You mean those 'Which Disney princess are you?' personality apps on Facebook that asked for your email address/friend graph/list of your likes/browsing history weren't run by people who wanted statistics on Disney princesses? Holy shit.
— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) March 20, 2018
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether the use of personal data from 50 million Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica violated a consent decree the tech company signed with the agency in 2011, Bloomberg reported Monday.
The probe follows a weekend of turmoil for the social media giant. Reports this weekend said the research firm improperly gained access to the data of more than 50 million Facebook users.
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FacePlant.
D’oh.
My son-in-law is a computer tech at a college. He refuses to use social media for this very reason. Text message is the closest he comes but he is still wary of cyber spying on his phone.
Don't have the facebook. Still living a good life.
At a recent meeting with my motorcycle riders club, I brought up the point that we weren't doing a good job of communicating with our members. The president says, "How can we do better? Everything is on our facebook page."
I asked, "What about the people who don't use facebook?"
"Who doesn't use facebook?"
"Well, for example, me."
The shocking thing to me is that this is not a group of high schoolers but rather a group of mostly men and mostly over 50.
...or you can have some fun. Give complete bullshit answers. A company I worked for has an HR department that loves surveys and personality testing/typing. Then they sent the union and management supervisors on a course to teach them how to motivate staff based on the data. My foreman mockingly called it "charm school" and told us it just was a nice sounding way to teach people to manipulate each other and he wanted no part of it.
Why make it easy for people to manipulate you?
If anyone watched the TV show, "Person of Interest" (and you should have), there was an episode in which one character claimed that social media did more for giving out personal information than any government spying program could ever have.
(SEE: art, life, imitate)
"If anyone watched the TV show, 'Person of Interest' (and you should have), there was an episode in which one character claimed that social media did more for giving out personal information than any government spying program could ever have."
Indeed. I am always amused that people will screech at the government over privacy but will tell you much, much more about themselves on social media than you really ever wanted to know.
Facebook is FREE! Snapchat is FREE! Twatter is FREE!
How do you think they pay for all those servers? To pay for those smug, self righteous programmers and woke SJW executives?
It isn't a charity paying for it.
It ain't the Government paying.
They are selling YOU to pay for all of it.
YOU ARE THE PRODUCT!!
YOU and everything that is unique about you. Your likes and dislikes. Your buying habits. Your HEALTH history. Your POLITICS. Your FRIENDS and FAMILY. Your RELIGION. Do you own a gun? Do you like or dislike illegal immigration? How about transgenders? Vote Liberal?
Imagine if they knew some of your habits? Visit the Liquor store often? Like Porn? Smoke Weed? Speed on the freeway? Visit bars? Or stripclubs? Drive slow down the street with the working girls? Wait for that guy from the Party to tell you how THEY OWN YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN, and now you better obey. Or Else they will send the SJW Mob to destroy you and yours.
The "related" link is just the CNBC story again.
What's genius for Obama is scandal when it comes to Trump
Says it all. Except to add how "cutting edge" the Obama campaign was ...
Everyone I care to know ... already has easy access to me. (except, I would quite like to know some SDA-ers better)
I think of Facebookers like I think of people who would respond to an email from a Dating Site that says "someone has just looked at your profile, and wants to get to know you". I recently received that EXACT unsolicited email from a site I've never, ever, visited, let alone ever heard of. It's like ... do you REALLY believe that I am going to clik on that crap? But I suspect almost ALL Facebookers would. Get a life, losers. Get on with it already.
I love when FB keeps asking for your picture with your FB site. The few friends I have on FB site already know what I look like, those who don't are snooping.
And then there is this connection....yes I want him in front of a Canadian committee
"Wylie grew up in British Columbia and as a teenager he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. He left school at 16 without a single qualification. Yet at 17, he was working in the office of the leader of the Canadian opposition; at 18, he went to learn all things data from Obama’s national director of targeting, which he then introduced to Canada for the Liberal party."
