Posted on 12/21/2018 5:44:40 AM PST by blam
Out of the major tech companies, people trust Facebook the least with their personal information. Amazon and Twitter come in a distant second and third, with 8 percent of people saying they trust these companies the least with their personal information.
As Statista’s Sarah Feldman shows below, five times more people place Facebook as the least trustworthy company to handle their personal information when compared to Amazon and Twitter.
Infographic: Facebook Loses the Public's Trust | Statista
Reports recently revealed that Facebook had hired a communications firm to do opposition research against George Soros to traffic anti-Semitic attacks against the progressive philanthropist after he made disparaging remarks against the company, and just this week, Facebook was accused of providing private user data to some of America’s, China’s, and Russia’s largest technology firms.
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GWP = Gateway Pundit
And there you have it.
If people are mentally challenged that they post all kinds of personal information up and down Facebook, then they deserve what they get. It is has been empirically demonstrated and publicly documented that Facebook is completely untrustworthy.
On the other hand, I am not above exploiting Facebook for all it’s worth. I will leverage Facebook for all I can extract from their platform on a business and professional level to enrich myself.
“More people trust the calamari at a bris than trust Facebook right now.”
-Kennedy
CIRCA JULY 2018-—Facebook suspends analytics firm investigating data use
The Hill | 07/20/18 | John Bowden / FR Posted by yesthatjallen
Facebook has suspended a Boston-based analytics firm as the company probes the types of data the firm harvested from the Facebook platform and whether Crimson Hexagon’s contracts with the U.S. government...... and its nonprofit tied to Russia’s government...... violate company policies.
Representatives for Facebook told the WSJ that the company was previously unaware of some of the contracts held by the firm. Crimson Hexagon, advertises itself as the holder of more than one trillion social media posts scraped from Facebook.........and other social media sites.
“Facebook has a responsibility to help protect people’s information, which is one of the reasons why we have tightened” access to users’ personal information, Facebook’s VP for partnerships Ime Archibong told the Journal. He added that Facebook allows firms like Crimson Hexagon to produce “anonymized insights for business purposes.”
A separate spokesman for the company told the Journal that “based on our investigation to date, Crimson Hexagon did not obtain any Facebook or Instagram information inappropriately.”
Crimson Hexagon’s chief technology officer Chris Bingham told the Journal that his company does not collect private information, adding that they are “working together to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.” The two companies plan to meet in the upcoming days.
U.S. government agencies paid Crimson Hexagon more than $800,000 for 22 separate contracts in the past four years, according to the Journal. The company has also worked with companies based in foreign countries including Russia and Turkey, the Journal reported.
Facebook responded to a firestorm of criticism earlier this year when it was revealed that another firm, Cambridge Analytica, had obtained the personal information of tens of millions of users without their knowledge or consent. The firm worked with the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, though it says it did not use the collected data during that time.
NOTE: TRUMPS’S HUD COMPLAINT NOW IN MOTION SAYS: Facebook mines extensive user data and classifies its users based on protected characteristics. Facebook’s ad targeting tools then invite advertisers to express unlawful preferences by suggesting discriminatory options. Among those options are physical disabilities, parents with children and even religious practices — advertisers are allowed to show their ads only to people Facebook deems interested in “Jesus” or the “Christian Church,” for example. Those practices could violate the Civil Rights Act, HUD said in the complaint, dated August 13.
Several ways to do it have already been discussed. It is entirely possible that an entity defining "free speech"
and social media's exclusionary practices may have violated federal laws that may include, but not be limited, to:
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government for funding (may involve several felonies and could include forgery);
<><> 18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to documents required by ERISA enacted 1974 and other possible offenses including civil and/or criminal RICO violations.
<><> 18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)18 U.S.C. §1001 (making false Statements to Agents of the US Government,
<><> 18 U.S.C. §241(Conspiracies Against Civil Rights). Violation of Civil Rights under Color of law and conspiracy. Conspiring with others to violate 4th amendment rights.
<><> Possibly full investigations centering on RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because (1) the persons (2) were employed by or associated with a public enterprise (3) that engaged in or affected interstate commerce and that (4) the persons operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a “pattern” (6) of racketeering activity, and (7) the taxpayers were injured by reason of the “pattern” of racketeering activity.
<><> Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §2 41 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional mandates in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.
Taxpayers should demand the following agencies commence investigations at once:
<><> FBI — Wire Fraud Division
<><> IRS-Fraud Unit
<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,
<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.
<><> DOJ’s Criminal Division— Public Integrity Section
<><> DOJ Criminal Division—Organized Crime and Gang Section.
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As does google. The good news is the patents expire 20 years after date of filing.
Intelligence operation. Classic shell company. Recruitment at routine recruitment college for State and sister agency. Utilized by Obama... Utilized by State Department Public Affairs in all embassies and consulates. Coupled with Telecoms... Non remove able phone batteries and ONSTAR capable vehicles.... BOOM!
Thats a giant joke. They were only angry that conservatives found a normal way to use FB. It had nothing to do with Russians, privacy, or anti semitism towards Soros.
Everything they claim to be apologizing for is that something benefited conservatives
Liberals go ballistic when the discover conservatives are smarter than them.
“And yet the subscriber base has increased 10% from last year.”
yeah, but how many are real people, and not just bots and fakes ...
Enough. When you’re at 2.27 BILLION subscribers even if 10% are fake and bots it’s still nonmaterial.
I’ve never trusted them.
Can’t discuss politics on NextDoor...most of what’s here on FR would be banned
True, but community events, who does what, and such are fair game, can’t speak to any given community, but here it’s very civil (see also, no politics!)
You might be on the right track here... Dug into the background of key players at Myspace and it looks like they are conservatives. I actually have an account from a LONG time ago I forgot about. You get this rolling and I’m in. It very well could go viral like the go fund me raiser did. :)
I have been trying for a few months now.
Everybody is stuck on FB........................
But after going there it looks like they cater to entertainers most of them lefties. I see nothing about politics yet so far.
“When you’re at 2.27 BILLION subscribers even if 10% are fake and bots it’s still nonmaterial.”
however, it IS significant when over half the accounts are fake, because the signal to noise ratio becomes overwhelming:
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