This is stated by George Hayward, a former employee of the company, who even tells us the internal name that this process had on Facebook: ‘Negative test’.
No friends, nor Facebook is the most respectful social network with your privacy nor is its parent company Meta the most responsible company when it comes to taking advantage of the data it collects from us, because indeed when a service is 100% freeI already said it Steve Wozniak himself (co-founder of Apple), is that we ourselves are the product.
In any case, we are not here to tell you another scandal Cambridge Analytica but something much more mundane, and that is that Facebook returns to the eye of the hurricane after the statements of a recently fired employee, who states that the mobile app of the most popular social network drains the battery of our smartphones consciously and intentionally randomly, in order to perform different tests and tests.
This former Facebook employee is called George Haywardjust as our classmates told us GizmoChinaand directly accuses the company of carry out practices of dubious legality among which is deliberately discharging phone batteries.
So what our mobiles are now an indispensable part in daily life, being used for practically all procedures, from paying in stores or businesses to getting on public transport or consulting basic information, functions for which we obviously need to have battery and not that an app is in charge of downloading it just because, ‘why potato’…
Incredible affirmation, the truth, that If confirmed, it would be the umpteenth motivation to eliminate Facebook from our lives once and for all and our cell phones.
To complete the information, Hayward commented that both the Facebook app and the Messenger app have this ability to quickly drain the battery of a device, and that this procedure is called internally ‘negative test’ (oh Negative Testingin English), being used by engineers to test functions with the users themselves as guinea pigs.
I don’t know if the end justifies the means, nor if the claim that these practices are used to test functions in order to help the masses will serve as an argument, but that they use users as impromptu ‘beta testers’ is to say the least debatable, and on that no one will be able to argue with us.
The ex-Facebook employee claims that he would have flatly refused these practicesalleging that “I told the manager: ‘This could hurt someone’, and she replied that by hurting a few we can help the great masses. However, any data scientist worth his salt will know that the first thing is not to hurt people”.
As you will expect, George Hayward has sued the company in Manhattan Federal Courtand the basis of this lawsuit is precisely that these tests could affect thousands of users preventing them from having access to your phone when they need it mostsomething that could put them in danger in situations of potential risk. Attorney Dan Kaiser claimed what “it is illegal and outrageous that someone can tamper with my phone and drain its battery”.
the matrix of Facebook has not issued any statements yet. and seems to limit himself for now to studying the lawsuit, although it seems Hayward would have plenty of evidence including internal documentation and manuals How to run these types of tests.
Quite incredible everything, really… But since I don’t use Facebook, I can’t confirm that it ever happened to me! What do you say?