Announcing the start of the 'facebook is evil' ping list:
This is the Facebook Is Evil ping list.
If you'd like to be on or off this list, please click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.
Posted on 04/14/2018 8:55:50 AM PDT by rktman
When I downloaded a copy of my Facebook data last week, I didn’t expect to see much. My profile is sparse, I rarely post anything on the site, and I seldom click on ads. (I’m what some call a Facebook “lurker.”)
But when I opened my file, it was like opening Pandora’s box.
With a few clicks, I learned that about 500 advertisers — many that I had never heard of, like Bad Dad, a motorcycle parts store, and Space Jesus, an electronica band — had my contact information, which could include my email address, phone number and full name. Facebook also had my entire phone book, including the number to ring my apartment buzzer. The social network had even kept a permanent record of the roughly 100 people I had deleted from my friends list over the last 14 years, including my exes.
There was so much that Facebook knew about me — more than I wanted to know. But after looking at the totality of what the Silicon Valley company had obtained about yours truly, I decided to try to better understand how and why my data was collected and stored. I also sought to find out how much of my data could be removed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Unless you hide you hide your IP address, they got you.
Seems with all the technology ......why does something I say here have to stay on the net for others outside this forum, to be able to see? I always thought computers were the start of something bad.
Technology gets more evil then good because humans are unpredictable.
So he’s surprised that Facebook had the information that he entered into the website.
It may really be one of the worst, but it's exponentially smaller than Google(from the article). And don't disregard the Mormon Church, either.
Will do Sir.
When you download what they have on you, bam!, they just got another time and event to enter into your file. Just accept “they” know everything. Enter a few more outlandish likes for a bit of payback.
oh yes
Your phone - or your PC/laptop mic can be “on” too.
On the first, didn’t you read between my lines? ;)
As for the latter, pun accidentally intended, yes.
Announcing the start of the 'facebook is evil' ping list:
This is the Facebook Is Evil ping list.
If you'd like to be on or off this list, please click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.
Lot of info here-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin
Yes, there is no delete. Except on the user’s end and even then, not always.
It’s funny when people “delete” stuff on their computer. Or so they think. Not until that area is overwritten. At a minimum.
I learned a great way to get rid of pesky phone calls from an ER Doc when I was delivering His Golf Cart one morning after He had worked a Night Shift.
I unloaded his golf cart and put it in the garage the phone rang so He says excuse me just a minute and he goes picks up the phone handset, listens for a few seconds and asked them to hold on please, He puts the phone down goes over to shelf and picks up one of those compressed air horns goes back picks up the phone and blasts the airhorn in the mouthpiece on the phone and hangs up on them. He says that they very rarely call back;)
[This is the Facebook Is Evil ping list.]
Oh sure ... that’s what you’d LIKE us to believe!!
(lol)
Bkmk and Thank You for the info.
Even that which was over-written was already captured, in the ether.
Over writing is a pacifier designed for us. “They” already “stored” that which was overwritten.
Unfortunately it would be very difficult to enforce given the distributed nature of the data and the fact that it may actually be residing in Calcutta or Guangzhou. I'm not sure it is possible to prevent it from being gathered, analyzed, or traded, at least at this point. Even multiple identities may be linked by, say, a street or IP address. It may be possible to punish companies or other institutions for using it. For that we'd need an honest broker, and unfortunately what we are now learning about corruption in the FBI is very discouraging regarding the gathering and illicit sharing of nominally private information. That has, unfortunately, been going on longer than computers have existed. In 24 hours information taken from an attorney's office turned up being blasted out shamelessly via the Wall Street Journal and CNN. These are not honest brokers, nor will any privacy movement gain any traction among those who are already in such gross violation.
Ya wanna be on the ping list? Free beer every Friday :)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.