Sep 24, 2018
Facebook is in trouble again, this time with Apple, having another app pulled off from the App Store.
Find out more as Craig talks with Scott Spradling on WGIR.
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Airing date: 09/24/2018
Facebook Had Another App Pulled From The Apple Store
Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, everybody. Good morning. I had kind of a fun weekend this weekend. I had one of my daughters and her husband fly in from Europe where they're living. And we had a very early Thanksgiving even for Canadians, right, which comes up in late October. But it was fun. It was great. A bit of a family reunion. I always loved those things. Well, it looks like Jackie the might have been out doing the family reunion thing as well, because this morning. sitting in for him was Scott Spradling. And of course, we had Justin in as well. And we talked a little bit about Facebook. They just had another app pulled from the Apple App Store. And we talked about why we're carrying it through the morning this morning. And this segment could be just can't we all just get along
Unknown 0:51
it. We're going to do a little tech talk here. I'd like to welcome
our guest, Craig Peterson. Craig, thank you so much for joining us.
And let's get started right away here where it says like Facebook
and Apple aren't getting along too terribly well. Some
Unknown 1:03
violation of data gathering rules by Facebook. What's happening?
Hey, good morning, guys. Yeah, Facebook's been in trouble.
Recently. As you'll recall, of course, they men managed to get
themselves in front of Congress, which seems to be happening more
and more with people. But they got in front of Congress because
they were taking our data and doing things that maybe they should
have been doing. We know about the investigations in the Facebook
and the Russians trying to influence the election. But what you're
referring to right now Scott is really kind of interesting because
Facebook has violated some new rules Apple has started enforcing
lately though, yes, trouble once again, these rules have to do with
something known as a VPN. Now I'm putting together a masterclass
for people. In fact, if you check your email for me over the
weekend and text as well, I'm asking people, what do they want to
learn? What do they need to know that help their business out? And
the number one answer is VPN. Now, these are virtual private
networks. They're designed typically to stop other people from
listening in to what you're doing. Okay, so Scott, for instance,
you go to a normal website on your computer, and let's say you're
using Comcast or maybe it's Verizon or someone else, they know
where you're going online, but they don't have access to the data
that you have. And that's important if you're doing banking or
business transaction, your other things because think about it, if
you ever sat in the coffee shop and use a VPN or maybe use their
wireless, right, definitely, yeah, all the time. Yeah, everybody
does, right? It's pre-internet, right over the Wi-Fi, why wouldn't
you use it, but most people aren't aware that some of these coffees
off wireless Wi-Fi hotspots and the same things true for even some
little bit fancier business type networks can be monitored and are
being monitored. So this your business person, the safest thing to
do is use one of these virtual private networks. So even though
you're taking their hospitality, you're using their basic internet
access, they can't monitor anything you're doing, they cannot steal
your information. All attorney turned on Facebook's got Facebook
bought a VPN company called on on on Apple protect, you'll see it
in the store on Apple, or when a vo and Facebook's been offering
that as a VPN for people so that you can safely use Facebook
because there's a lot of information you put up there. You probably
don't want people poking in. And maybe you have private pages and
things that the photos happen all the time. Well, Facebook, a VPN
has been spying on people, which is the exact opposite of what you
want a VPN to do. So it's been tracking everything you do online.
They're using that data. They're selling it to their advertisers
and Apple because they are concerned about your privacy actually,
remove the Facebook VPN software from the App Store because
Facebook is spying on you,
Unknown 4:31
Craig at this point, should we assume Facebook is spying on us all
the time? If I if I talk about let's say like a Twix bar in my
phone is nearby. And when I open up Instagram, which is owned by
Facebook, suddenly I have an advertisement for Twix. It's amazing.
Should we assume Facebook's always spying on us?
Unknown 4:47
Well, Justin, I think you can assume that almost everybody is there
were even accusations. You might remember over the last year that
some of these apps were using the microphone in your device to
listen in on you. It just having a device with you. When you walk
into a store tells a retailer like that what Walmart or you name
it, it tells a retailer you've been here before and your phone was
being used to track you as you walk through the store. Now Apple
has blocked that as well. That type of tracking. But you know,
bottom line, Justin, you're right. When you are using something for
free. Guess what? It's not really free wouldn't when you're using
Facebook. Again. People remember Facebook, you are not the customer
Facebook. You're not paying them a dime. You are Facebook's
product. So anything you're doing Facebook users to monetize. You
are the product here.
Unknown 5:48
Craig Peterson. A very important lesson here in tech talk this
morning, Craig, thank you so much for joining us. And this morning.
And even though we've probably amped up everyone's paranoia, this
is a really important warning for folks the true I understand.
That's right, it is correct. Thanks so much and have a great
day.
Unknown 6:03
Take care guys. All right. Thank you.
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