sfolax

This is just an opinion piece, there is nothing in here that is any more credible than the articles it is trying to attack.

This happens. Even Apple isn't immune.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2017/07/28/apple-paid-nokia-2-billion-as-part-of-a-patent-lawsuit-settlement/amp/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/7/26/16035510/apple-university-wisconsin-madison-patent-infringement-processor-payout

There are many more.

This "Editorial" is quite defensive over rumoured devices that haven't even been announced yet. Can't you just wait until they announced and then start defending?

Also, these are just electronic devices. Imagine going back 10 years and reading the equivalent of these articles about Blackberries. How embarrassing for the writers.

DanielEran said:

sfolax said:

Stopped reading at the first sentence, factually wrong as can always expect from a DED piece.
The data was not obtained without permission
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/18/facebook_confirms_cambridge_analytica_stole_its_data_its_a_plot_claims_former_director/

“Approximately 270,000 people downloaded the app. In so doing, they gave their consent for Kogan to access information such as the city they set on their profile, or content they had liked, as well as more limited information about friends who had their privacy settings set to allow it,” the statement reads.

The kicker’s in the last bit of that. Unless users had their Facebook privacy settings locked down the app slurped not only the 270,000 consenting users but all their friends as well - over 50 million people according to Christopher Wylie, a former researcher director at CA, who had a copy of the data set.

Facebook is peeved that the data was collected under an academic license and then sold commercially.

If they had a commercial license, nothing would have been said about this.

Lastly, why don't you care about this as well - https://www.rt.com/usa/421808-obama-facebook-mine-data/

270k people unwitting gave access to their data, which allowed the data of 50 million other people to be stolen. 

How do you not get the words you are typing?

See that's where you are wrong.

https://www.ft.com/content/6591e21a-2ce1-11e8-a34a-7e7563b0b0f4
Mr Kogan said on Wednesday that his interest in the data gathered from around 270,000 Facebook users paid to complete a survey, and their friends, was to better understand people’s personalities — a key area of his academic research. But by transferring the data to Cambridge Analytica for commercial use, Facebook said he breached their terms of service.

People were paid to sign up. You don't just give your facebook details away to an app - you have to authorise it and it shows you what you are giving access to. Most people just ignore that and click Ok. There is a difference between not reading/understand and stolen. 

Stopped reading at the first sentence, factually wrong as can always expect from a DED piece.
The data was not obtained without permission
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/18/facebook_confirms_cambridge_analytica_stole_its_data_its_a_plot_claims_former_director/

“Approximately 270,000 people downloaded the app. In so doing, they gave their consent for Kogan to access information such as the city they set on their profile, or content they had liked, as well as more limited information about friends who had their privacy settings set to allow it,” the statement reads.

The kicker’s in the last bit of that. Unless users had their Facebook privacy settings locked down the app slurped not only the 270,000 consenting users but all their friends as well - over 50 million people according to Christopher Wylie, a former researcher director at CA, who had a copy of the data set.

Facebook is peeved that the data was collected under an academic license and then sold commercially.

If they had a commercial license, nothing would have been said about this.

Lastly, why don't you care about this as well - https://www.rt.com/usa/421808-obama-facebook-mine-data/