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Taken from today's 'Political Wire' online news digest and submitted for your consideration.


Brian X. Chen: “When I downloaded a copy of my Facebook data last week, I didn’t expect to see much. My profile is sparse, I rarely post anything on the site, and I seldom click on ads. (I’m what some call a Facebook ‘lurker.’)”

“But when I opened my file, it was like opening Pandora’s box.”

“With a few clicks, I learned that about 500 advertisers — many that I had never heard of, like Bad Dad, a motorcycle parts store, and Space Jesus, an electronica band — had my contact information, which could include my email address, phone number and full name. Facebook also had my entire phone book, including the number to ring my apartment buzzer. The social network had even kept a permanent record of the roughly 100 people I had deleted from my friends list over the last 14 years, including my exes.”
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This is why I left FB 7 years ago.
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This is why I left FB 7 years ago.

Beffer, I’m glad you got out when you did. You are a wise lady. Hopefully nothing you uploaded during the time you were a member will ever be used against you.

Anyone who has read the opening article to this forum and doesn’t think that is scary, needs to have their head examined. Who knows where that information could end up at or what use it could be put to. If you had information like that about someone, you may be honest and never take advantage of it, however, there are many people in this world that are not honest and would happily use such information in anyway they could if it was to their advantage. The things mentioned are about half the information anyone would need to apply for credit or a credit card in your name. Stop and think for a minute what they could do to your good credit rating or even your bank account. I have heard to many horror stories about Face Book and have absolutely NO use for that place at all. I’ve never been a member, am not now nor do I have any intentions of ever joining. You are kidding yourself if you think all you have to do is delete your account and everything will disappear, however, as you can see, that is not the case. Once you put something out on the internet, it will remain there, totally out of your control, for ever.
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Good thing I've never used or made an account on Facebook.
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You think for a second it's limited to Facebook? Google knows more about you than anything else. Every website pretty much uses cookies and registers every click you make. You know the Catchpha thingy majig where you just click to prove you're not a robot? Do you know how that works? It registers your mouse movements. Whatever you do that involves something digital, whether it's paying with your credit card or using a bus pass leaves a small bread crumb. Now think about how many bread crumbs you leave during a day. Not to mention your phone.

Facebook is bad, but they're not worse than anyone else. Google, Apple, Microsoft, all the other tech companies knows everything you do. They know what recipes you look for, what clothes you want to buy and what porn you're looking at. Privacy is a thing of the past.
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You think for a second it's limited to Facebook? Google knows more about you than anything else. Every website pretty much uses cookies and registers every click you make. You know the Catchpha thingy majig where you just click to prove you're not a robot? Do you know how that works? It registers your mouse movements. Whatever you do that involves something digital, whether it's paying with your credit card or using a bus pass leaves a small bread crumb. Now think about how many bread crumbs you leave during a day. Not to mention your phone.

Facebook is bad, but they're not worse than anyone else. Google, Apple, Microsoft, all the other tech companies knows everything you do. They know what recipes you look for, what clothes you want to buy and what porn you're looking at. Privacy is a thing of the past.


True, unfortunately. Some people like to demonize Facebook but I suspect this is an issue that predated Facebook.
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You think for a second it's limited to Facebook? Google knows more about you than anything else. Every website pretty much uses cookies and registers every click you make. You know the Catchpha thingy majig where you just click to prove you're not a robot? Do you know how that works? It registers your mouse movements. Whatever you do that involves something digital, whether it's paying with your credit card or using a bus pass leaves a small bread crumb. Now think about how many bread crumbs you leave during a day. Not to mention your phone.

Facebook is bad, but they're not worse than anyone else. Google, Apple, Microsoft, all the other tech companies knows everything you do. They know what recipes you look for, what clothes you want to buy and what porn you're looking at. Privacy is a thing of the past.

I don't have facebook.
I use duckduckgo. (I like have results that are outside my bubble, even if I sometimes have to scroll to page 3).
I clean my cookies every pc reboot, which is daily. For logging in I use my keychain.
I only have a debit card so I can get cash at the local atm. Big bonus, you don't spend money you can't spend.
Bus pass? Buy them with cash, the few times I rode public transhit. I live in a mayor dutch city, I cycle most of the times, it's faster.

My problems are still with Microsoft (yay windows for gaming) and Whatsapp (owned by faecesbook)
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I don't use facefook. I value my privacy.
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Scarier even than that, the other day I was talking about Thai food. I wasn't on my phone but I was near it. The next time I opened the browser on my phone, just a few minutes later, an ad for a Thai restaurant popped up. At first I thought "no way". But I started researching and it could have happened and not be a coincidence.
It started with a program called Alphonso I think and it gets embedded into games you might download that has access to your microphone. There are other similar programs out there but the bottom line is, your phone could be listening to you. It freaked me out! I don't believe for a second that Facebook, Google, and all those others don't have something like this.
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Not much, never been there.