So do you just love your Smart phone? Do you love to download all those cool apps that are available?
Well you are one of the millions that do.
But a little warning. Seems Facebook's app then allows them to read your text messages you send.
Oh and youtube's app allows them to access your camera and take photos and videos when they want to!
All of this without ever telling you they are doing it or disclosing to you that they have done it.
You keep your phone by your bed? Imagine the videos youtube might be getting. You take it in the bathroom with you? You take it into important meetings? The list goes on and on about the invasion of privacy, besides the type of videos and pictures they are getting of you and your family or anything you do.
But did you read the small print when you downloaded that app?
Seems Facebook has been having no problem spying on people and what texts they have sent out.
From the Australian Herald:
Facebook admitted reading text messages belonging to smartphone users who downloaded the social-networking app and said that it was accessing the data as part of a trial to launch its own messaging service, The (London) Sunday Times reported.
Other well-known companies accessing smartphone users' personal data - such as text messages - include photo-sharing site Flickr, dating site Badoo and Yahoo Messenger, the paper said.
It claimed that some apps even allow companies to intercept phone calls - while others, such as YouTube, are capable of remotely accessing and operating users' smartphone cameras to take photographs or videos at any time.
I do not have a smart phone nor do I want one. If people are smart they will get rid of all their "cool" apps as once it is downloaded you have given permission to that company to access all your personal information.
Who knows what type of pictures have been taken of you if you have a smart phone and downloaded youtube's app?
ARE YOU OUTRAGED YET?
As someone mentioned to me. You don't even have to have a smart phone, someone else with one that you are around, an app can be videoing what you are doing and saying.
that bs fu** facebook an ut
ReplyDeleteHi Sherrie
ReplyDeleteI don't use facebook but I do have an iphone, and youtube is a preinstalled app although I have never used it. It can however be disabled. For anyone with an iphone: Tap the "Settings" icon, then tap "General," and then tap "Restrictions." Type in your four-digit Restrictions passcode (I simply used all zeros). The Restrictions screen appears.
Tap the option next to "YouTube" to "Off." YouTube is now disabled, and the YouTube app's icon disappears from the home screen.
Read more: How to Remove Google & YouTube From the iPhone | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_8297789_remove-google-youtube-iphone.html#ixzz1nXkYHtQb
Thanks for all you do!
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I know... Everything is accessed by "them". Don't care. What I publish in social media like facebook, I KNOW is not private, and it's not meant to be... What is private, is said in person, in private...
ReplyDeleteWell apparently what you say in private is not private if you or someone else has a smartphone with them...
ReplyDeleteLet me see now. Facebook is a Mark Zuckerberg creation, right?
ReplyDeleteThe ADL and AIPAC are well known for their suspected habit of collecting dirt on politicians and people of influence, and the ADL has even been busted for stealing confidential Los Angeles Police Department files on certain individuals, and had to pay a substantial settlement to a number of victims of their spying as part of a civil lawsuit that was filed against them.
Armed with a sufficient amount of incriminating or embarrassing 'dirt' on members of the US Congress would give the ADL the ability to basically control how Congress voted on issues or matters of concern that were important to that one particular Middle Eastern nation that the ADL deems as its most favorite nation. Step out of line, bingo - your dirt is front page news on the New York Times. Step out of line, double bingo - your dirt is the lead story on all of the major news networks. Can you spell: Career Over?
Now, we all have seen how supposedly 'private' text messages that were sent by well known celebrities or politicians somehow, amazingly, wind up being snatched and intercepted and then these often very embarrassing text messages are often splashed across the front pages of sleazy publications like The National Enquirer, right? In the case of high ranking politicians - these exposures of their private text messaging can often be so embarrassing that they might be forced to step down and leave politics entirely. To be replaced by someone else, who is more suitably subservient to whatever the ADL or AIPAC demands of them.
So, I guess the question that needs to be asked here is this: Would Mark Zuckerberg deliberately design applications that, when downloaded and installed on Smart Phones, would serve the purpose of snatching supposedly private text messages and then surreptitiously sending a copy of those messages to Facebook, where they could be accessed by the ADL and then used for blackmail purposes?
Hey, for a hypothetical situational example: Let us pretend that the rats over at the ADL wanted to force the USA and our Congress to launch a war against a specific nation that had not only not attacked us, but who hasn't attacked anyone in a couple hundred years. Let's say that the American people were sick and tired of fighting wars that a foreign nation wants us to fight for them, so in order for the ADL to get around this massive public opposition - they decided to blackmail Congress to push for war anyway. On cue, enter Mark Zuckerberg and this still developing news revelation that is the subject of this very interesting article.
People actually read this BS ... just what the hell do you have that they would want? Think about it .. sorry, you don't think thats the problem here .. the dumb phone is what you need, because you are ....
ReplyDeleteWhatever ..
For me, I love my smartphone because I can use it to start using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and I always updated in Facebook as well as in Twitter and I also start using it to start earning cash.
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