Posted on 10/26/2022 5:23:56 AM PDT by george76
Should you log in with Facebook or Google on other sites or apps? Short answer: No.
You’ve probably seen it on lots of apps and websites: buttons urging you to sign in with your Google or Facebook account. Sometimes it’s to let you share files, photos or emails. Other times it’s to use Google or Facebook as a quick way to log in ...
My rule of thumb is to just say no.
There are too many ways using these buttons can leak personal information or help Big Tech track you. There are some exceptions when it’s useful — but you might be surprised, and a little regretful, if you saw how many random sites have access to your Google or Facebook data. (Below, I’ll show you how to check and revoke access.)
What could go wrong? This month, Facebook warned a million Facebook users their accounts might have been compromised by 400 malicious apps that were designed to trick them into handing over their Facebook log-in information. Criminals were making fake log-in buttons.
And I’d like to share a doozy of a cautionary tale: A Washington Post reader wrote to me recently about a Google log-in button on a job portal called iCIMS designed — at least in theory — to help people upload their résumés. Turns out, using it inadvertently grants the site access to your entire collection of digital files.
You agreed to what?
You might not know the name iCIMS, but many people applying for jobs do
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Google has a long history of enabling questionable oversharing.
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Facebook has an even more tortured history of this. Facebook had to pay a $5 billion fine in 2019 after the Federal Trade Commission investigated how it allowed a company called Cambridge Analytica to access users’ personal data.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Sure, pay a fine to the government.
What about restitution or recompense to the people who were personally affected by this?
“This will allow iCIMS to: See and download all your Google Drive files.”
This is interesting as it allows iCIMS to impart some information in addition to simply forwarding your resume. For example, using AI, they likely can give you a Social Credit Score, Carbon Usage Score, whether you’re MAGA, etc. Of course you won’t know that, but the hiring company would. After all, why would Microsoft use an outside company to forward resumes, unless they’re getting more than just the resume?
Anyway to read this WaPo article?
That is a bunch of words to say "Google is evil".
“Anyway to read this WaPo article?”
Get NoScript. It bypasses most paywalls and removes ads from Youtube Etc.
It is like magic.
Click on the link still works for me.
Must be excerpted here. ~per the rules.
For a long time Google was secretly accessing device cameras, and microphones when you landed on their pages. Even if you were not signed into Google.
It says “Open in Silk browser,” which I’ve tried before with great calamity.
Cambridge Analytica was neck deep involved in the Steele Dossier Russia Hoax.
this is dumb, a smart person would have a ‘spam gmail’ account to has no personal info and use ‘sign in with gmail’ to save time.
I don’t have a Facebook or Google account and don’t plan on ever having accounts with either of those two.
Texas sues Google for capturing biometric data of millions without consent..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4102095/posts
Even those that should be better at spotting scams can be taken. In today’s video they reveal how a company sold them some equipment they did not even own and then they delivered the wrong product.
Only luck stopped Linus from sending the $45,000 to the scammers.
BTW this video was viewed in one day almost 1.4 million times!! That is more then many network and cable tv shows these days! It is a NERD channel to boot!
Linus Tech Tips
14.9M subscribers
We paid $45,000. They Ghosted Us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rDex2Itb8o
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