JMaximus
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Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation - The New York Times
When will people realize they are being rolled by big data collections.
Me I trust the Govt more than Big Bus on protecting my privacy
I participate on Facebook knowing it's one giant data-accumulation ****-show, and act accordingly. Anybody who writes anything on Facebook or on any of their other platforms that they want to be private are in for a rude awakening.
Where it gets simply unfair is with the apps that aren't known to be owned by Facebook.
In any case, I hope FB gets its ass nailed to the wall. It's such an unapologetically evil company.
Many people are angry these tech companies like Google and Facebook are collecting our information but let's not forget, government has been collecting our information forever.
I trust tech companies more than I do the government. Tech companies like FB and Google have a history of making a profit. The government does not.
I have an account but don't use my real name or any identifiable information. Anything I post, I post knowing that it could be used by a third party. There is zero privacy there.
Has anyone noticed that, over the years, we have basically transitioned all of our important communications - news media, personal contacts, private messages, information of all kinds - to private corporations? That's really what social media has done. I know people who won't even communicate by e-mail anymore, they do everything on Facebook. (It's the reason I have an account, so I can get in touch with these people.) Even our President "tweets" his updates now.
How can the First Amendment really function properly in a private environment???
Well Big Bus, data mining is to make money.
The invasion of ones life is immense. An open human market and what one can do with all that info.
Depends on who you want to have that information.
Businesses will use the information to sell and advertise to you.
How does history show governments use their citizens' most intimate details?
Given a sufficiently large data base, the inclusion or exclusion of a single individual becomes almost totally irrelevant.
Do you honestly believe that Facebook's data collection is limited to its website and apps? :doh
If you're talking about the cookies that track you from site to site, I have anti-trackers for those.
I'm not talking about cookies, those are to keep the people with anti-trackers thinking they are "safe".
And you can prove this?
Depends, are you able to google 'fingerprinting'?
I know what fingerprinting is.
I don't have a good answer for that since there are only so many ways I can defeat fingerprinting (canvas blockers that spoof fingerprints have limited effectiveness). But if you're going down that route (and to be fair there's no reason you shouldn't) then you'd have to confront the entire problem of fingerprinting than just Facebook.
Unless that individual is you.
And the fact remains that "you" (as an individual) are still almost totally irrelevant to the people putting together the data bases.
So I'm brainwashed because I question having a corporate intermediary as our means of conveying all our information? Ok there.
Depends on in what category you find yourself...
Jeff Bezos has a $600 million deal with the CIA, owns the Wa Post and sits on the Defense Innovation Advisory Board. ME thinks Facebook is not really a threat.
Also, you talk crap about Facebook, there is no retaliation. You try to bring up the crimes within the United States government, they will throw you in jail via the Espionage Act
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