Issues associated with Facebook, Google and other developing applications

Running head: ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH FACEBOOK, GOOGLE AND OTHER
DEVELOPING APPLICATIONS
Issues associated with Facebook, Google and other developing applications
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ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH FACEBOOK, GOOGLE AND OTHER DEVELOPING
APPLICATIONS
1.0 Introduction
The paper is base on analyzing the issues related to Facebook, Google and developing
applications such as IoT. Facebook and Google are emerged as biggest Internet of Things (IoT).
IoT is connected things, provided physical data and processed data in cloud for delivering
business insights. It provides high opportunities of players in the business and industry. Most of
the companies are organized to focus on IoT along with connectivity of future products plus
services. Use of Facebook has psychological effects, included feelings of jealousy, stress, lack of
consideration as well as addiction to the social media. There are various problems for the
students to use of Facebook. There are privacy issues related to Facebook as some of people are
not putting their privacy as concern. People are sharing their Facebook passwords and other
details with others which cause privacy issue when third party person can have bad motive
behind it (Khan et al. 2018). Issues related to Google are included for avoidance of tax, misuse
as well as manipulation of the search results. Compilation of the data causes violation of privacy
of people as well as collaboration with Google Earth to spy on people. Security and privacy are
issues related to integration of IoT in the business organization.
2.0 Issues associated with Facebook, Google and IoT
Issues associated with Facebook
In Facebook, there is default privacy as well as security settings. There are complaints in
the past is that each time Facebook redesigns site and integrates changes in the site, the privacy
settings of Facebook is reverted back to default mode. It puts users of Facebook at risk as
information which is private is made public so that each and everyone can access to it. In fact,
users are not warned that their information is made public. Therefore, the users are at risk from
the cybercriminals as well as scammers get the information (Chatterjee 2018). There are different
complaints related to standard of Facebook plus recommended settings are too lax. Other issues
is default as well as recommended settings which provide access to the friend’s data applications
throughout information which are accessible throughout friend’s options. It is deactivated at
default along with recommended settings are to be compromised. Based on recent overhaul of
the security as well as privacy options, there is removal of the user’s control over posting of
recent activities on Facebook wall. When anyone liked the page, comment and photo, then this
particular activity is automatically posted on the wall (Ali and Asif 2018). On the personal
levels, there is uncomfortable situations as it provides too visibility to activities of Facebook by
automatic posting of the activities on walls of Facebook. It makes easier for people to track move
of Facebook as well as comments. It makes easier to recognize theft as cybercriminals are easily
profile as per the post on the pages. Automatic posts of the recent activities make it easier for
scams of Facebook and jacks to be spread.
In Facebook, there is no control of users over the news feed shown the homepage. In
automatic posting of recent activities, there is venue to spread scams along with malware as the
users are not separated top news from the friends as per groups, lists as well as pages (Nagahara

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ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH FACEBOOK, GOOGLE AND OTHER DEVELOPING
APPLICATIONS
2017). The friend finder of Facebook provides options to connect with friends by taking data
from email address as well as suggest them. Sometimes, users of Facebook complained that this
particular feature is suggested friends that they have no relation to them. Facebook games are
against security as well as privacy as it encourages users to connect with lot of people they do
not know them. Having people who do not know how to gain access to the confidential personal
information is an issue (Hogan and Piccarreta 2018). In Facebook, there are also rogue
applications. Quiz can take scam page as poll can sign to the mobile subscriptions without
knowledge, the applications can post in the Facebook wall, and then that application mines data
and sell them to the third party which can lead generation services. Facebook cannot
resourcefully control in crowd of the third party application developers. Users of Facebook as
well as rogue applications can deliver malware, abuse of the data of users and promotion of
Facebook scams.
Rogue advertisements are growing hazard to the users of Facebook. As Facebook has
inability to screen the advertisements that get in the network, the advertisements are embedded
with malicious codes which are getting throughout. For example, antivirus advertisement showed
that 9.6 million of Farmtown player’s screens are urging to download such an antivirus program
which has viruses (Roca et al. 2018). There are also fake Facebook profiles, there is
approximately 40% of the profiles are fake and formed by bots and impostors. After deactivate
of the Facebook account, Facebook cannot able to erase the data. It means when a user quits
Facebook, then the company users and sells the information to the third party advertisers and
others. Apart from mentioned privacy as well as security issues of Facebook, there are bugs
along with programming loopholes which can raise it start from time to time (Burton et al.
2018). Recent Facebook bug is caused that TechCrunch stumbled is an example where the
Facebook users view the live chat of friend with other Facebook users in real time mode.
Issues associated with Google
Criticism of Google is included avoidance of tax, misuse as well as manipulation of the
search results. There is also issue of intellectual property; concerns related to compilation of the
data can violate privacy of people in addition to collaboration with Google Earth as a result of
military to scout on them (Silverman 2017). Issues of Google raised concerns among the critics
of the company. Most of the criticism pertain issues which are not addressed by the cyber laws.
Google is accused by number of countries to avoid pay tens of billions of dollars of taxes
throughout scheme of the licensing agreements of inter company as well as transfers to the tax
havens. Change in the privacy of Google enables company to share of data across varieties of
services. Facebook is controlling 68% of $16 billion in spending of advertisement on the social
networks of US, followed by Twitter 7% in addition to LinkedIn less than 5%. Google is fallen
somewhere in other category (Puthal et al. 2017). The mobile world is critical. The users of
Smartphone tend not to go towards Google.com to search for the hotels and gifts. The users
should go for particular applications means there is no central front door towards mobile web.
Google remained at middle of the mobile computing with Android as well as popular
applications such as YouTube, Gmail; it is not controlling discovery experiences. When the
customers are started search outside of Google, then Google is not paid to help them find what
they are searching for. More activities are happened off the desktops and moved to the cell
phones as well as tablets (Linthicum 2016). Google is responded to the changes. It makes the
hardware devices powered by the voice assistant.