{"id":32713,"date":"2018-03-23T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32713"},"modified":"2018-03-23T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T15:00:59","slug":"breaching-the-public-trust-facebook-is-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32713","title":{"rendered":"Breaching the Public Trust \u2013 Facebook is the\u00a0Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<header id=\"masthead\" class=\"site-header\" role=\"banner\">\n<div class=\"site-header-image\">\n<div class=\"site-branding-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"site-branding\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<nav id=\"site-navigation\" class=\"main-navigation clear\" role=\"navigation\">\n<h3 class=\"menu-top-container\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2018\/03\/22\/breaching-the-public-trust-facebook-is-the-beginning\/\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Breaching the Public Trust \u2013 Facebook is the\u00a0Beginning<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/nav>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"site-content\">\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"content-area\">\n<article id=\"post-6263\" class=\"post-6263 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-culture category-media category-politics tag-censorship tag-corruption tag-data-harvesting tag-facebook tag-google tag-hillary tag-politics tag-social-media\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">Last night I was chatting with a friend while waiting for my daughter. She told me her phone now informs her when her bills are due.\u00a0 Now, that may not seem like a big deal, but it is when you realize that she never told her phone to do that.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Her phone is scanning her emails and letting her know her when her electric bill is due.<\/p>\n<p>I told her Google likely pushed down an update which she agreed to without realizing it (or getting the opportunity to opt-out of) which authorized them to not only scan her inbox but set up alerts for her.<\/p>\n<p>She was angry about it, and rightfully so.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I don\u2019t use any of the Google apps on my Android phone.\u00a0 Outlook for email, Opera for my browser.\u00a0 Office for my productivity apps.\u00a0 It was a conscious choice.\u00a0 I moved to Android under protest because Microsoft willfully destroyed Windows Phone.<\/p>\n<p>I know it\u2019s not much better, but at least Microsoft appreciates my business, now, for the first time in their miserable existence.<\/p>\n<p>And I wasn\u2019t willing to shell out $600+ for a comparable iPhone.\u00a0 Pennywise and pound-foolish, I know, but no one\u2019s perfect.<\/p>\n<p>As a hardware-savvy guy I know when software is over-burdening hardware and why.<\/p>\n<p>And I can tell you the data harvesting on my phone was so out of control by Facebook and Google that it became nigh unusable on wake-up.\u00a0 Upwards of a minute or two would go by before the phone was usable because so much data was being harvested off it before it would deign to allow me to use it.<\/p>\n<p>I will switch to the iPhone when I can justify the money.<\/p>\n<p>Once I deleted Facebook and all its crap from my phone, it miraculously became almost functional again.\u00a0 I could answer calls as they came in.\u00a0 I could reply to texts and approve blog comments\/pingbacks.<\/p>\n<p>I will never reinstall Facebook on any device I own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaching the Public Trust \u2013 Facebook is the\u00a0Beginning Last night I was chatting with a friend while waiting for my daughter. She told me her phone now informs her when her bills are due.\u00a0 Now, that may not seem like a big deal, but it is when you realize that she never told her phone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19421,190,1868,1493,378,652,19420,16963,815],"class_list":["post-32713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-apps","tag-data","tag-data-mining","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-privacy","tag-public-trust","tag-tom-luongo","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32714,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32713\/revisions\/32714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}