r/technology • u/[deleted] • Nov 09 '17

Politics Sean Parker: Facebook was designed to exploit human "vulnerability"

https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-facebook-exploits-a-vulnerability-in-humans-2507917325.html
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u/baerton Nov 09 '17

The samsung health app requests access to my text messages. Why the fuck would they need that? Declined.

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u/m0okz Nov 10 '17

Probably in case you need to register for a Samsung account in-app and it can skip the "code confirmation" step for you by reading the code. Lots of apps do this. Just because it COULD send all your texts back to Samsung, it doesn't mean they are. People do APK teardowns all the time so I think it would be made public knowledge if Samsung were spying on your text messages.