Breitbart: Sandy Parakilas, a former Facebook platform operations manager, claimed the company’s “horrifying” misuse of user data was routine, and that Facebook preferred to have “no idea” what third parties were doing with the freely available data.
In their report, the Guardian noted that “hundreds of millions of Facebook users are likely to have had their private information harvested by companies that exploited the same terms as the firm that collected data and passed it on to Cambridge Analytica.”
“My concerns were that all of the data that left Facebook servers to developers could not be monitored by Facebook, so we had no idea what developers were doing with the data,” claimed Parakilas. “It has been painful watching… Because I know that they could have prevented it.”
“Once the data left Facebook servers there was not any control, and there was no insight into what was going on,” he continued, adding, “Facebook was in a stronger legal position if it didn’t know about the abuse that was happening.”
This is why you should constantly game Facebook with posts that express the opposite of what you actually believe at least half the time.
FB’s privacy statement says in no uncertain terms that any data gathered on you will be sold and used for marketing purposes. Why is there suddenly concern over this?
When something is free, you are the product.
Not on Facebook. Never have been, never will be. For this very reason.
He is telling everyone to delete their account.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5526183/Co-founder-WhatsApp-says-delete-Facebook.html
I confess I made the mistake of joining FB many years ago. After a month, I bailed. Zuckerbeg, one of the most untrustworthy men in our country.
This guy is telling everyone to delete their account. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5526183/Co-founder-WhatsApp-says-delete-Facebook.html
eternal cracker p- That’s true. But the apps must also notify you the second you click on their app that they are using/taking your info, but FB is letting them collect without yours or FB’s knowledge. And FB has no list of app owners to show anyone when they are asked about them.
FAZEbook?! Is that thing STILL around?! 🙄
(NOT for LONG… 😉 )
Not joining Foolbook, ever. Increases the risk personal info is mined for identity fraud. Thinking of cancelling LinkedIn soon.
For this reason, I was very unhappy when Robert Mercer and his super PACs moved from another R candidate to supporting Trump. Cambridge Analytica is the key player in exploiting FB users and their data.
I wrote a few extensive posts in the winter of ’15 (I think) about having done some research on how the D’s were using social media to persuade people to their views and GOTV. The process is extremely surgical and hard-hitting. At the time I was worried that conservatives were too far behind the Left in using social media platforms to GOTV. But after I read how Cambridge, via FB, had developed a benign looking “survey” on Breitbart, and how they were using that data, I was thoroughly creeped out by it. People were unaware that by taking a quick online survey at a trusted site like Breitbart they were feeding Cambridge’s analytics and giving them info enabling them to access their data on FB and start feeding everyone specific messages that seemed to oddly relate to their other data on FB. Too Brave New World for me.
I thought Facebook was a ” Horrifying ” Idea from the onset !
I’ll be forwarding this to my oldest, the cop. He spent about 5 minutes each the last two gatherings trying to get me to join FB. Did his best to ridicule the idea you are exposing yourself, even though that hasn’t been point #1 for me. Though that should be enough for anyone, IMO.
It’s stupid. My last GF was wonderful while we were together, but it’s over. Shooting someone – and killing him – in a fit of paranoid schiz, and the state taking care of you afterwards, can do that to a relationship.
She follows my family on FB from a state mental hospital. Congratulating my sons as they post milestones. Like #2 buying a house, my grandchildren’s school activities, etc.
An aunt of theirs went off the rails last year and now she’s posting crap and spewing insults at my sons because they aren’t buying into her BS any more. She turned “swinger”, divorced a good man to do that, and wonders why my boys don’t want her around their kids anymore.
I had to be shown screen captures to see what she did. Not pretty. Very mean spirited, to say the least. So my sons went from proxy sons of hers to castaways through all that interaction in the last year.
This is why I don’t do FB. I have no crazy coming to my phone or computer. from it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5528785/Facebook-track-delete-account.html