[conspire] no privacy

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Don Marti (dmarti at zgp.org):

> Yes, Facebook makes "shadow profiles" of people who aren't
> registered users and have not clicked "OK" to the terms of service.
> Hella creepy.

I vaguely recall that, _somewhere_, Charles Stross has an argument for
why everyone ought to create a Faceplant profile solely to put on record
'No, you may not datamine and share photograph metadata mentioning my
name'.  Beyond that, people who willingly deal with Faceplant, Inc.
after all that's happened -- including the latest revelations, described
below -- amaze me for values of 'amaze' approximating 'I had no idea
anyone was _that_ stupid'.  (Google, Inc., is also culpable in the
below-detailed matter, but only to an order of magnitude lower degree of
cheekiness and breathtaking overstepping of boundaries.)

Good layman's summary, here:
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/01/facebook-google-scandal/

----- Forwarded message from Deirdre Saoirse Moen <deirdre at deirdre.net> -----

Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2019 21:11:24 -0800
From: Deirdre Saoirse Moen <deirdre at deirdre.net>
To: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
Subject: Re: Apple revoked Google's and Facebook's Enterprise developer

Long story short: they were using them more broadly than their
certificate permitted. Issue here is that the enterprise certificates
allow more deep info on the device use (because it's usually a company
device) -- but those apps went to customers.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/01/31/apple-google-gander
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/01/31/google-vpn-privacy
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/01/30/apple-facebook-dev-certs

And the best link:
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/01/29/facebook-teens-vpn

"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."

Deirdre