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iPhone protected you from Facebook call scraping. Android, not so much.
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| March 25, 2018
| Renee Ritchie
Posted on 03/25/2018 8:05:21 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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The Apple iPhone was protecting its users against FaceBook call scraping and SMS data mining which Android did not. Video included. —PING!
Apple and Android Difference Security Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
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posted on
03/25/2018 8:11:57 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
To: Swordmaker
Not being on Facebook in the first place protects you completely.
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posted on
03/25/2018 8:14:10 PM PDT
by
LouieFisk
To: Swordmaker
Glad I have an iPhone and have never signed up for Facebook.
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posted on
03/25/2018 8:15:22 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
To: Swordmaker
Facebook scraped call, SMS data for years from Android phones. Not my phone. I do not have FaceBook.
To: LouieFisk
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posted on
03/25/2018 8:20:14 PM PDT
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: Swordmaker
I am a winner two ways:
I don’t have an iPhone,
and
I don’t use Facebook.
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posted on
03/25/2018 8:29:04 PM PDT
by
adorno
To: LouieFisk
Your online privacy is more secure if you are not on Facebook, but every time you go to a webpage and a cookie is put on your computer it is basically doing the same thing. Facebook just perfected it first.
In reality, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and others know far more about you than the government.
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posted on
03/25/2018 8:39:26 PM PDT
by
volunbeer
(Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
To: LouieFisk
Not being on Facebook in the first place protects you completely.
To: TaxPayer2000
I have Facebook. I just didn’t put it on my phone. seemed silly.
To: Swordmaker; LouieFisk; volunbeer
Here a great thread from the guy who discovered it, for those that like to read their info:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/976368845635035138.html
Can confirm that Facebook didn’t harvest my calls or text messages on my Iphones, 3, 5c and 6c
I did take Messenger and Facebook off my phone though.
To: Swordmaker
Facebook scraped call, SMS data for years from Android phones. And my wife snickered at me for not allowing Facebook or Yahoo on my Android phone.
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posted on
03/25/2018 8:49:41 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: volunbeer
In reality, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and others know far more about you than the government. In reality the government cane easily find out anything Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and others know, if they don't already know it themselves.
To quote the bureaucrat Thaddeus Araman in the Asimov story The Dead Past: "You have created a new world among the three of you. I congratulate you. Happy goldfish bowl to you, to me, to everyone, and may each of you fry in hell forever."
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posted on
03/25/2018 8:54:05 PM PDT
by
null and void
("We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?" ~ Joseph Stalin)
To: Bodleian_Girl
“I did take Messenger and Facebook off my phone though.”
—
Facebook is unnecessary - it’s easier to send people an email, text or just call them. They probably don’t don’t care about seeing a pic of what someone had for lunch or a bunch of duckface pics, anyway.
To: null and void
That’s why if a person just must do Facebook, Google, etc. use a fake name, provide fake info and connect it to a free throwaway email account and don’t interact with anybody or click on anything.
To: adorno
FreeRepublic scrapes your landline’s metadata.
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posted on
03/25/2018 9:18:52 PM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: LouieFisk
That’s why if a person just must do Facebook, Google, etc. use a fake name, provide fake info and connect it to a free throwaway email account and don’t interact with anybody or click on anything.I grow my own food, sew my own clothes, forge my own transistors and never ever connect to the internet.
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posted on
03/25/2018 9:20:08 PM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: Alter Kaker
“I grow my own food, sew my own clothes, forge my own transistors and never ever connect to the internet. “
Same here. I don’t log on to FR or even turn on my computer.
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posted on
03/25/2018 9:43:07 PM PDT
by
JoeRed
To: Alter Kaker
I actually have been making transistors since the early 70s...
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posted on
03/25/2018 10:00:46 PM PDT
by
null and void
("We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?" ~ Joseph Stalin)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
03/25/2018 10:25:00 PM PDT
by
ptsal
( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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