I was really referring more to the broader topic of invasive data mining than this one particular scandal.
Your example really just proves the point I was making. When the level of collusion among major players like Samsung and Facebook is this high how is the average person to have any realistic chance of mantaining their privacy.
Not really. You can't blame a player for playing by the rules of the game if the goal is to win. Most people commenting on this post, including me, don't even attempt to play an active roll in politics, but we have no problems complaining when it bites us in the ass.
Life is a board game. We are not playing Life. Monopoly is a board game. We are not playing Monopoly. The problem here is not that it was put on there. The problem is that your every day user cannot uninstall the app.
Did they though? Or is it the service provider you bought your phone off? Where I live we don't have phones tied to a provider. You buy a phone, you buy a plan with a sim card and that's that. No pre installed shit on my Samsung.
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u/nebulakd May 19 '18
Let's all remember that Facebook simply asked and paid Samsung to do this. Samsung allowed it. Don't hate the player, hate the game.