google in the blast as well, as Apple revoked the privileges
that Facebook and Google were using to get at private data.

The story is cooling as quickly as it flared up; it's literally last week's
news by the time you're reading this. Again and again we're learning the
lesson, as Danny Crichton writes in
<https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/04/why-no-one-really-quits-google-or-facebook/>*TechCrunch
<https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/04/why-no-one-really-quits-google-or-facebook/>*,
that consumers will consistently choose a free product that comes with
surveillance over one that requires them to pay for their privacy. This
time, at least, some people got paid to be surveilled.

   -
   - Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them
   <https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/> [*TechCrunch*]
   "Since 2016, Facebook has been paying users ages 13 to 35 up to $20 per
   month plus referral fees to sell their privacy by installing the iOS or
   Android 'Facebook Research' app. Facebook even asked users to screenshot
   their Amazon order history page."
   - Facebook defends paying people to monitor them through its
   controversial app in a leaked memo to employees
   <https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-defends-spying-app-leaked-memo-employees-2019-1>
   [*Business Insider*]
   "'Asking users to allow us to collect data on their device usage is a
   highly efficient way of getting industry data from closed ecosystems, such
   as iOS and Android,' [Facebook executive Pedro Canahuati] wrote. 'We
   believe this is a valid method of market research.'"
   - Everything you need to know about Facebook, Google’s app scandal
   <https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/01/facebook-google-scandal/> [
   *TechCrunch*] "In Google’s case, any unencrypted data that involves
   another person’s data could have been collected. In Facebook’s case, it
   goes far further — any data of yours that interacts with another person,
   such as an email or a message, could have been collected by Facebook’s app."
   - Apple vs. Facebook: It's not all about privacy
   <https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-31/apple-facebook-dispute-it-s-not-all-about-privacy>
   [*Bloomberg Opinion*] "Apple's concern about its 'users and their data'
   might well be sincere, but this particular dispute isn't about the fact
   that Facebook collected user data; it's about the way that Facebook
   collected user data."

*From the Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - Foster, John Bellamy, and Robert W. McChesney. “Surveillance Capitalism
   <http://proxy.oplin.org:2054/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pwh&AN=96570243&site=pov-live>
   .” *Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine*, vol. 66, no. 3,
   July 2014, p. 1.
   - Wacks, Raymond. *Privacy: A Very Short Introduction
   <https://oplin.org/auth?url=http://www.veryshortintroductions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/9780198725947.001.0001/actrade-9780198725947>*,
   2nd edn. Oxford, 2016.
   - Shoshana Zuboff. “Curb the Excesses of Surveillance Capitalism
   <https://proxy.oplin.org:2111/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bwh&AN=wapo.be463f48-1ffa-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9&site=ehost-live>
   .” *Washington Post,* 25 January 2019, p. 1AD.

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