That quote illustrates the tension between tech companies and user trust. The evolution of privacy concerns is significant, especially given the data these devices can now collect.
replyoh come on, who of us didn't go through a power-tripping edge lord phase? i too had a community game server once...
replyBecause we should hold the most powerful people to the highest standard, not the lowest one.
replyIt seems his values aren’t much better now. Too bad his company is so successful.
replyRemember when facebook was busted playing silent audio so the app could stay active in the background? I honestly don't think there's a company I trust less than facebook/meta. And it's because the rot is at the top, and has always been there.
replyNo. I did a search and found this though:
replyhttps://techcrunch.com/2015/10/22/facebook-says-it-fixed-a-b...
Supposedly it was a bug, but with Facebook, who knows.
And if you believe that, you'll believe anything.
reply>The other issue, that Facebook was running a silent audio stream in the background, is also called out. Grant says this was unintentional, and that it was not being used to keep the app alive — yet it did as a byproduct of the bug.
replyHow much issue tracking and scrum management and engineering work and code review and testing and deployment and maintenance went into accidentally streaming silent audio that you only stop doing after you got caught and have to claim all that successfully tested and deployed work was unintentional, without ever explaining the actual innocuous purpose of streaming silent audio and paying for all that extra bandwidth?
I was just reading a comment on HN yesterday about how MacOS had so many bugs. I guess they don't have issue tracking, scrum management, engineering work, code review, testing, deployment, and maintenance either.
replyI hate FB, but not everything is always a sinister plan, although this could have been. I will repeat: "with Facebook, who knows."
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