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I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes.
nytimes.com ^ | 4/11/2018 | BRIAN X. CHEN

Posted on 04/14/2018 8:55:50 AM PDT by rktman

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To: luckystarmom
And you may be captured too. 🍿🍻😹🇺🇸
41 posted on 04/14/2018 10:00:11 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Unless you hide you hide your IP address, they got you.


42 posted on 04/14/2018 10:01:28 AM PDT by Dacula
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Seems with all the technology ......why does something I say here have to stay on the net for others outside this forum, to be able to see? I always thought computers were the start of something bad.

Technology gets more evil then good because humans are unpredictable.


43 posted on 04/14/2018 10:02:30 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: rktman

So he’s surprised that Facebook had the information that he entered into the website.


44 posted on 04/14/2018 10:02:34 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: TribalPrincess2U
Shhhhhh. Now everybody knows. Big bro computer is watching and listening. And keeping records. 👹
45 posted on 04/14/2018 10:09:38 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: SaveFerris
"Facebook is one of the worst offenders."

It may really be one of the worst, but it's exponentially smaller than Google(from the article). And don't disregard the Mormon Church, either.

46 posted on 04/14/2018 10:17:24 AM PDT by matthew fuller (Thank God for Donald J. Trump- El Presidente Por La Vida !!)
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To: Chode

Will do Sir.


47 posted on 04/14/2018 10:17:40 AM PDT by mabarker1 ((Progress- the opposite of congress))
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To: rktman; ProtectOurFreedom
It's like looking in a mirror, looking in a mirror, looking in a mirror...
48 posted on 04/14/2018 10:18:22 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: shelterguy

When you download what they have on you, bam!, they just got another time and event to enter into your file. Just accept “they” know everything. Enter a few more outlandish likes for a bit of payback.


49 posted on 04/14/2018 10:21:26 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: luckystarmom

oh yes

Your phone - or your PC/laptop mic can be “on” too.


50 posted on 04/14/2018 10:26:25 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: matthew fuller

On the first, didn’t you read between my lines? ;)

As for the latter, pun accidentally intended, yes.


51 posted on 04/14/2018 10:27:43 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: rktman; jimrob; upchuck
Facebook is evil. Very evil. Satan is on the Board of Directors and sits at the right hand of Zuck.

Announcing the start of the 'facebook is evil' ping list:

This is the Facebook Is Evil ping list.

If you'd like to be on or off this list, please click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.

52 posted on 04/14/2018 10:29:24 AM PDT by upchuck (Keep a sharp lookout. The best is yet to come.)
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To: mabarker1

Lot of info here-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin


53 posted on 04/14/2018 10:29:39 AM PDT by matthew fuller (Thank God for Donald J. Trump- El Presidente Por La Vida !!)
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To: RitaOK

Yes, there is no delete. Except on the user’s end and even then, not always.

It’s funny when people “delete” stuff on their computer. Or so they think. Not until that area is overwritten. At a minimum.


54 posted on 04/14/2018 10:31:15 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: frnewsjunkie; Chode; All

I learned a great way to get rid of pesky phone calls from an ER Doc when I was delivering His Golf Cart one morning after He had worked a Night Shift.

I unloaded his golf cart and put it in the garage the phone rang so He says excuse me just a minute and he goes picks up the phone handset, listens for a few seconds and asked them to hold on please, He puts the phone down goes over to shelf and picks up one of those compressed air horns goes back picks up the phone and blasts the airhorn in the mouthpiece on the phone and hangs up on them. He says that they very rarely call back;)


55 posted on 04/14/2018 10:32:12 AM PDT by mabarker1 ((Progress- the opposite of congress))
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To: upchuck

[This is the Facebook Is Evil ping list.]

Oh sure ... that’s what you’d LIKE us to believe!!

(lol)


56 posted on 04/14/2018 10:32:19 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: zeebee

Bkmk and Thank You for the info.


57 posted on 04/14/2018 10:33:56 AM PDT by mabarker1 ((Progress- the opposite of congress))
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To: SaveFerris

Even that which was over-written was already captured, in the ether.

Over writing is a pacifier designed for us. “They” already “stored” that which was overwritten.


58 posted on 04/14/2018 10:38:02 AM PDT by RitaOK
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To: rktman
A Facebook page is a public persona. Some of this is just the price one pays for having a public persona. More sinister is the fact that if you don't have a public persona many of your economic transactions will be used to create one for you. If it's possible to draw a line in this murky business, that might be a good place to start.

Unfortunately it would be very difficult to enforce given the distributed nature of the data and the fact that it may actually be residing in Calcutta or Guangzhou. I'm not sure it is possible to prevent it from being gathered, analyzed, or traded, at least at this point. Even multiple identities may be linked by, say, a street or IP address. It may be possible to punish companies or other institutions for using it. For that we'd need an honest broker, and unfortunately what we are now learning about corruption in the FBI is very discouraging regarding the gathering and illicit sharing of nominally private information. That has, unfortunately, been going on longer than computers have existed. In 24 hours information taken from an attorney's office turned up being blasted out shamelessly via the Wall Street Journal and CNN. These are not honest brokers, nor will any privacy movement gain any traction among those who are already in such gross violation.

59 posted on 04/14/2018 10:39:03 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: SaveFerris

Ya wanna be on the ping list? Free beer every Friday :)


60 posted on 04/14/2018 10:40:12 AM PDT by upchuck (Keep a sharp lookout. The best is yet to come.)
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