Posted on 04/05/2018 3:46:17 AM PDT by C19fan
Facebook scans the contents of messages that people send each other on its Messenger app blocking any that contravene its guidelines, it has emerged.
The scandal-hit firm, still reeling from revelations surrounding Cambridge Analytica, checks images and texts to ensure they are in line with its community standards.
While the intentions behind the practice may be well-meaning, the news is likely to add to users' concerns over what the social network knows about them.
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if you gave them your phone number they might be...
Sweet, time to start suing this smug pr%% into oblivion!
Messenger is the only Facebook item I actually use. It’s a great way to keep the family close since most of my kids have left the nest.
But, I also know that anything I type, including this is probably being seen by someone other than the intended recipient.
I’ll do you one better. One day I was thinking about a somewhat obscure product, one which I’d never used or looked at before. THINKING. A few hours later, I was online and an ad popped up for that type of product.
Kinda scared me a little bit.
Publishers make BILLIONS from Facebook-directed traffic. When this collapses it is going to be ugly. Ironically the ones who will survive are the ones they throttled — and who adjusted to survive — the conservative “alternative” media
Of course they do
Are people surprised about this? EVerything you do on the Internet is tracked by someone. If you look at a product on Amazon, you see ads for similar products when you browse other sites. This is not a coincidence. When I leave for church on Sunday morning, IOS recognizes my iPhone has connected to my car, knows my habits, and alerts me the time to destination. If you are using normal apps and the regular Internet, you have no secrets.
So what? - it’s not like I’m the Secretary of State or anything...
Really? Ya think? Every keystroke you make that goes out over the net is being looked at by as many entities as can get hold of the packets. The bad news is that though nobody actually has to look at all of it, it's all being analyzed by somebody's software. The good news is that the sheer quantity, even after parsing, keyword analysis, fill rejection, etc. is still so overwhelming as to render it "non-actionable".
“If the privacy of non-members has been invaded, there ought to be hell to pay.”
They do have the technology to access your email account, such as your address book, without your consent. With that in mind, then once connected to Facebook they can probably access anything in your computer.
About 6 years ago I tried Farcebook for a couple weeks. When applying I was asked if I wanted to import my email address book so they could make them my friends (or whatever their excuse was). I denied them access. Once a member all my email contacts were shown as wanting to be my friends.
One in particular was an enemy, and when Farcebook had her name as a potential friend, I would delete it. It would be back the next day. The only way I could keep her name off was to delete it from my address book.
Keep in mind I never gave permission for them to access my email account. They never got the password. All they got was the address.
From then on I knew it was a data mining operation capable of doing just about anything. Maybe the NSA is learning a few tricks from them as well.
Joe:
Someday you decide you want to run for local office.
As your campaign starts to get under-way an anonymous envelope is delivered to your mailbox.
In it are recordings of your voice saying something you would rather the public not hear. “Get out of the race or else” the message says.
See how it can work?
Testing that theory talking about obscure items. Will see if anything pops up
They serve no purpose of public good. Manners, civility, and discretionary judgement, the foundation of decency, are being replaced with algorithms bought by bidders for our souls.
Group of phones works best. Casual conversation. Google an unrelated topic during the conversation. Then give it a days time.
While traveling to an out of the way Asian country, I opened my Facebook page to this: Good morning! Be sure to take an umbrella today as rain is expected! And, after private messaging my cell number to a friend with whom I was trying to meet up, Facebook messaged me asking if they could add my phone number to my profile. I said no. They asked three times and each time I said no. If anyone thinks there is ANY privacy on Facebook, they are delusional.
If you put something on someone’s server, you lose control of it. That includes backing up to the cloud.
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