Posted on 03/18/2018 12:24:34 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden ripped Facebook in a tweet Saturday after the social media giant suspended Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm which worked worked for President Trump’s campaign.
Facebook accused the firm on Friday of not deleting data it had improperly harvested from Facebook users, which number in the tens of millions, but Snowden pinned the blame squarely on Facebook and lumped in other social media companies for being just as reckless.
"Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as 'surveillance companies,'" Snowden said. "Their rebranding as 'social media' is the most successful deception since the Department of War became the Department of Defense."
"Facebook makes their money by exploiting and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions, far beyond the scant details you voluntarily post," Snowden said earlier in the day. "They are not victims. They are accomplices."
Cambridge Analytica on Saturday denied any wrongdoing, issuing a statement that said the firm "fully complies" with Facebook's terms of service,
The ensuing uproar has prompted at least one lawmaker, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, reportedly asked Cambridge Analytica last fall to surrender emails from any of its employees who worked for the Trump campaign. The firm complied to the request.
Facebook has already taken heat for spreading "fake news" during the election and promised changes.
Last year Facebook handed Mueller its findings regarding Russian Facebook ads, revealed when the company announced $100,000 was purchased for ads from June 2015 to May 2017 by a Russian "troll farm" called the Internet Research Agency, which has promoted pro-Russian propaganda. The money was connected to approximately 3,000 ads and 470 "inauthentic accounts and pages."
Mueller later indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for meddling in the 2016 presidential election, those who were part of the Internet Research Agency.
Snowden was granted asylum in Russia back in 2013 after he leaked secret information from the National Security Agency's surveillance programs and has been there ever since.
Read FB and Linkedin’s privacy policy, specifically paragraphs 3 & 4 (as of a few years ago), when you log in to them, you give them the right to ANYTHING on your computer that they can access.
That’s how they send emails to EVERYONE on your email contact list. BEYOND CREEPY.
They can still figure out who you are with your debit/credit card. It’s just easier to tie it together with a loyalty card
That is sad... and once they are on the net.. you can’t “delete” :/
According to Snopes, what is false?
Your word "this" needs to be link-enabled to go to the Snopes post in question, preferably with a short synopsis of exactly what Snopes said.
BTTT
Yeah, I forgot the /sarc tag. Sorry !
Thanks for the easy/simple way to handle Facebook or as Nancy Reagan used to say, “Don’t do it!”
Easy to fix Facebook, everybody drop their national narcissistic behavior. The behavior of needing to tell every one about all aspects of yourself & daily life 7/24. If you’re not there giving up “the goods” Facebook has nothing to sell. Remember you are Facebook’s product! Recover a sense of privacy and nothing needs to be done. Otherwise stop complaining! Facebook is the equivalent of standing on your roof stark naked and flashing your privates at the neighbor aunties! And then complaining when the pictures are sold!
Don’t like it! Don’t do it!
The architects of Facebook and the deep state deserve all the blame. Not regular Americans.
The migration from MySpace to Facebook was a Government funded sheep drive.
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