alt Hacker News> And the commenter aren't wrong when they blame the administration. They wouldn't be wrong to blame previous administrations either. But the previous administrations aren't in power right now
They are wrong. The current administration did not make a call to widen the permissions or make it intentionally overly broad.
> This pretty much insinuates Biden (and Trump v1, and Obama, and Bush) didn't fix it.
Why do you believe the president is responsible? Could be just a lazy contractor.
> The current administration did not make a call to widen the permissions or make it intentionally overly broad.
Maybe not. But are they not responsible for an app that literally markets itself as the official federal govt app? If Meta sold FB to me am I not responsible for the algorithms that I now own, that perpetuates misinformation?
> Why do you believe the president is responsible? Could be just a lazy contractor.
Obviously the president is not deploying code. But doesn't mean the president gets a free pass. If I did shitty work for my employer and deployed a rootkit to production, I get fired but my employer is still responsible. If they want to be absolved of responsibility, they can always unpublish it while they get stuff fixed and acknowledge the issue.