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Facebook oopsie: 1.5mil people's contacts uploaded without consent

1 hour ago, D13H4RD said:

Facebook and privacy nightmares go as well as a fine red wine mixed in with delicately grilled wagyu. 

 

In short, they go really well together. 

Are you drunk. Cheeseburgers and beer, I say.

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11 hours ago, Captain Chaos said:

I have a theory about that.  Grab some tin foil.

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Darpa was working on the "Lifelog" project, a database which allowed them to track anyone's entire life.  The Pentagon killed that project on February 4th 2004 due to privacy concerns.


3 guesses at what date Facebook was officially founded ...

The Wired article about the cancellation of the Lifelog project: https://www.wired.com/2004/02/pentagon-kills-lifelog-project/
The Wikipedia page on Facebook.  You can see the founding date in the column on the right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

Joking aside, FB's data trove is far too valuable for the government to just shut it down.  Oh, and then there's the issue of how it would disrupt things if FB were to disappear overnight.

Basically no need for a conspiracy, when the populace is stupid enough to offer the information (IE, some other countries offer incentives for population to "out" criminals/dissidents... no need for the secret police to knock on those doors).

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Fakebook is simply way too big to go bankrupt. They can pull any shit like this and people simply won't care.

And saying "Alright, I've had enough of it, deleting FB right now" doesn't help anything, Mark Suckerberg laughes his ass off at you.

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Yeah ok sure Bookface accident indeed. I don't even care, don't talk to anyone on it, just follow some sites that's all haha. 

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32 minutes ago, CTR640 said:

Fakebook is simply way too big to go bankrupt. They can pull any shit like this and people simply won't care.

And saying "Alright, I've had enough of it, deleting FB right now" doesn't help anything, Mark Suckerberg laughes his ass off at you.

Also, before you "delete" or deactivate Fecesbook, you should change ALL of your info to some fake random data. And not totally in the end but you leave it that way for a while. Coz they don't actually delete anything so if your data remains up there, make sure it's fake.

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27 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

Also, before you "delete" or deactivate Fecesbook, you should change ALL of your info to some fake random data. And not totally in the end but you leave it that way for a while. Coz they don't actually delete anything so if your data remains up there, make sure it's fake.

Exactly. Even if you delete FB before changing info in to fake ones, your data still remains on FB their servers. Pretty creepy.

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1 minute ago, CTR640 said:

Exactly. Even if you delete FB before changing info in to fake ones, your data still remains on FB their servers. Pretty creepy.

Also isn't that illegal? At least in the UK with GDPR it should be I think. 

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7 hours ago, Raskolnikov said:

You can pretty make most of everything private on FB. 

I know where you are going with this (going into privacy settings, customizing feed, and being careful about what you upload) but just as a general rule of thumb with ANY social media nothing is private at all.  Please for your sake and anyone else's keep that in mind.  Once its out there its out there. 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, bradwiggo said:

Also isn't that illegal? At least in the UK with GDPR it should be I think. 

It is if I'm right. But you know how the big corps are, they won't care and won't do anything.

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17 hours ago, RejZoR said:

What bothers me is how this wasn't classified as a phishing attack and Facebook being slammed hard by law enforcement and fined billions? 

Governments would rather secretly work with facebook instead of fight it.

Shit as big as facebook can kind of manipulate public opinion by serving the users news articles etc. of their choice, a great propaganda tool essentially

Plus government want your data too. Perhaps more than anyone else! 

It's never a government's interest to protect your privacy you know...

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14 hours ago, sof006 said:

Wtf this is every other day. How many times is this going to be an accident?

Is not a accident, when it leaked they claim to be accident to minimize damaged claused.

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16 hours ago, RejZoR said:

Also, before you "delete" or deactivate Fecesbook, you should change ALL of your info to some fake random data. And not totally in the end but you leave it that way for a while. Coz they don't actually delete anything so if your data remains up there, make sure it's fake.

I wouldn't think for a second that they wouldn't also continue to store the old stuff.

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Sadly, I don't think this is an oopsies by Facebook. Likely a common practice they were doing until caught and called out... I am seriously about to delete my facebook account. Only reason I have it is for family and military friends to keep in touch with. 

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1 hour ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I wouldn't think for a second that they wouldn't also continue to store the old stuff.

I'm aware of that, but their automation probably assumes last info is the most relevant one. Which is why I wouldn't change the info and deactivate account immediately. I'd enter fake info, wait for a month or two without any real usage and then deactivate so it seems like your info is real.

 

I frankly can't wait the day when Facebook (and similar companies, like Google) get slammed ultra hard for all this privacy nonsense. It's actually mind bending that such appalling handling of user data is even permissible...

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8 hours ago, Slurs Gang said:

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I am glad that my account got deleted 4 days ago. 

Not really, they still have informations about you after you deleted your account.

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At least they won't be getting anything new assuming he also blocks all the Facebook shit that's hidden on nearly all webpages...

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1 hour ago, CTR640 said:

Not really, they still have informations about you after you deleted your account.

Source please? 

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1 hour ago, Slurs Gang said:

Source please? 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ok-youve-deleted-facebook-but-is-your-data-still-out-there/

 

There are more articles about that, can't be arsed to search for more so you can search for more.

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11 hours ago, RejZoR said:

I'm aware of that, but their automation probably assumes last info is the most relevant one. Which is why I wouldn't change the info and deactivate account immediately. I'd enter fake info, wait for a month or two without any real usage and then deactivate so it seems like your info is real.

Despite the colossal list of scandals such as this one, I think they're running a fairly sophisticated operation.  I'm sure their systems can detect a complete profile overhaul and handle it accordingly, however that may be.  Basically if you bought into the system, it's too late.  No chance and no point of getting out now.  Only if you've avoided them from the start is it even worth thinking about.

11 hours ago, RejZoR said:

I frankly can't wait the day when Facebook (and similar companies, like Google) get slammed ultra hard for all this privacy nonsense. It's actually mind bending that such appalling handling of user data is even permissible...

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13 hours ago, Slurs Gang said:

Source please? 

Considering it impossible for you to check your information has been deleted from all their servers and backups. Similar to existence of shadow profiles, nothing is truly deleted once on the internet.

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