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Facebook and the Future of Online Privacy
Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Imag Facebook and the Future of Online Privacy The EU has taken the lead in responding to abuse by the likes of Facebook, thanks to its new privacy standards and proposed greater taxation of peddlers of online personal data. Yet more is needed and feasible. NEW YORK – Chris Hughes, a co-founder […]
Social Media Now Being Used by Police and Intelligence Agencies to Collect Biometrics
Social Media Now Being Used by Police and Intelligence Agencies to Collect Biometrics Amid the ongoing Facebook/Cambridge Analytica debacle over their general surveillance and misuse of users’ private data, there is an emerging trend that is infinitely more disturbing. The first story popped up in the UK yesterday where police admitted to using a photo […]
Facebook Uses Artificial Intelligence to Predict Your Future Actions For Advertisers, Says Confidential Document
FACEBOOK USES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO PREDICT YOUR FUTURE ACTIONS FOR ADVERTISERS, SAYS CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT SINCE THE CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA scandal erupted in March, Facebook has been attempting to make a moral stand for your privacy, distancing itself from the unscrupulous practices of the U.K. political consultancy. “Protecting people’s information is at the heart of everything we […]
The Big Tech Backlash of 2018
The Big Tech Backlash of 2018 Herbert Ponting Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition, Antarctica 1911 Something must be terribly wrong with the world. A few days ago Elizabeth Warren agreed with Trump on China, now Bernie Sanders agrees with him about Amazon. What’s happening? Bernie Sanders Agrees With Trump: Amazon Has Too Much Power Independent Vermont […]
Facebook Admits “Most” Of Its 2.2 Billion Users Exposed To Data Scraping, “Malicious Actors”
Facebook Admits “Most” Of Its 2.2 Billion Users Exposed To Data Scraping, “Malicious Actors” Facebook has admitted that “most” of its 2.2 billion users “could have had their public profile scraped” by third parties without their knowledge, and that the personal information of up to 87 million people was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, the […]
Check Your Mute List On Twitter For Possible New Censorship Shenanigans
Check Your Mute List On Twitter For Possible New Censorship Shenanigans I decided a while back that I’m just going to document all the weird censorship activities that I personally encounter from giant social media corporations in order to have information available to the public so the hive mind can connect the dots on all […]
Facebook Changes Privacy Tools, Allowing Users To Delete Data
Facebook Changes Privacy Tools, Allowing Users To Delete Data Responding to public and political outrage, on Wednesday morning Facebook announced a reorganization of the privacy settings that users and have long criticized as a seeming afterthought, and which will provide for better privacy data control and make it easier for users to find, download and […]
The Dawn of Psychographic Outcome-based Warfare
The Dawn of Psychographic Outcome-based Warfare Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Israeli intelligence-surveillance-military complex – perhaps, in a dozen or more highly-secured computer systems laboratories in Tel Aviv, Herzliya, Ramat Gan, and Petach Tikva – the idea was first stumbled upon. Borrowing from the psychographic tools developed by online marketing firms and coupling […]
How to See the Apps Tracking You on Facebook — and Block Them
How to See the Apps Tracking You on Facebook — and Block Them (ANTIMEDIA) — Following a lengthy silence in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where it was revealed that a data firm was able to obtain personal information from over 50 million Facebook accounts, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally spoke out on Wednesday. “We have a responsibility to protect […]
Facebook is killing democracy with its personality profiling data
Facebook is killing democracy with its personality profiling data What state should you move to based on your personality? What character on “Downton Abbey” would you be? What breed of dog is best for you? Some enormous percentage of Facebook’s 2.13 billion users must have seen Facebook friends sharing results of various online quizzes. They are […]
The New Military-Industrial Complex of Big Data Psy-Ops
The New Military-Industrial Complex of Big Data Psy-Ops Bryan Bedder/Getty ImagesAlexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, addressing the Concordia Summit in New York, September 19, 2016 Apparently, the age of the old-fashioned spook is in decline. What is emerging instead is an obscure world of mysterious boutique companies specializing in data analysis and online influence that contract […]
The Only Reason We’re Examining Facebook’s Sleazy Behavior Is Because Trump Won
The Only Reason We’re Examining Facebook’s Sleazy Behavior Is Because Trump Won Trust me, there’s nobody more thrilled to see Facebook’s unethical and abusive practices finally getting the attention they deserve from mass media and members of the public who simply didn’t want to hear about it previously. I’ve written multiple articles over the years […]
Breaching the Public Trust – Facebook is the Beginning
Breaching the Public Trust – Facebook is the Beginning Last night I was chatting with a friend while waiting for my daughter. She told me her phone now informs her when her bills are due. Now, that may not seem like a big deal, but it is when you realize that she never told her phone […]
Facebook: Six Degrees of Giant Squid
Facebook: Six Degrees of Giant Squid Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) German artist, philosopher, composer, mystic Cosmic TreeAll of a sudden, politicians in the EU, UK, and USA all want to talk to Mark Zuckerberg. That’s a bad enough sign all by itself. It means they all either have been asleep, complicit, or they’re not very […]
Facebook Can STILL TRACK YOU Even If You Delete Your Account
Facebook Can STILL TRACK YOU Even If You Delete Your Account Facebook’s latest scandals involving Cambridge Analytica and Barack Obama’s campaign team allowed to break the user rules is prompting many to ponder whether deleting their Facebook account is the right move. But Facebook can still track you even if you delete your account. By connecting […]
