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https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-blocked-internal-ios-apps
Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps, from early releases of the Facebook app to basic tools like a lunch menu. A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and other pre-release “dogfood” (beta) apps have stopped working, as have other employee apps, like one for transportation. Facebook is treating this as a critical problem internally, we’re told, as the affected apps simply don’t launch on employees’ phones anymore.

The shutdown comes in response to news that Facebook has been using Apple’s program for internal app distribution to track teenage customers with a “research” app.

That app, revealed yesterday by TechCrunch, was distributed outside of the App Store using Apple’s enterprise program, which allows developers to use special certificates to install more powerful apps onto iPhones. Those apps are only supposed to be used by a company’s employees, however, and Facebook had been distributing its tracking app to customers. Facebook later said it would shut down the app.

This poses a huge issue for Facebook. While Apple provides other tools a company can use to install apps internally, Apple’s enterprise program is the main solution for widely distributing internal apps and services. In an email, a Facebook spokesperson said “I can confirm that this affects our internal apps.”

In a statement given to Recode, Apple said that Facebook was in “clear breach of their agreement with Apple.” Any developer that breaches that agreement, Apple said, has their distribution certificates revoked, “which is what we did in this case to protect our users and their data.” Apple declined to comment on shutting down all of Facebook’s internal apps in an email to The Verge.

Revoking a certificate not only stops apps from being distributed on iOS, but it also stops apps from working. And because internal apps by the same organization or developer may be connected to a single certificate, it can lead to immense headaches like the one Facebook now finds itself in where a multitude of internal apps have been shut down.

Apple and Facebook have already been bickering over privacy, but this is the first instance of Apple taking an action that directly shuts down some of Facebook’s activities. Last March, Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized Facebook’s handling of the Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal, saying, “I wouldn’t be in this situation” if he were running the company. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg later said the comments were “extremely glib” and spoke of Apple as a company that “work hard to charge you more.”
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Maybe they should shut down the media, as they've spent the past 3 years pushing a disinformation campaign against the president that was cooked up because it was her turn.
 
I love how "election manipulation" and "election meddling" is increasingly becoming a boogeyman amongst the globalist neoliberals and leftists.

As if the US doesn't do the same itself.

As if these social media companies are unwilling or unable to manipulate elections themselves.

Hell, I would probably say that every sovereign nation on Earth has something of an obligation to meddle in the elections of other nations in order to protect its own interests (and, potentially, the interests of its citizens).
 
Imagine being some old white woman in Kansas who runs a Facebook page for fucking Kansas flea market swaps and you find out your page got hit by Indonesian furries.

"Dan! Daaaannnnnn! Do you know what a furry is? Is that a feller with a beard? I'll call Susan and ask, she knows more 'bout these 'puters than me. Oh, Lord, where's my glasses?"
 
Israeli Jews and Far Right fighting side by side against Globalism Fueled Neoliberals.

Name Bigger Legolas/Gimli moment.
 
Iwasamwillbe said:
I love how "election manipulation" and "election meddling" is increasingly becoming a boogeyman amongst the globalist neoliberals and leftists.

As if the US doesn't do the same itself.

As if these social media companies are unwilling or unable to manipulate elections themselves.

Hell, I would probably say that every sovereign nation on Earth has something of an obligation to meddle in the elections of other nations in order to protect its own interests (and, potentially, the interests of its citizens).
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When they do it they're terrorists, when we do it we're freedom fighters.

When they campaign it's meddling, when we campaign it's educating.

When they assemble and speak it's threats of violence, when we mob their businesses and hit them with bike locks it's just punching up.

Yada, yada, yada.
 
Diabeetus said:
...Facebook said, typically posed as news organizations or other local actors in spreading information about political candidates, including in some cases from supposed leaks.

U.S. technology companies previously have shut down disinformation campaigns based in Russia, Iran and Venezuela, and experts say the tactics now are widely deployed across the world, including in the United States by domestic political actors.
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*Buzzfeed begins sweating and looking around nervously
 
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Zuckerberg and Sandberg ignore Canadian subpoena, face possible contempt vote | CNN Business

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg did not attend a hearing in Ottawa on Tuesday, despite receiving summonses from the Canadian parliament.
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Ottawa and New York (CNN Business)Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg did not attend a hearing in Ottawa on Tuesday, despite receiving summonses from the Canadian parliament.
The decision could result in the executives being held in contempt of parliament, the senior Canadian politician who sent the summons told CNN. The last time a member of the public was held in contempt by the parliament was 1913, according to the legislature's records.
Facebook instead sent two representatives from its public policy team to the hearing, which was tied to a gathering of an international committee examining Silicon Valley's impact on privacy and democracy.
Multiple lawmakers pointed out that Zuckerberg's failure to show up contradicted what he wrote in an op-ed in March when he wrote he was "looking forward to discussing them [online issues] with lawmakers around the world."

Bob Zimmer MP, the chair of the committee, slammed the executives for not attending.
"Shame on Mark Zuckerberg and shame on Sheryl Sandberg for not showing up today," he said toward the end of the meeting.In a contentious exchange, British MP Damian Collins asked why Facebook had not removed a manipulated video of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosithat went viral last week. Collins suggested that Facebook's refusal to remove the video was "irresponsible" and gave a "green light" to anyone to make false videos about politicians. YouTube removed the video.Neil Potts, Facebook's director of public policy, said the company had downranked the video, meaning it will show up in fewer people's News Feeds.


