ta_fbp

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by ta_fbp 13y ago
You could try email, xmpp instant messaging, self-hosting your website, and so on. Maybe a secure p2p tool such as waste. But one way or another the problem is usually the same, your friends are locked in by facebook and don't want to
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by ta_fbp 13y ago
In a democracy one person, one vote do mean equal influence per citizen, as in a democracy people decides policy. The USA is not a democracy, it is a republic, a system where people vote for a small number of representatives who then decide
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by ta_fbp 13y ago
I remember skype being known for making it possible to spy on user conversations, text and audio/video, way before microsoft bought it. With microsoft moving skype back from p2p to centralized server architecture doesn't hints at
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by ta_fbp 13y ago
It's not really news that in the USA, corporations claim for themselves rights attributed to a person while at the same denying the same rights to the actual persons.
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by ta_fbp 13y ago
Not really no. Facebook has been known for a while for building profiles of unregistered people and tracking them around. Then people you know offline who are on facebook will rat tons of information about you all the time. People are just
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by ta_fbp 13y ago
As usual, facebook PR is fallacious. Naively pretending they don't know governments are historically often engaging in criminal activities to draw attention away from the fact facebook is a massive surveillance too, one that past poli
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by ta_fbp 13y ago
I feel it's worth pointing that facebook makes it easier to identify and locate people who end up in prison without trial and so on. For a little while I've wandered into the business of finding the identity behind an online accou
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by ta_fbp 13y ago
Privacy issue is not about what you want, it's about what can be done (and often is without you knowing). Automated facial recognition is a serious privacy concern, it's not just about the slimy despicable thing facebook is. For