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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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???
Just for fun, I just went in and deleted my High School and changed my college.
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.
They'd ban you for doing this?
I'm not seeing the downside...
BFL
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.
For later action.
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.
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.
bkmk
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
Apparently some reporters and many members of the public are finally realizing what has been known for many years.
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.
BFL
Ping!
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.
“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.
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.
Amen to that...
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