Both Zuckerberg and Sandberg received formal requests from the Canadian Parliament earlier this month. Zuckerberg and Sandberg have testified before the United States Congress on the subject.Zimmer said Monday night that Facebook had not told the committee whether its two most senior executives would be attending. He said committee members learned on CNN that Zuckerberg and Sandberg would not testify.A Facebook spokesperson disputed that on Tuesday morning, saying the company had told the committee it would be sending Kevin Chan, its head of public policy for Facebook Canada, and Neil Potts, its director of public policy, to the meeting. The spokesperson added the company had been in ongoing communication with the committee.Google and Twitter also sent representatives to address the committee, but the committee doesn't appear to have sent summons to those companies' top executives.Lawmakers from at least ten countries, including the United Kingdom and Australia, were expected to attend the meeting, which is the second of its kind. The first meeting of the committee last year in London resulted in the release of secret internal Facebook documents.

"Collectively we represent about 450 million people, it's a bigger population group than the US," Zimmer, whose committee is hosting the international meeting, told CNN Monday.
Zimmer sent both Facebook executives summonses earlier this month. He said the company had submitted alternate names of people to attend in their place, but that he wants to hear directly from the social network's top two executives. Their presence is important, he said, because, "Knowing the structure of Facebook and how it is micro-managed right from the top, any change on the platform is done through Mr. Zuckerberg or through Ms. Sandberg."
"It's not that hard to jump on a plane and make some time to hear from legislators and answer their questions," he told CNN.
The decision to hold them in contempt, Zimmer said, would be voted on by the whole of Parliament.
"Nobody is going to come with some handcuffs and arrest them, but to be held in contempt by an entire country would not serve any platform well," he added.

A Facebook (FB) spokesperson said in a statement earlier Monday: "Ultimately this is a decision for Parliament — we're not in a position to speculate. We share the Committee's desire to keep people safe and to hold companies like ours accountable. Right now we're focused on engaging in meaningful dialogue with the committee and look forward to answering their questions."
"We look forward to answering their questions and remain committed to working with world leaders, governments, and industry experts to address these complex issues," the spokesperson said.
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Zuckerberg could be held in contempt of Canadian Parliament after ignoring subpoena

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg could be held in contempt of Canadian Parliament if he continues to ignore requests from Canadian lawmakers to testify before their government, Canadian Conservative Member of Parliament Bob Zimmer said Tuesd
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg could be held in contempt of Canadian Parliament if he continues to ignore requests from Canadian lawmakers to testify before their government, Canadian Conservative Member of Parliament Bob Zimmer said Tuesday.

Canadian lawmakers voted Tuesday to issue an open-ended summons for Zuckerberg and Facebook Chief Financial Officer Sheryl Sandberg, meaning the two will face summons to appear before the Parliament the next time they step foot in Canada. If the executives fail to abide by those summons, Canadian lawmakers would vote on a motion to hold them in contempt of Parliament, Zimmer said.

If approved, that motion could result in jail time for the powerful executives, though it is unlikely it would play out that way.

“It’s only fitting that there’s an ongoing summons, so as soon as they step foot into our country they will be served and expected to [sit in front of] our committee,” said Zimmer, chairman of the Canadian House of Commons committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.

He made the announcement after Zuckerberg and Sandberg flouted a subpoena to appear before the committee during a hearing attended by international lawmakers about privacy, misinformation and hate speech. Throughout the testy event, lawmakers expressed outrage at the executives for failing to comply with the subpoena, instead opting to send Facebook's head of public policy in Canada Kevin Chan and its director of public policy Neil Potts.

Jo Stevens, a U.K. member of parliament, said at the hearing that members of the committee had crossed oceans to make it more convenient for Zuckerberg to testify. Potts said he and Chan have been tasked with representing the company.

The international hearing included representatives from countries including Ireland, Singapore, the United Kingdom and more. The lawmakers hit Chan and Potts with scathing and detailed criticisms of Facebook's business practices, including specific instances in which the platform was slow to take down hate speech or misinformation.

Representatives from Google and Twitter were also in attendance and fielded questions, but the committee did not send summons to Google CEO Sundar Pichai or Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

"Shame on Mark Zuckerberg and shame on Sheryl Sandberg for not showing up today," Zimmer said.
Zuckerberg and Sandberg's no-show marks the latest instance in which the top Facebook executives have declined to appear before governmental bodies. Zuckerberg previously declined to appear before the U.K. Parliament, infuriating top British lawmakers, and has repeated the tactic all over the world.
Canadian lawmakers on Tuesday hit Zuckerberg as they quoted from a recent op-ed in which he vowed to sit down with lawmakers looking to regulate the tech giant.

Canada's privacy watchdog last month accused Facebook of violating the country's privacy laws in its handling of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Canada's Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) vowed to take the company to court over its findings.
The OPC had launched the investigation last year after it was revealed that political consulting group Cambridge Analytica had obtained data on millions of Facebook users without their knowledge.
Facebook has said it does not agree with the OPC's conclusions.
A Facebook spokesperson after the meeting on Tuesday said, "We are grateful to the Committee for the opportunity to answer their questions today and remain committed to working with world leaders, governments, and industry experts to address these complex issues. As we emphasized, we share the Committee's desire to keep people safe and to hold companies like ours accountable.”
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I hope he sends them whatever the Zuckerberg equivalent of Null's reply to the New Zealand police is.
 
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