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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Poll: Do you trust Facebook? ... THIS MORNING, IT emerged that nearly 45,000 Irish Facebook profiles may have been affected by the giant data breach involving as many as 87 million accounts harvested by UK data intelligence firm Cambr
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"In 2013, Brandon Copley, the CEO of Giftnix, was threatened with legal action after using the technique to demonstrate how personal information could be easily gathered at scale. "Multiple Facebook profiles were extremely easy to
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Australia's privacy commissioner has launched an investigation to determine whether Facebook breached the Australian privacy act. ... Facebook has admitted 311,127 Australian users are likely among the up to 87 million users worl
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Do these hundreds of millions of people who cannot wait to tell the world what they are doing practically minute by minute not realise that anyone with an ounce of brain can find out everything about them just by reading their posts?
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"... the actual internet is able to do that far more cheaply." "I imagine the replacement for Facebook will be ... something under the control of its users ..." This is what I am trying (poorly) to articulate. I use a
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Prof. Wu makes a couple of assumptions when he gives suggestions for Facebook alternatives or successors. I dont see those suggestions as the most important point of his argument however. I believe the most important point is that there m
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"In a statement today, the social-media giant estimated 622,161 Facebook users in Canada had their data improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica through apps used by themselves or their friends. Overall, Facebook says 87 million of i
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
s/text-only/ASCII-only, no Javascript/ s/browser/& I use/ s/in VGA textmode// @userbinator is correct; I often find this is advantageous for me and neither need nor want Unicod
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"It will also prevent apps from using Facebook Login to collect users' personal information, including details like their religious or political views, relationship status, education and work history, and more . ... In an alarm
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Today, however, the company [Facebook] announced sweeping changes to many of its most prominent APIs, restricting developer access in a number of crucial ways. Soon after, Tinder users started noting on Twitter that they had been kick
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"In that way and depending on how your personal data is manipulated, Facebook Login could almost fall under the category of a dark pattern - a method for websites or apps to get you to give up more information than is required by pla
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Facebook, in fact, claims lofty goals, saying it seeks to "bring us closer together" and "build a global community." Those are indeed noble purposes that social media can serve. But if they were Facebook's tru
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Morgan Stanley cut its price target on Facebook shares to $200 from $230 on Wednesday, citing concerns about the social media company's ad sales because of its data scandal. ... "While we think FB's high advertising per
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Facebook is asking users whether they think it's "good for the world" in a poll sent to an unspecified number of people." Source: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/apps/a19671683
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"You can't watch your kids 24/7," reads one poster, which has a picture of Schumer, Zuckerberg, and a shirtless Anthony Wiener outside Facebook's New York offices. "BUT WE CAN." ... Schumer - who in 2016
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Zero-width characters are invisible, `non-printing' characters that are not displayed by the majority of applications. F*or exam*ple, I've ins*erted 10 ze*ro-width spa*ces in*to thi*s sentence, c*an you tel**l? (Hin
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"... there are no privacy laws in the United States that directly prohibit political campaigns from buying, selling, or manipulating voter data and personally identifiable information . Without any privacy protections for individuals
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"As it had done consistently in its history, the firm, when faced with financial pressure, moved ever further in the direction of monetizing users` personal data. In this case, it finally went after the like button. A little over a yea
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
You see something before hitting backslash. I guess you didnt even bother to try it? Why are you even commenting then? When you hit backslash it simply changes the formatting, making what you see easier to read. If I can read the conten
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Zuckerberg's resignation would open up the possibility of a world-changing and reputation-enhancing second chapter, not only for him personally but also for Facebook the corporation. ... That said, the new CEO should not be Shery
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Actual title: "The infuriating invisibility of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg" "Mar. 20, 2018 3:34 PM ET With criticism swelling about the lack of a public statement from Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the Cambri
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"There are so many ways to use data to hurt people that the only safe database is the one that was never collected . ... The basic principle is that a system must be designed not to collect certain data, if its basic function can be c
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Muzard warned that Zuckerberg is personally vulnerable if the "crisis of confidence lingers on. He might find it hard to hold on if shareholders start getting out. Things can happen very quickly. His equivalent at Uber did not su
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"And when you have 10 [P2P] groups with [small number of family, friends, etc.] in each, then people will share to them pretty freely [in each case, only the content that is warranted for those individual groups]." ... It's
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"There has been an overwhelmingly negative public response to Facebook's launch of two new products yesterday. The products, called News Feed and Mini Feed, allow users to get a quick view of what their friends are up to, includin
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"He reminded me to re-watch the onstage interview from just months before that he did with me and Walt Mossberg. Walt asked him about privacy and referenced Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who was also in the room listening. "Privac
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Facebook says "authenticity" is key to the social network and rigorously policed, and that false information violates the terms of service agreement. ... Computer engineer Ryan Barrett fills in online forms with 0000s whenev
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Indeed, when I asked the company whether it would permit an external audit of its News Feed workflow and algorithms to prove that there are no hidden or inadvertent biases against stories critical of itself, a company spokesperson rep
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Facebook Allows Advertisers to Target Users on the Basis of Their Interest in Illegal Firearms" "And it doesn't seem interested in closing this loophole any time soon." https://slate.com/technology&
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/missouri-... "I influenced three senators for $477.85" "The goal of the ad campaign was to convince people to call their Senate offices and te

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