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#DeleteFacebook trends in response to Cambridge Analytica
We all moved on from MySpace. We can move on from Facebook too." This was a typical message found on Twitter in the wake of accusations over Cambridge Analytica using personal data from 50 million Facebook users to influence the US presidential election in 2016. After reports of Cambridge Analytica using Facebook's user information came to light, people began to urge others to either #DeleteFacebook or #BoycottFacebook in response.
[...] A spokeswoman for Privacy International warned that privacy concerns extend beyond Facebook as "your data is being exploited all the time". A person on the technology subsection of Reddit agreed, saying removing Facebook "doesn't solve the long term problem [because] consent to data use is very weakly protected online right now". And one Twitter user seeking regulation of Facebook said having the ability to delete an account is "a privilege".
This is a campaign we can all get behind, regardless of your position on election interference and influences.
Previously: The Cambridge Analytica Files
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Arik on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:21AM (11 children)
Absolutely true. And what will that accomplish?
Very very little if you 'move on' from Facebook to the next centralized, ad-supported clone that Amazon or Google or whoever provides. Because they will simply turn around and do the same thing.
It should be peer to peer, with no central point of failure, no nerve-center to attack and exploit, no one at any point in a position to simply hoover up mass data. It can't rely on advertising for finance either - we've seen where that goes already.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:47AM (2 children)
"...no one at any point in a position to simply hoover up mass data."
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Apparently you are not aware of a US government agency called the NSA.
Even if Facebook ceases to exist, the Hoovering will continue. And believe me, they are hoovering every fucking thing under the sun. If you knew the extent of it, you might not sleep for a while.
The game is over, and the bad guys won.
Seriously, unless you want to live in a cabin off the grid and only use barter for all transactions, not own a motor vehicle, etc., you may as well just try to enjoy your life and forget about the government knowing about you.
Like I said, the game is over and the bad guys won.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @07:39AM
There is no such thing as perfect security. Security always has to be relative to a threat model. There's things you can do to protect yourself from dragnet surveillance by the NSA or other state actors (e.g. use encryption so they at least have to do some work to read your data), but realistically, you have to accept that you don't have privacy from the NSA if they don't want you to. That doesn't mean you don't have privacy from anyone. Even keeping your life mostly private from Facebook and Google is not completely unreasonable if you try (e.g. don't use their services, use privacy add-ons and/or a hosts file to block access to them from 3rd party websites).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @08:01AM
Sure, bend over and submit. That'll teach them.
... Or you could instead make rational choices in your own and public interest and tell all your contacts about your reasoning.
Also Hoover was FBI, not NSA. :) (similar style tho, kudos if that was intentional)
(Score: 2, Funny) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:55AM (6 children)
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:54PM (5 children)
For anyone else who is sick and tired of idiots who feel the need to post everything in TT tags resulting in monospaced fonts, just add a style to the "Stylus" Firefox addon for SoylentNews.org:
tt {
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, "Bitstream Vera Sans", "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif !important;
}
It will make the TT tags look like all the other text.
(Score: 1) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:11PM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday March 21 2018, @05:06PM (1 child)
I guess you used the <ecode> tags and therefore think that would not be affected.
However if you look at the page source, you'll see that the generated HTML contains <tt> tags anyway.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @05:34PM
I've got 26 tags here, I can hold out for as long I need to.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday March 21 2018, @05:02PM
But it will break anything that uses the tags for good reasons, like formatted code or ASCII art.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 23 2018, @03:12PM
Anyone who has a problem with reading monospace fonts for long periods most every day is on the wrong website. Or is a heretic who uses proportional fonts in terminals and while coding.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:33AM
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That's what black chains are for. They enable censorship resistant applications
The financial community is spooging all over blockchain these days but generally require that middleman. It would be far better were they to use flat files and assembly code
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