Posted on 03/31/2018 9:06:30 AM PDT by ptsal
Over the past few weeks, we’ve learned a lot about Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and how Facebook uses your data. The revelations have pushed many users—including some brands and celebrities—to leave the social network altogether. Rather than simply deleting your profile or profile information, however, some are advising a slightly different tactic to protect your online identity: tainting that data.
Developer and former systems administrator Kevin Matthew published a script that goes back through your Facebook posts and edits them with randomly generated characters.
Based on his knowledge as a systems administrator, Matthew explains that “even by conservative assumptions, your data never really disappears permanently” when you deactivate or delete your Facebook account. With that in mind, the next best thing, he argues, is to go back through your history on the social network and “poison” (or otherwise obfuscate) all that data.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailydot.com ...
Mathew details his full reasoning, the technique, and how the script (which is really just a proof of concept) works in a blog post. It’s possible that the script could be a violation of Facebook’s terms of service, since it could be considered to impair or disable the proper functionality of Facebook. If you decide to give it a shot, keep that in mind.
THERE NEEDS TO BE A ONE-CLICK EXIT PLAN: The-Right-To-Be-Forgotten.
Exit FakeBook Plan
see post
Or just have not put stuff on the internet you wouldn’t want the whole world to know about you to begin with...and not set your facebook profile to “public” and not staying logged in when you weren’t using it...
Although...for those that use smart phone app and it was reporting taking your call history, location history, etc. by default, that’s another matter.
FakeBook is in turmoil.
bkmk
Don’t use FB much if at all but for photos of the grandchildren. One thing I do notice is the ten telemarketer calls I get a day tend to be spoofed with area codes from my kids. Gotta give them an “A” for effort but I don’t answer them just the same.
I have a minimal FB profile but only wish I had put in entirely false information to begin with.
Everyone should “poison” their data, but if this becomes a big enough movement as you suggest with a “one-click” way to do it - it will also “poison the well”.
Facebook makes it’s money by selling targeted ads to reach specific people. The entire foundation of that concept is that people provide truthful information - if they lie and make up crap then the value of what they have to sell is diminished. Imagine what would happen if you were paying say $500 a month for FB ads to reach people within 30 miles of your store, only to discover that half of the “people” you were paying to have your ads delivered to lived all over the country and just picked your town at random? You’d instantly want $250 back, at the very least!
If enough people poison the well, it could put Facebook out of business! Their entire business model would be damaged beyond repair.
But it's intended for people finally wising up about FB, and it's part of the "EXIT PLAN".
So, what are they going to do? Terminate the account? That's after restoring your "untainted" backup before banning you, so it's still an asset?
Prioritize your final profile/"data" for selling to the lowest of the low spammers?
Bookmark.
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I’m sure FB does daily backups or snapshot backups.
So poisoning your data does no good for yesterday’s data as they can always restore your old data if they detect that your data was poisoned before your account was deleted.
Anything you post to the Internet is their forever.
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My entire FB thing was fake.
Funny 2 days after all this crap started they told me it was suspended unless I could prove who I said I was.
Buh Bye FB till I can build a new Fake account
I hope people understand that it’s not JUST Facebook that keeps data, but all of them.
Google, Apple, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Imgur, Reddit, Tumblr, and a thousand other apps.
You can argue the nuances, and whether they admit to it or not, but if you read any EULA carefully, they always retain the right. In that case, assume they enforce the right is they only way to truly understand the extent of any possible damage to your privacy.
And let’s not forget the NSA is dumping ALL data going across the net. Unless encrypted, save packets can be read. And encryption algorithms can be broken. Also keep in mind that voice communications—telephone—are often carried over packet-switched networks nowadays and THAT data is archived with all the rest.
And remember that this site, Free Republic, is constantly scanned and indexed. Search Google on your own FReeper name and you’d be surprised. Every post is tabulated somewhere.
My solution was to create a fake persona so I can visit other Facebook pages, but I never post any real information.
So, it's pretty accurate, unless you happen to specify an attribute that's a proclivity of an extremely paranoid computer user spoofing, etc.
Yes, it's irksome. I recently inherited an older iPad, and didn't subscribed to any Apple offerings (limiting my access to apps, among other things), but I still get ads targeting my location. I reset the ad id every now and then, too.
Huh, that’s interesting. They’re stupid but not dumb ;-) But I’m sure a lot of people would create bogus accounts just to be able to harass people on FB, etc.
Good luck figuring it out. It will definitely be harder to poison what’s already been posted as others have pointed out.
Never posted just read stuff.
policy states bogus accounts will be deleted till proven other wise.
Something with name attached, electric bill DR license whatever.
They specify blacking out personal info.
Nothing at FB I give a crap about so didnt even bother.
New toss away email, new FB account when and if I get a “roundtuit”
When I buy Facebook I will split it into three. Social Media, Religion, Politics.
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