{"id":4948,"date":"2015-09-23T21:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T21:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2015-08-13T21:05:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T21:05:48","slug":"linked-harvard-student-loses-facebook-internship-after-pointing-out-privacy-flaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/09\/23\/linked-harvard-student-loses-facebook-internship-after-pointing-out-privacy-flaws\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Harvard student loses Facebook internship after pointing out privacy flaws&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/2015\/08\/12\/harvard-student-loses-facebook-internship-after-pointing-out-privacy-flaws\/zASZFdUjn6PoliUiR9kVHJ\/story.html\">Boston.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The next day, Facebook asked him to deactivate the extension. He did, but also updated his Medium post and the extension\u2019s description to make it clear that Facebook asked him to disable the map.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Three days after the extension was posted, and two hours before he was supposed to leave to start his internship, Khanna received a call from a Facebook employee telling him that the company was rescinding his summer internship offer. Khanna said he was told that he violated the Facebook user agreement when he scraped the site for data.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m actually surprised Facebook took that course of action. Okay, so there\u2019s the hooray from me that this guy showed via public data that Messenger was collecting mass amounts of user location history and it was able to be mined and exploited.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m just surprised at the corporate ethos within Facebook. Here\u2019s a guy that hasn\u2019t even started working for you (for free) yet and he\u2019s already accomplished something awesome. Google would have kept him on because they embody that hacker culture. I assumed Facebook did as well and it\u2019s troubling if you\u2019re a shareholder and this company is turning people away who want to tinker, explore, learn and get their hands dirty.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the privacy aspect, I linked to this post a while ago.I think it\u2019s the best thing about Facebook in a very long time. Don\u2019t use Facebook. That\u2019s just essential now and should be everyone\u2019s SOP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Boston.com: The next day, Facebook asked him to deactivate the extension. 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I stopped using the service 5 years ago but had removed a ton of my data from the site long before that.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7144,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/10\/27\/linked-you-are-the-product\/","url_meta":{"origin":4948,"position":1},"title":"Linked: &#8220;You Are the Product&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"October 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via London Review of Books: Automation and artificial intelligence are going to have a big impact in all kinds of worlds. These technologies are new and real and they are coming soon. Facebook is deeply interested in these trends. We don\u2019t know where this is going, we don\u2019t know what\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6277,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/11\/02\/linked-all-of-the-creepy-things-facebook-knows-about-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":4948,"position":2},"title":"Linked: &#8220;All of the Creepy Things Facebook Knows About You&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"November 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Gizmodo: If you\u2019re curious about all the data points Facebook is using to target ads to you, here\u2019s the full list: Scary. 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This was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7251,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/linked-how-facebook-figures-out-everyone-youve-ever-met\/","url_meta":{"origin":4948,"position":4},"title":"Linked: &#8220;How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You&#8217;ve Ever Met&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"December 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Gizmodo: Facebook warns users to be judicious about using all this data. \u201cYou may have business or personal contacts in your phone,\u201d the Learn More screen admonishes the reader. \u201cPlease only send friend requests to people you know personally who would welcome the invite.\u201d Having issued this warning, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5990,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/07\/25\/linked-facebook-threatens-to-delete-synced-photos-forever\/","url_meta":{"origin":4948,"position":5},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Facebook Threatens to Delete Synced Photos Forever&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Gizmodo: Sometime this week, Facebook users (and considering the statistics, I assume that\u2019s most of you) may have received an email stating that some privately synced photos would be deleted soon in order to make way for the Moments app, which has been around for about a year. hah.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}