Notices tagged with facebook, page 38

What Is Facebook Trying To Do?
by James J. Zogby
https://lobelog.com/what-is-facebook-trying-to-do
'This week, #Facebook made a rather strange and disturbing set of announcements. In response to concerns raised by several civil rights organizations [....] troubling was that Facebook coupled this action with the appointment of former Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) to conduct a similar audit in response to charges that Facebook has a “liberal bias…against conservative voices.” [....] Facebook’s choice of Kyl to conduct the parallel audit with the ACLU’s Murphy. While the ACLU has a solid record of defending free speech from both the left and right of the political spectrum, Kyl has been notorious for his partisan associations with, support from, and advocacy for the very groups that have fomented anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant policies...'

Interesting reading for anyone concerned about their online privacy - this USA Today journalist requested all the data three companies hold about him, and goes through the results.

Facebook: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/03/30/downloaded-all-my-facebook-data-what-learned/471787002/

Google: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/03/30/download-google-data-how-what-found/473227002/

Apple: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/05/04/asked-apple-everything-had-me-heres-what-got/558362002/

#privacy #Facebook #Google #Apple #BigData

"Clear History"? Why not #DeleteFacebook instead

via @georgia @ @fsf

"Though they want you to believe they care about protecting your privacy, unless Facebook decides to completely overhaul itself using exclusively free software and decentralize, allowing people to run federated nodes of that software on their own computers, nobody should expect to go untracked."

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/clear-history-why-not-deletefacebook-instead

#Facebook #DeleteFacebook #DumpFacebook