Posted on 03/28/2018 4:56:05 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Heh, and I thought that no company could outsleeze Microsoft.
All they did was give us software with more holes than swiss cheese, announce that they would produce competing software with companies doing good stuff, thereby driving down the price of that company, and then purchase the company. Only to ruin what stuff that company had produced.
And now Google.
When you absolutely, positively want every byte of information about you out there for sale.
To anyone.
I know a number of small businesses that dropped their websites in favor a Facebook page. When I explained that I was not a member and had concerns about my privacy when I visited their websites, they all have assured me that I had nothing to worry about.
I am NOT a happy camper. And if any non-member wants to look into a class action, let me know.
If you hit their website they know your IP. They can match that up with data from other data acquisition firms they own. If your browser is accepting cookies they scribble data to it.
No invasion of privacy applies to the Google robber barons. They have lawyers and judges in their pockets. Nothing will ever be done.
Any small biz with a Facebook page needs its ever lovin’ head examined.
...just imagine the members who thought closing their accounts on FB
would protect their privacy....not so
Or its Facebook page should come with a prominently displayed warning: Abandon all privacy, ye who enter here.
“For some, having a robust social media presence is a professional necessity. Seven out of 10 employers use social media to screen candidates before hiring, according to a survey conducted in early 2017 on behalf of CareerBuilder.”
Since I refused to sign up, I am steamed. And I think I will have a chat with some of those small biz owners. Cuz they may need to have a few words with their lawyers.
How else were they supposed to develop Artificial Intelligence? They had to collect lots of data first.
This is much bigger than the MSM is releasing.....to say 50 million accounts..BS!...
Algorithms thus can be seen as simply the formal description of computer programs.
So what are they used for? For anything that you may want a computer to calculate.
From very mathematical concepts like "an algorithm that tells you whether a certain number is prime or not"
to AI systems such as "an algorithm that, based on the pages that you like at Facebook, determines which ads would be best to show you".
Once you come up with the algorithm or have read about it and understood it, then in theory you can implement it
in any programming language of your choice. (hat tip quora.com)
It began with cookies and a NYTimes columnist (retired long time now) wrote an oped many years ago, when the Internet and with it the use of cookies was just beginning, and he argued that we had to collectively demand that all such stuff be predicated on the default set to opt-out and EVERY use of our information had to be made possible ONLY on a choice of opt-in and that choice required NOT merely for each data-type but for each and every direct and indirect use of it. He was right.
Big Brother will not be a government so much as a set of giant corporations in a not-to-distant future state-capitalist symbiosis, like China.
Just drove by the local middle school on an errand. Their electronic sign had “Like us on Facebook”. The people in the front office are likely oblivious to the FB news.
because of your friends facebook would have some data on you because you would be in that persons phone contacts beyond that not sure
http://variety.com/2018/digital/news/facebook-call-sms-data-1202736237/
Facebook has been collecting and storing detailed calling and text messaging records from some of its users for years, the company admitted over the weekend. The data was collected on an opt-in basis, but the breath of information retained further adds to the privacy backlash the company is currently facing.
First reports about Facebook collecting this data surfaced last week, when some users made use of a Facebook feature that allows them to download all of their data from the company’s servers. Some users found that these records included detailed records about phone calls they made in the past, including numbers called, as well as date, time and duration of each and every call.
Abandon all privacy, ye who enter here.
The ‘right to privacy’ is something that is forfeited by the very act of breathing. The Courts have declared that ‘privacy’ is a shadowy figment of our imagination that casts its penumbra as the right to abortions. that is the only privacy we have in law...abortions
Following onto your thoughts regarding regulating these data mines.
If Congress did look like they were going to act aggressively, I wouldn’t put it past any of these companies to surreptitiously release damaging information from their massive troves, about several key legislators, as a shot across the bow about how they will protect their monopolies.
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