662
Nothing pulls its iMessage app from the Play Store following privacy disaster
(www.androidpolice.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
662 points (97.7% liked)
Technology
59421 readers
2817 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Giving your iCloud credentials to a third party is already sketchy. It gives them the ability to read your messages, documents, health records, etc.
Nothing / Sunbird basically said “trust me bro, we’re super secure.” Then they did this right out of the gate.
What a bunch of morons.
I wholeheartedly agree with you, but in today's world, that doesn't matter to most people. I work in banking and the amount of people who willingly give their whole ass banking information to third parties is insane to me. I'm not talking like just their debit card number or their account and routing numbers, like legitimately their online banking sign in info, and they don't see any potential risk at all
It doesn't help that banks are normalizing this.
I recently began changing banks. To authorize a transfer from one to the other, my only option was to login via a popup. No place to specify account details just "log into your account to give us permissions". Fortunately the new bank is competent so I did it from that side, but it is still normalized insanity
What’s even worse is typically in the terms of those 3rd party sites, they say they can monitor your balances and transactions until you tell them to stop.