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It doesn't look like the Facebook/CA thread made the transition from the shag. The Facebook/CA issue is different than the active measures topic and I believe the issue of social media and politics is bigger than the Facebook/CA controversy. So I created this thread to discuss not only the Facebook Fuck up but any legislation that should be enacted to prevent further abuses.

Anyways, here is a really good summary of Google and Facebook's storage of personal data. There are 37 tweets explaining what is captured and how to get a copy of your Google data.

 

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This underlying algorithmic tyranny issue is a bigger problem than the Russian influence.

With the Russians, they’re kinda sloppy, easy to spot if you know what to look for, and relatively new at harnessing the sophisticated technologies in the West.

Based on the way I see the tech guys respond to this issue, I’m really pessimistic on the future of democracy and society in general.  They seem to work under this philosophy of humans existing to be manipulated for profit/power, any regulatory approach is quickly disregarded as not practical or overreaching, and there is no real problem.

I’m not optimistic unless there’s widespread ethical change within the tech community to police themselves and frankly, I don’t see it happening.

Sucks.

 

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As we continue to watch Zuckerberg slowroll the info they’re disclosing to the public for obvious shareholder reasons, might as well go ahead and assume the Russians have everything. 

Not just the 87 million profiles, all of it.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-privacy-data-protection-users-outside-europe-gdpr-a8288081.html

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that new data privacy laws will only apply “in spirit” to more than three quarters of the company’s users.

Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will force the social network to comply with strict rules about the privacy of its European users. But Mr Zuckerberg failed to commit to rolling out the protections globally.

“We’re still nailing down details on this, but it should directionally be, in spirit, the whole thing,” Mr Zuckerberg said on Tuesday.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/04/facebook-most-people-could-have-had-their-public-profile-scraped.html

Zuckerberg says most Facebook users should assume they have had their public info scraped

  • Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a call to reporters that users who had a specific search functionality turned on should "assume" that their public profile has been scraped.

 

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-04/facebook-scans-what-you-send-to-other-people-on-messenger-app

Facebook Inc. scans the links and images that people send each other on Facebook Messenger, and reads chats when they’re flagged to moderators, making sure the content abides by the company’s rules. If it doesn’t, it gets blocked or taken down.

The company confirmed the practice after an interview published earlier this week with Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg raised questions about Messenger’s practices and privacy. Zuckerberg told Vox’s Ezra Klein a story about receiving a phone call related to ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. Facebook had detected people trying to send sensational messages through the Messenger app, he said.
 
“In that case, our systems detect what’s going on,” Zuckerberg said. “We stop those messages from going through.”
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I'm surprised this guy hasn't gotten more attention.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/18/facebook-cambridge-analytica-joseph-chancellor-gsr

The co-director of a company that harvested data from tens of millions of Facebook users before selling it to the controversial data analytics firms Cambridge Analytica is currently working for the tech giant as an in-house psychologist.

Joseph Chancellor was one of two founding directors of Global Science Research (GSR), the company that harvested Facebook data using a personality app under the guise of academic research and later shared the data with Cambridge Analytica.

He was hired to work at Facebook as a quantitative social psychologist around November 2015, roughly two months after leaving GSR, which had by then acquired data on millions of Facebook users.

Chancellor is still working as a researcher at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters in California, where psychologists frequently conduct research and experiments using the company’s vast trove of data on more than 2 billion users.

It is not known how much Chancellor knew of the operation to harvest the data of more than 50 million Facebook users and pass their information on to the company that went on to run data analytics for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Chancellor was a director of GSR along with Aleksandr Kogan, a more senior Cambridge University psychologist who is said to have devised the scheme to harvest Facebook data from people who used a personality app that was ostensibly acquiring data for academic research.

On Friday, Facebook announced it had suspended both Kogan and Cambridge Analytica from using the platform, pending an investigation. 

Facebook said in a statement Kogan “gained access to this information in a legitimate way and through the proper channels” but “did not subsequently abide by our rules” because he passed the information on to third parties. Kogan maintains that he did nothing illegal and had a “close working relationship” with Facebook.

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Those CA fuckers need to be shut down.  They are supporting dictators and the worst of the worst.

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Strategic Communications Laboratories, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, previously boasted on its website on it how re-branded Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte into a “strong, no-nonsense man of action” during the country’s 2016 election.

In an archived version of its website, first obtained by the South China Morning Post, SCL talks about how it helped fashion Duterte into an election-winning candidate. The brief doesn’t refer to the candidate by name, but it does point to the former mayor of Davao City — Duterte’s previous role.

 

 

https://thinkprogress.org/cambridge-analytica-rebrand-philippines-rodrigo-duterte-2016-election-87ba84d8aef2/

 

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NPR had a Congressman on earlier today discussing FB/CA. He stated Facebook's remorse appears to be disingenuous because it's after the fact. He also said we (Congress) had no idea about these kind of problems. Then he went on to say "we" will learn a lot more during the hearings.

My personal opinion is no one will learn shit. It's going to be a dog and pony show for Congressman to pontificate. Anyone with half a brain knows that user data is the product when it comes to social media. The Europeans have been fine tuning regulation specifically for these type of things for Twenty Fucking Years! Our response, "shit, I never would have figured anything like this would ever happen. We need hearings to get a better understanding of how the internets work."

 

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