Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules
The way to fix this is not to ask the user whether Facebook should be allowed to track them. That approach is doomed because it gives the FB app the option to diminish its functionality or <i>refuse to work altogether</i> without those permissions.<p>This kind of stuff happens a lot. Almost every (Android) app I've downloaded in the past two years refuses to run if I don't allow it to see my location. Why does an HP photo printer app need my location? Answer: It doesn't. So now I have to install a GPS spoofer app just to print a photo.<p>The way to fix this nonsense permanently is to give the user a single dashboard that lets him/her determine for every app whether it can see <i>true or random data</i> when it tries to snoop. That way the FB app cannot tell when it's being denied something it wants, and thus it cannot arbitrarily decide not to work for that reason.<p>It's critically important that by default apps should <i>not be allowed to know</i> when they are being denied access to private data.