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> Well, you can do all that, and still Facebook will know where you are and sell that information to others.

So after limiting what it is authorized to access, the Facebook app proceeds to access it anyway. You could say it 'exceeds authorized access' - a criminal offense under the CFAA! Should someone perform a citizen's arrest on Mark Zuckerberg?

The Facebook app, itself, may not have location permissions but another app might and because the Facebook SDK is imbedded into that app, it's of ill-consequence if the Facebook app has location permissions or not. They're still getting that data from the imbedded Facebook SDK.

Yeah,they enforce CFAA only against individuals.they see it as a law to combat individual hackers.

If only a lawmaker would amend that to make CEOs operating a company in violation of CFAA criminaly liable.

Remember, you can make all the money in the world but people will still hate you if you are a lying douchebag.

I think as nerds we have a proclivity to "scheming", looking at the world as if it can be hacked with some cleverness. But we are social animals, and a balanced approach will yield better results than simply destroying other people's lives and emotional stability by lying and cheating, scheming and stealing.

Recently saw this parody of Zuck on Reddit [1], which is inflammatory but in my opinion, called for. When you open yourself up to fierce judgment, you shouldnt be surprised when it becomes much more exaggerated than justified.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/jKFFTyB_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&f...

That image is 145x68 pixels[1], for some reason.

[1] - https://media.makeameme.org/created/what-is-this-3kgg8z.jpg

Thanks for the heads up. It should be fixed now - didn't realize imgur now requires all these silly query params..what a regression.

Removing the _d provides the full res image:

https://i.imgur.com/jKFFTyB.jpg

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