5 ms·
>Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies. People volunteer all their social information. Yes. It's about social networks, not Facebook in particular. The
by vph 12y ago
>Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies. People volunteer all their social information.
Yes. It's about social networks, not Facebook in particular. The alternative is choosing not to participate. This is an intrinsic problem. You participate in a social network; you choose to be connected; you learn more about people and things in general, and as a result, people learn more about you. With technologies, there've always been trade-offs.
- xnull 12y agoWhat we are talking about here is something very different than your neighbors and acquaintances learning more about you. Trade-offs for sure.
- cube13 12y agoIf you're screaming your information out to the entire world, it's hard to find fault when someone listens.
- xnull 12y agoFacebook has a lot more information about you than what you post and 'privacy controls' presumably limit who gets access to the information you do. Both of these things are being abused.
- beagle3 12y ago> The alternative is choosing not to participate. That's wrong. I'm not participating, but I know that other people are posting pictures of me and reporting my whereabouts on facebook. I've read somewhere that at some point in East Germany, 30% of the population were informants for the secret police / intelligence agencies. Today, wherever Facebook has traction, it's more like 80%, and they report MORE data than those 30% did (But I wouldn't blame them, because, well, 99% of people "reported on" are also reporting on themselves). And I'm sure that every competent intelligence agency already has a live copy of the facebook database, whether by NSL or by bugging. If they didn't, they wouldn't be competent.