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Apple vs. Facebook Armageddon — Live or Die?
Two tech giants battle Apple vs. Facebook: One champions privacy, and one uses your data like a kid who grabs cookies from the cookie jar without asking.
Privacy Wins — With the release of Apple’s iOS 14.5
Apple vs. Facebook on Privacy.
If you think of one of the most significant data breaches in the history of Facebook, you are likely to say, The Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal but this year,
Phone numbers, full names, locations, some email addresses, and other details from user profiles were posted to an amateur hacking forum,Business Insider reported last week.
The leaked data includes personal information from 533 million Facebook users in 106 countries.
And what has Facebook has to say?
This is another example of the ongoing, adversarial relationship technology companies have with fraudsters who intentionally break platform policies to scrape internet services. — Facebook
Facebook decided not to notify any of us, whose data can be maliciously used in Facebook’s own words, by fraudsters.
IOS 14.5 impacts Facebook’s piggy bank
In a post today, Mark Zuckerberg on his Facebook personal page said this:
If I were Vin Diesel…
Is Mark Zuck, furious that IOS 14.5 according to WIRED;
With the release of Apple’s iOS 14.5 on Monday, all of your apps will have to ask in a pop-up: Do you want to allow this app to track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites? For once, your answer can be no.
Apple’s is the Peoples’s Champ — Privacy Matters.
We believe users should have the choice over the data that is being collected about them and how it’s used. Facebook can continue to track users across apps and websites as before, App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14 will just require that they ask for your permission first. — Tim Cook’s tweet.
I don’t believe for a second that Mark Zuck and Facebook’s defiant stand on the new privacy rules set by Apple and its IOS 14.5 is the social media behemoth acting on behalf of small businesses who uses Facebook advertising, this is far from Facebook being benevolent and champions the small guy, but this is a show of Mark Zuck’s lack of understanding that “Privacy is a fundamental human right,” a statement which Tim Cook said in 2018.
Mark Zuck believes Apple is out to get him and Facebook. He believes that the Internet should remain a playground, his own Wild West, where there are no rules, only profit. A Lala land where he reigns supreme, that regulations are non-existent.
While Facebook does a lot of good things or has contributed some good to our society, companies like Facebook sees innovation as an excuse for technology to envelop itself into our lives and in total disregard of values, much less American values, where rights are protected first and foremost.
Let us not forget Mark Zuck, statement as first reported by Wall Street Journal
Privately, Mr. Zuckerberg told his lieutenants that Facebook “needed to inflict pain” upon Apple and Mr. Cook, said a person with knowledge of the discussions. The Wall Street Journal previously reported Mr. Zuckerberg’s comment.
In his post today on his Facebook page, Mark Zuckerberg is channeling his machismo, far from being Van Diesel, in an attempt to show himself as relatable, he instead shows something we should all be watching, how he reigns on his temper and how he handles dissent and criticism.
I hoped when he said it, it was hyperbole.
Privately, Mr. Zuckerberg told his lieutenants that Facebook “needed to inflict pain”
Apple is far from perfect. In the end, tech companies are driven by profits, but they can champion their consumers, and privacy is to be protected once in a while. Facebook, with its money, can devise ways to help small businesses without threatening its critics, and a word of advice to Mark Zuckerberg.
No means No.