> "Facebook has been using their membership to distribute a data-collecting app to consumers, which is a clear breach of their agreement with Apple," Apple says. "Any developer using their enterprise certificates to distribute apps to consumers will have their certificates revoked, which is what we did in this case to protect our users and their data.”
WTF is Facebook doing? They've been making bone-heading privacy-destroying decisions for at least a decade now, but it somehow seems like it's gotten worse recently even as they've increasingly been coming under scrutiny? Isn't this the opposite of how a rational actor should be responding? Or are they figuring since they're already taking the heat for it, they might as well continue doing it?
Facebook has yet to face any real consequence for their actions, so they persist.
This isn’t ever going to change until governments do their job and take protecting the population they are sworn to protect as a serious part of their jobs.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 27.4 ms ] thread> "Facebook has been using their membership to distribute a data-collecting app to consumers, which is a clear breach of their agreement with Apple," Apple says. "Any developer using their enterprise certificates to distribute apps to consumers will have their certificates revoked, which is what we did in this case to protect our users and their data.”
This isn’t ever going to change until governments do their job and take protecting the population they are sworn to protect as a serious part of their jobs.
This also doesn't help those on Android; I know it's not illegal, it's still shady as most user have no idea what they are agreeing to.
I wish Apple would revoke all of their certificates and show they are deadly serious about protecting user privacy.