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by fsociety 1854 days ago
This is likely the truth, code blindly extracts metadata from the photos without being aware of the privacy permissions. Doesn’t excuse it but outlines that a developer can have good intent but bad outcomes.
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Exactly. FB have depleted any benefit-of-the-doubt but I never attribute to malice what can most accurately be explained by stupidity or complexity