Facebook (lack of) Privacy ? !

planegray

planegray

Redwood Original
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Lions and tigers and bears, oh My !


:wtf facebook ?


"Elizabeth Denham, the head of Britain’s Information Commission, is seeking a warrant to search the offices of consultancy Cambridge Analytica after a whistleblower revealed it had harvested the private information of millions of people to support Trump’s 2016 U.S. presidential campaign."

"Facebook says the data were harvested by a British academic, Aleksandr Kogan, who created an app on the platform that was downloaded by 270,000 people, providing access not only to their own personal data but also their friends’.

Facebook said Kogan then violated its policies by passing the data to Cambridge Analytica."

Sure, we all kinda know that our privacy is disappearing the more we use Google, Facebook, and other social media... but how much is this affecting our world ?
 
295566

295566

Numbers McGee
I don't know why anyone is surprised. To everyone with a Facebook account, you aren't the client, you're the product.

If you have the Facebook app installed on your phone, they're listening to your conversations and will sell that data to companies. Expect that you have absolutely zero privacy with today's tech...
 
S

Schnellbandit

I see 4 lights!
We've allowed companies like Goober and FecklessBook design social media and then stand back to claim that the environments they created aren't their responsibility because its the users that play in them, they are only providing a service.

We've accepted that technology and social media are solutions instead of tools and abandoned our own responsibilities because the manipulation is so quick yet slight that the only things that can compete with those we've declared are illegal to use.

There is no turning around because government, many people and essentially the way of life for so many could not exist without an immersion in the technology that drives social media interests.
 
westie

westie

Its Dethklok!
IDK, datamining my FB is like trying to figure out where I live by following me on barf. I keep everyone at arms length.
 
easter bunny

easter bunny

Amateur Hour
westie said:
IDK, datamining my FB is like trying to figure out where I live by following me on barf. I keep everyone at arms length.
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I read the article on this after Trump won. Supposedly they could analyse your "likes" and predict all sorts of things about you. Supposedly something like 10 likes and they could tell more about you than your spouse. IIRC it's the reason all FB pages now default to private because they were data mining every profile they could see.
 
planegray

planegray

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easter bunny said:
I read the article on this after Trump won. Supposedly they could analyse your "likes" and predict all sorts of things about you. Supposedly something like 10 likes and they could tell more about you than your spouse. IIRC it's the reason all FB pages now default to private because they were data mining every profile they could see.
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LOTS of new articles coming out on Cambridge Analytica... I think The Guardian has been investigating for a year on them...and recently published some of their findings ;)
 
mean dad

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And those stupid fucking quizzes that everyone takes. "What 70's Muscle Car Are You???"
Two or three of those and they have a profile and answers to basic security questions.
 
planegray

planegray

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mean dad said:
And those stupid fucking quizzes that everyone takes. "What 70's Muscle Car Are You???"
Two or three of those and they have a profile and answers to basic security questions.
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:laughing

I never understood why anyone would take one of those :wow
 
Eldritch

Eldritch

is insensitive
295566 said:
I don't know why anyone is surprised. To everyone with a Facebook account, you aren't the client, you're the product.

If you have the Facebook app installed on your phone, they're listening to your conversations and will sell that data to companies. Expect that you have absolutely zero privacy with today's tech...
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I still cannot believe people have social media on their phones. That is cray cray in the bray bray.

mean dad said:
And those stupid fucking quizzes that everyone takes. "What 70's Muscle Car Are You???"
Two or three of those and they have a profile and answers to basic security questions.
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Right? Back in my day, if you wanted to Social Engineer security info, you had to get on the phone and have a good story. These days, fucking hell.
 
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Morphine

Morphine

Team Clueless, Captain
I quit using FB in 2010. Just came back recently because most of my old friends are on it. I should've stayed quit.

This Cambridge Analytics unfolding is scary as fuck. Social media is a powerful tools in the wrong hands.

PS. Hi Piney! /wave
 
planegray

planegray

Redwood Original
Staff member
Morphine said:
I quit using FB in 2010. Just came back recently because most of my old friends are on it. I should've stayed quit.

This Cambridge Analytics unfolding is scary as fuck. Social media is a powerful tools in the wrong hands.

PS. Hi Piney! /wave
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Dude ! Good to see that you are still about :wave


Agree on the Social Media data mining/ social manipulation.

I've learned quite a bit about our behavior by reading the articles, some of this stuff really is a real wake up call :wow


“[Bannon] got it immediately. He believes in the whole Andrew Breitbart doctrine that politics is downstream from culture, so to change politics you need to change culture. And fashion trends are a useful proxy for that. Trump is like a pair of Uggs, or Crocs, basically. So how do you get from people thinking ‘Ugh. Totally ugly’ to the moment when everyone is wearing them? That was the inflection point he was looking for.”

But Wylie wasn’t just talking about fashion. He had recently been exposed to a new discipline: “information operations”, which ranks alongside land, sea, air and space in the US military’s doctrine of the “five-dimensional battle space”. His brief ranged across the SCL Group – the British government has paid SCL to conduct counter-extremism operations in the Middle East, and the US Department of Defense has contracted it to work in Afghanistan.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/20...er-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump
 
UDRider

UDRider

FLCL?
If someone installs the app to take stupid quiz and clicks ok I don't see a problem with data being used for whatever. Where FB failed is app was able to get information from users friends without their consent.
 
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