An anonymous Facebook engineer is going viral in all the wrong ways after a writer accused him of calling users’ concerns over privacy “stupid” and saying that since they checked a box allowing the social media giant to use the data, they oughtn’t to be annoyed that the data was sold to third parties.
The email was put up on social media by Tom Warren, a senior editor at The Verge, a tech publication. Warren recently wrote an article which dealt with Android users’ phone histories being stored by Facebook.
A Facebook software engineer just emailed me. It’s clear even Facebook employees don’t understand why people are surprised the company even needs to collect call history and SMS data (mobile friendly version of tweet) pic.twitter.com/Hk4PnzXGMa
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) March 25, 2018
“Facebook has been collecting call records and SMS data from Android devices for years,” Warren wrote.
“Your post of fb collecting call history and sms text is pretty dirty,” the engineer supposedly told Warren
“You’re turning a messenger/fb feature into a smear campaign. The app clearly ask (sic) for permission to read these data. Your article takes stupid audience reaction and spin it as a controversy. I think that’s pretty messed up. That’s like people freaking over what they signed in an App EULA and making a big deal about it later. I am a huge fan of the verge but this article is a low blow to fb and you know it. I expected better from you.” – READ MORE
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