Thank you for a link to a readable version of the agreement!
It looks to me like "Permitted Users" includes "contractors" like those in a compensated research panel, and thus the Facebook/Google uses are plausibly enabled under the program.
That depends on whether they entered into a contract, doesn't it?
And technically, entering a contract doesn't even require a signature – just a "meeting of the minds" to exchange considerations of value, like "my data" or "cash value gift cards". (And, these programs may have included actual signed agreements – I haven't seen strong reporting either way on that.)
I am responsible for maintaining an app for a client who has an Apple Enterprise certificate. I am a contractor so I realize that I am allowed to use the client's certificate to install the app on one or more of my devices while developing and testing. Should I need more testers, I am authorized to get other users to test the app, subject to them signing NDAs and having them under my direct supervision.
That is the extent of my allowed use of that certificate. Anyone with any sort of ethics at Facebook/Google should have realized the same. Passing out gift cards and calling users "contractors" is against the spirit and letter of the contract.
My personal belief is FB/Google would much rather take the loss of their enterprise cert rather than consider the end user contractors. For example child labor laws might come back to bite them in the ass. Also non-vetting of contractors. Some portion of these 'contractors' are going to be rather terrible people and now they have a business association with them, possibly within violation of state laws.
Yeah, agree here that I am baffled Apple just cut the cord here after reading this...this will create a backlash thats gonna hurt Apple...just thinking anti-trust
It looks to me like "Permitted Users" includes "contractors" like those in a compensated research panel, and thus the Facebook/Google uses are plausibly enabled under the program.