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How to ‘poison’ your data before you delete Facebook
The Daily Dot ^ | 29-Mar-2018 | Christina Bonnington

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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: facebook; righttobeforgotten; zuckerburg
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To: ptsal
"... 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."

This is intended for people leaving Facebook, keep THAT in mind.

If you're leaving, who gives a rat's patootie whether you violate their terms of service or not???

21 posted on 03/31/2018 9:48:22 AM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: What would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: ptsal

Just for fun, I just went in and deleted my High School and changed my college.


22 posted on 03/31/2018 9:49:49 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (DACA is going to be a riot!)
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To: ptsal

My thoughts, interest, and who I am belong to ME. The law should be protecting me from unwanted intrusions from others who wish to profile, blackmail, or profit off of me being who I am. The answer is to apply the fourth amendment to all internet activities and force Facebook, Google, and others to pay restitution to everyone they have maintained data on. Send me MY check.


23 posted on 03/31/2018 9:52:25 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: ptsal
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.

They'd ban you for doing this?

I'm not seeing the downside...

24 posted on 03/31/2018 9:55:27 AM PDT by null and void ("We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?" ~ Joseph Stalin)
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To: ptsal

BFL


25 posted on 03/31/2018 9:56:08 AM PDT by REDWOOD99 ("Everyone should pay taxes. Everyone should pay the same rate.)
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To: CGASMIA68
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 have a "fake" account too, mostly so I can use the FR "beta site" FB page. I always access it from behind a VPN. So far, no problems.

26 posted on 03/31/2018 9:59:36 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: ptsal

For later action.


27 posted on 03/31/2018 10:02:33 AM PDT by matthew fuller (Thank God for Donald J. Trump- El Presidente Por La Vida !!)
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To: matthew fuller

I changed everything to make me a left wing whack job. So it looks like 6 years ago I was conservative and there was a change in my ideology. Next up is my gender reassignment. I am going to identify as a golden retriever named pickles.


28 posted on 03/31/2018 10:14:23 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (What is a Blue City? First world cities run by third world politicians.)
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To: ptsal

I don’t use Facebook much, and I put minimal information in it, and set the privacy level so that my information is available only to FB friends (all 7 of them). I liked a few pages, mostly scientific organizations.

So I get email with a lot of science spam, for instance, how to keep up with HIPAA changes, or offering webinars on new lab techniques. Plus, I get emails for male singles in my area and shady offers for fake viagra. It appears that my online persona is a middle aged gay scientist with ED.

I’m actually okay with that.


29 posted on 03/31/2018 10:15:43 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Oratam

bkmk


30 posted on 03/31/2018 10:20:29 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: Alas Babylon!

thanks. that was scary. I was on sites I forgot I signed up on.

I made the vikingkitties - Freeper Madness 2008 blog...should I be proud or ashamed ?

what is worse, is, if you just commented on a site or thread that has images, google shows those images as if they were yours


31 posted on 03/31/2018 10:20:45 AM PDT by stylin19a (Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: ptsal
Revelations?

Apparently some reporters and many members of the public are finally realizing what has been known for many years.

32 posted on 03/31/2018 10:26:17 AM PDT by snarkpup (Fake news is one-half of the problem. Fake education is the other half.)
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To: ptsal

You should provide fake data to your credit card and banks accounts.
When the ask for your mothers name, make something up.
When they ask where you went to high school, also make something up.
If they ask where you met your spouse, tell them Fiji or Ceylon, whatever.
Write it down for when they ask in 6 months or you won’t remember it, but it does make breaking into your account hard for anyone who isn’t you.


33 posted on 03/31/2018 10:42:37 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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BFL


34 posted on 03/31/2018 10:59:43 AM PDT by Darth Mall
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To: Fred Nerks

Ping!


35 posted on 03/31/2018 11:03:17 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: ptsal

The previous posts have been already captured. Changing the lastest version of them will not prevent FB from mining all the old stuff.
FB’s business model is to claim that the site is free, and then sell private information to all who will pay. There is no way to fool it, except to post garbage in the first place.
Nothing is free.
This won’t work.


36 posted on 03/31/2018 11:15:54 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: stylin19a

“I made the vikingkitties -”

Hey... me, too! About a year ago, I guess. I’d never heard of that site, but an angel FReeper clued me in via FReepmail that I was a topic there. I checked it out. Extremely strange.


37 posted on 03/31/2018 11:26:41 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: BuffaloJack

I always use fake data. Use your favorite cartoon characters names or zoo animals for family members names. My mom’s maiden name is Giraffe. Always liked giraffes.My grade school was in Thailand, and my high school in Germany. My Address is down the street from where the Obama’s vacation in Hawaii. Nice neighborhood, /sarcasm. My data is worth a lot /more sarcasm.


38 posted on 03/31/2018 12:00:31 PM PDT by cyberstoic
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To: Republican Wildcat
...and not set your facebook profile to “public”

Thousands of advertisers and FB "moderators" have access to your data even if it's "private"!
39 posted on 03/31/2018 12:08:06 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: ptsal
THERE NEEDS TO BE A ONE-CLICK EXIT PLAN: The-Right-To-Be-Forgotten.

Amen to that...

40 posted on 03/31/2018 12:32:20 PM PDT by GOPJ (.A special prosecutor is not appointed to criminalize political differences. Alan Dershowitz)
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