Look at how the NYT portrays the Blackberry Hub view as having access to the FB data required to render your feed, in order to render your FB feed... and equating it to a third party app having the same level of access.
For starters, a user agent requires that you enter your FB username and password in order to function.
If they rendered a Facebook feed through a browser the exact same data would have passed over the network, and the device would have had the same level of access to that data.
It is sloppy reporting and a disservice to the non-technical community to equate an embedded user agent with a third party app.
You seem to think the NYT wrote an article discussing the finer details of whether we can trust our personal devices to keep all the private data that flows through them. What I read seemed more like a sloppy hit-job on Facebook because it’s a popular punching bag of late.
Look at how the NYT portrays the Blackberry Hub view as having access to the FB data required to render your feed, in order to render your FB feed... and equating it to a third party app having the same level of access.
For starters, a user agent requires that you enter your FB username and password in order to function.
If they rendered a Facebook feed through a browser the exact same data would have passed over the network, and the device would have had the same level of access to that data.
It is sloppy reporting and a disservice to the non-technical community to equate an embedded user agent with a third party app.
You seem to think the NYT wrote an article discussing the finer details of whether we can trust our personal devices to keep all the private data that flows through them. What I read seemed more like a sloppy hit-job on Facebook because it’s a popular punching bag of late.