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Equifax's "safe" holds information about money that you borrowed, and some PII to tie it back to you. Facebook's "safe" probably holds enough information to ch

Equifax's "safe" holds information about money that you borrowed, and some PII to tie it back to you. Facebook's "safe" probably holds enough information to change your perspectives on a variety of issues, sway elections, break democracies, etc. While both are undoubtedly important, Facebook should be objectively more important than Equifax due to the nature of the information that Facebook holds. Who cares about money when so much more is at stake?

ucaetano 9y ago
> Equifax's "safe" holds information about money that you borrowed, and some PII to tie it back to you. It also contains address, SSN, account numbers, etc. Which, for most people, is far more damaging than your FB profile. But again, Equifax's hack wasn't WAI, it was a hack. Facebook's "leak" wasn't even a leak, it was WAI.
- ReverseCold 9y ago
  > It also contains address, SSN, account numbers, etc. This is money. > FB profile This contains information about who you are (psychologically and physically). It can be used to change your mind about things with/without you realizing. Though I'm not disagreeing with your point that one was an accident/bad practice while the other one was willful malice. What I do disagree with (that OP mentioned) is that you can opt out of Facebook. They do keep shadow profiles of non-users as well. It's just as easy to opt out of SSNs as it is to opt out of Facebook.
  - ucaetano 9y ago
    "This is money." x "This contains information about who you are (psychologically and physically)." Well, that becomes a personal opinion call about what you care more about, not a objective comparison. > It's just as easy to opt out of SSNs as it is to opt out of Facebook. Yeah, no, it isn't. You can easily isolate yourself from Fb, even if you still use it. And I think you've never went through identity theft, to think that. Identity theft can easily lead to bankruptcy, losing a job, tens of thousands in debt, etc.
  - khedoros1 9y ago
    Money is what allows me to provide a good lifestyle to my family. Facebook, well...I don't get my news there. Most of my profile is blank, false, or misleading. A decade ago, I used it for more. Now, it's a couple of technical discussion groups and the event calendar. Facebook is a blip. Equifax is the reason that I spent a lot of last week defending my bank account and cell service from takeover.
zaroth 9y ago
> Facebook's "safe" probably holds enough information to change your perspectives on a variety of issues, sway elections, break democracies, etc. This is sarcasm, right?
- ReverseCold 9y ago
  Nope. Why do you think it is? A large use case for collecting all the data about everything is what I just mentioned. Even if they themselves do not do these things, they allow others to do it using their platform. I don't like linking to Stallman because it sounds like I'm a conspiracy theorist - but here you go: https://stallman.org/facebook.html#psych https://stallman.org/facebook.html#psych

ucaetano 9y ago

> Equifax's "safe" holds information about money that you borrowed, and some PII to tie it back to you. It also contains address, SSN, account numbers, etc. Which, for most people, is far more damaging than your FB profile. But again, Equifax's hack wasn't WAI, it was a hack. Facebook's "leak" wasn't even a leak, it was WAI.

ReverseCold 9y ago
> It also contains address, SSN, account numbers, etc. This is money. > FB profile This contains information about who you are (psychologically and physically). It can be used to change your mind about things with/without you realizing. Though I'm not disagreeing with your point that one was an accident/bad practice while the other one was willful malice. What I do disagree with (that OP mentioned) is that you can opt out of Facebook. They do keep shadow profiles of non-users as well. It's just as easy to opt out of SSNs as it is to opt out of Facebook.
- ucaetano 9y ago
  "This is money." x "This contains information about who you are (psychologically and physically)." Well, that becomes a personal opinion call about what you care more about, not a objective comparison. > It's just as easy to opt out of SSNs as it is to opt out of Facebook. Yeah, no, it isn't. You can easily isolate yourself from Fb, even if you still use it. And I think you've never went through identity theft, to think that. Identity theft can easily lead to bankruptcy, losing a job, tens of thousands in debt, etc.
- khedoros1 9y ago
  Money is what allows me to provide a good lifestyle to my family. Facebook, well...I don't get my news there. Most of my profile is blank, false, or misleading. A decade ago, I used it for more. Now, it's a couple of technical discussion groups and the event calendar. Facebook is a blip. Equifax is the reason that I spent a lot of last week defending my bank account and cell service from takeover.

zaroth 9y ago

> Facebook's "safe" probably holds enough information to change your perspectives on a variety of issues, sway elections, break democracies, etc. This is sarcasm, right?

ReverseCold 9y ago
Nope. Why do you think it is? A large use case for collecting all the data about everything is what I just mentioned. Even if they themselves do not do these things, they allow others to do it using their platform. I don't like linking to Stallman because it sounds like I'm a conspiracy theorist - but here you go: https://stallman.org/facebook.html#psych https://stallman.org/facebook.html#psych