Facebook and privacy, really? A few words: don't believe the hype.
While Apple Is Protecting Our Privacy, Facebook Is Selling Our Data
Some controversy this week because Apple is accused of anti-competitive measures. Apple decided to remove non compliant applications from the App Store which were depending on MDM to implement screen time like features. Something that is seen as Apple using his dominant position with its App Store. Well, that's a way to put it. But... Continue Reading →
Google is the Internet
Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash My reading this past week-end ”Google’s Earth: how the tech giant is helping the state spy on us | News | The Guardian”. Some staggering facts. Google also handles billions of searches and YouTube plays daily, and has a billion active Gmail users, meaning it had access to most of the world’s... Continue Reading →
Don’t Trust Facebook I Said
Another day, another bad news coming from Facebook: "Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years". Facebook is probing a series of security failures in which employees built applications that logged unencrypted password data for Facebook users and stored it in plain text on internal company servers. They sell your... Continue Reading →
Please, Stop Doing This
Photo by Glen Carrie on Unsplash Good Sunday read from the NewYork Times: "Why I Put My Dog’s Photo on Social Media, but Not My Son’s". In short, stop posting photos of your young child on Facebook or more generally on the web. If you can't read the article for some reasons, take the time to look at... Continue Reading →
My Life. My Phone. My Privacy. Apple.
Great ad from Apple today. Non tech people will get it. I always thought that Apple could play the privacy card a lot more while promoting their products, their services. Their business model is partly built on maintaining privacy. Many people don't believe that. I do. https://youtu.be/A_6uV9A12ok
On Facial Recognition Training
Excellent article from NBC News: "Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent". People’s faces are being used without their permission, in order to power technology that could eventually be used to surveil them Let's say you have a Flickr account with hundreds of photos of your family, your friends, and... Continue Reading →
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Discovers Privacy – Don’t Be Fools
There is something fundamentally flawed about Facebook talking about privacy. This is against their business models. Don't be fools. I'll drop a link here about how we shouldn't believe them.
Quitting Facebook To Build Bokeh
Here is an interesting project, Bokeh, a photo sharing social network. I already like the name. Think of it has an Instagram with no ads. Why now? Because a guy decided that he had enough of Facebook for pretty much the same reasons that I had too. Same goes for Instagram. So he wants to... Continue Reading →