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Facebook is opening up its free Internet.org platform to developers, allowing them to create services to be delivered through the social network's curated and stripped down version of the internet. However, the platform is set to face yet another round of heavy criticism, as it seemingly neglects user security and privacy.
Facebook intends to manage developer created apps similarly to how Apple does with its App Store. However, part of the terms and conditions for getting an app on to Internet.org allows Facebook to track user data and share it with the government and telecom companies.
In addition to harvesting and selling off user data, Internet.org won't make use of encryption such as HTTPS, SSL or TLS. This is down to technical limitations but it also means that any potential users of the service should stay away from online banking or messaging services.
There will eventually be an Android app that can be used to access Internet.org services, which will have HTTPS enabled. However, this does not solve the security issues for non-android users. According to The Verge, Facebook is investigating ways to provide the same security measures for regular online access but a solution has not been found yet.
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KitGuru Says: According to some, Internet.org violates the core principles of an open web and as a result, it has faced quite a bit of criticism recently. Do you guys think its deserved? It does seem like Facebook needs to do more in order to protect user data with Internet.org.
Something from Facebook neglects security and privacy???
Saw it coming a mile off
The Era of Absolute Privacy is coming! No need in cookies or browsing history anymore.
I discovered and patented how to structure any data: Language has its own Internal parsing, indexing and statistics. For instance, there are two sentences:
a) ‘Fire!’
b) ‘Dismay and anguish were depicted on every countenance; the males turned pale, and the females fainted; Mr. Snodgrass and Mr. Winkle grasped each other by the hand, and gazed at the spot where their leader had gone down, with frenzied eagerness; while Mr. Tupman, by way of rendering the promptest assistance, and at the same time conveying to any persons who might be within hearing, the clearest possible notion of the catastrophe, ran off across the country at his utmost speed, screaming ‘Fire!’ with all his might.’
Evidently, that the phrase ‘Fire!’ has different importance into both sentences, in regard to extra information in both. This distinction is reflected as the phrase weights: the first has 1, the second – 0.02; the greater weight signifies stronger emotional ‘acuteness’.
First you need to parse obtaining phrases from clauses, for sentences and paragraphs.
Next, you calculate Internal statistics, weights; where the weight refers to the frequency that a phrase occurs in relation to other phrases.
After that data is indexed by common dictionary, like Webster, and annotated by subtexts.
This is a small sample of the structured data:
this – signify – : 333333
both – are – once : 333333
confusion – signify – : 333321
speaking – done – once : 333112
speaking – was – both : 333109
place – is – in : 250000
To see the validity of technology – pick up any sentence.
Do you have a pencil?
All other technologies depend on spying, on quires, on SQL, all of them, finding statistics. See IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Google and Yahoo? Apache Hadoop and NoSQL? My technology is the only one that obtains statistics from texts themselves.
Being structured information will search for users based on their profiles of structured data. Each and every user can get only specifically tailored for him information: there is no any privacy issue, nobody ever will know what the user got and read.
My technology exploits the Laws of Nature, which determine the inner construction of all Languages: I came from Analytic Philosophy, from Internal Relations Theory.
There is no sense to waste money spying on Internet anymore! For what? No commercial purpose.