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump
Mix red and blue and you get purple...politics, one of the four hidden dynasties. The others being religion, education and financial. Supporting any of it means you support the whore of Babylon (confusion)
Rev 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
This was written way back in the early 1900's...much has been built since.
Babylon is the fountain-head of all idolatry and systems of false worship. This is the "mystery of iniquity" (2Th_2:7) seen in all the great "religions" of the world. All alike substitute another god for the God of the Bible; a god made either with the hands or with the imagination, but equally made; a religion consisting of human merit and endeavor. The "Reunion of the Churches" of Christendom and the "League of Nations" are two of the most arresting signs of the times. - E. W. Bullinger
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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-20/whataboutism-nonsensical-propaganda-term-used-defend-failed-status-quo
"Whataboutism" Is A Nonsensical Propaganda Term Used To Defend The Failed Status Quo
Let’s begin with one particularly absurd accusation of “whataboutism” promoted by NPR last year:
When O’Reilly countered that “Putin is a killer,” Trump responded, “There are a lot of killers. You got a lot of killers. What, you think our country is so innocent?”
This particular brand of changing the subject is called “whataboutism” — a simple rhetorical tactic heavily used by the Soviet Union and, later, Russia. And its use in Russia helps illustrate how it could be such a useful tool now, in America. As Russian political experts told NPR, it’s an attractive tactic for populists in particular, allowing them to be vague but appear straight-talking at the same time.
The idea behind whataboutism is simple: Party A accuses Party B of doing something bad. Party B responds by changing the subject and pointing out one of Party A’s faults — “Yeah? Well what about that bad thing you did?” (Hence the name.)
It’s not exactly a complicated tactic — any grade-schooler can master the “yeah-well-you-suck-too-so-there” defense. But it came to be associated with the USSR because of the Soviet Union’s heavy reliance upon whataboutism throughout the Cold War and afterward, as Russia.
I liked that show. as 'off the wall' the premise, with specific episodes it managed to hit a lot of reality toggle switches.
They do know most of your habits, if you use an Android smartphone. I can't speak for the Apple (or other) side of things, but I did empirical testing on what the FB App for Android does, after something triggered my "that's weird" button.
To operate, it requires a permission (local storage) that gives it (and any other app with the same permission and clever-enough developers) to trawl your entire phone for data. All of it. And after my testing, it was promptly disabled, and the issue hasn't recurred since.
It never ceases to amaze me how willing people are to give away their lives and private information to total strangers, assuming that it'll never be used in a way of which they disapprove.
JJM, exactly.
If anything, the only thing people are consistent about is how stupid they are.
Historybuff, I wouldn't say the show was THAT off-the-wall, all things considered.
What is Bookface?
Not a scandal when the progs do it.
https://ijr.com/2018/03/1077083-ex-obama-campaign-director-fb/
I really don't understand what the big deal is. Facebook does not have that much more useful information than the old phone books. To know me and my friends on facebook isn't going to help anyone change political minds. My rightist friends will always vote rightist and my leftist friends will always vote leftist. The a political ones will remain apolitical. From my experience the only thing that happens when you try to sway an opinion via facebook is the opinions become more entrenched and you likely will lose friends if you become too pushy.
The Obama campaign was doing this with even more facebook accounts, way back in 2012.
This "is" the data, the Hillary and DNC wanted Obama to share, which if I remember correctly, never did share with other Democrats.(selfish SOB) This info gathering, is what was, being ironed out with all those facebook-white house meetings during Obama's first term.
Rush explains it all very clearly, what Democrats were bragging about in 2012 and 2013, how Obama was off the wall smart and the greatest politician ever. (sick)
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/03/20/flashback-obama-campaign-bragged-about-ingesting-facebook-data/
here's the NYT bragging about Obama's use of facebook data, way back in 2013,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/magazine/the-obama-campaigns-digital-masterminds-cash-in.html
The CBC et al are making people believe this(Trump 2016) was the first campaign to use facebook data this way,,,the media are liars, but what's new.
They're also making it seem the data was hacked or stolen, which is another lie. Facebook sold the info, that's how they've been making money prior to having ads in place.