Facebook's New Study App Pays Adults For Data After Teen Scandal (techcrunch.com) 25
Facebook shut down its Research and Onavo programs after a report exposed how the company paid teenagers for root access to their phones to gain market data on competitors. Now Facebook is relaunching its paid market research program, but this time with principles -- namely transparency, fair compensation, and safety. From a report: The goal? To find out what other competing apps and features Facebook should buy, copy, or ignore. Today Facebook releases its "Study From Facebook" app for Android only. Some adults 18+ in the US and India will be recruited by ads on and off Facebook to willingly sign up to let Facebook collect extra data from them exchange for a monthly payment. They'll be warned that Facebook will gather what apps are on their phone, how much time they spend using those apps, the app activity names of features they use in other apps, plus their country, device, and network type.
be careful with who you share data with (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Get a burner phone (Score:1)
Don't give 'em any real info.
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you pay $200 for a phone?
Wanna buy a watch?
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For a burner, that's the best kind. There's no reason to spend so much money
If you ever thought (Score:4, Insightful)
If you ever thought there was a level to which Facebook wouldn't stoop to trample people's privacy rights in their relentless quest to suck up your data, now you know.
There is no bottom for Facebook- they'd gladly implant chips in newborn babies if they thought they could get away with it (or at least get away with it long enough to collect some useful data).
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You got it wrong. You can't take data from teenagers, even if their parents say okay. You need the teenagers permission as well,
Oh yes, I'm sure that 'permission' is an extremely important concept to Facebook.
I'm sure that Facebook would never, ever do anything sleazy, especially if they had to get permission first. Heaven forbid.
Seriously, though- did you just wake up from a 30-year coma? Are you really that unaware of what Facebook has been doing since its inception?
1 Natas Way (Score:2)
I look forward to the day heavy demolishing equipment rolls up to Facebook headquarters reduces it to rubble and hauls it off to make room for a park with trees and flowers and chirping birds.
"but this time with principles" (Score:1)
fool me once, shame on you.
fool me twice, shame on me
So Facebook, please explain why we should trust you this time? is it because some paid talking head is telling us to? especially given that you have had your hand caught in the cookie jar several times trying to mine our data. At this point if they want the trust back then they have to opensource all of their code for any external security researcher to verify that it isnt doing anything else behind the scenes.
They have been caught taking your call logs,
A company's personality reflects the CEO (Score:3)
s/principles/shame (Score:2)
Facebook shut down its Research and Onavo programs after a report exposed how the company paid teenagers for root access to their phones to gain market data on competitors. Now Facebook is relaunching its paid market research program, but this time with principles
There's an important difference between doing something differently because you were caught and are now being watched, vs of your own accord because it's the right thing. The former is NOT principled.
Principles (Score:2)
By principles I assume they mean they will use the word 'principles' at some point, not actually follow any.
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Don't forget why Facebook exists (Score:1)
Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook to fat-shame girls who had rejected him at Harvard