X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/00f042a05731dbb013a61e8ff1d4bdcae63538fa..4aa8b127aa65aa0c2256baa3585a3d330d3fa8de:/blog/archive/2018/03/03.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2018/03/03.rss b/blog/archive/2018/03/03.rss index 56a8a4c5e2..808ddfc423 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2018/03/03.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2018/03/03.rss @@ -6,6 +6,64 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + Facebooks ability to sell your personal information is the real Cambridge Analytica scandal + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html + Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:30:00 +0100 + <p>So, Cambridge Analytica is getting some well deserved criticism for +(mis)using information it got from Facebook about 50 million people, +mostly in the USA. What I find a bit surprising, is how little +criticism Facebook is getting for handing the information over to +Cambridge Analytica and others in the first place. And what about the +people handing their private and personal information to Facebook? +And last, but not least, what about the government offices who are +handing information about the visitors of their web pages to Facebook? +No-one who looked at the terms of use of Facebook should be surprised +that information about peoples interests, political views, personal +lifes and whereabouts would be sold by Facebook.</p> + +<p>What I find to be the real scandal is the fact that Facebook is +selling your personal information, not that one of the buyers used it +in a way Facebook did not approve when exposed. It is well known that +Facebook is selling out their users privacy, but a scandal +nevertheless. Of course the information provided to them by Facebook +would be misused by one of the parties given access to personal +information about the millions of Facebook users. Collected +information will be misused sooner or later. The only way to avoid +such misuse, is to not collect the information in the first place. If +you do not want Facebook to hand out information about yourself for +the use and misuse of its customers, do not give Facebook the +information.</p> + +<p>Personally, I would recommend to completely remove your Facebook +account, and take back some control of your personal information. +<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/19/how-to-protect-your-facebook-privacy-or-delete-yourself-completely">According +to The Guardian</a>, it is a bit hard to find out how to request +account removal (and not just 'disabling'). You need to +<a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674?helpref=faq_content">visit +a specific Facebook page</a> and click on 'let us know' on that page +to get to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account">the +real account deletion screen</a>. Perhaps something to consider? I +would not trust the information to really be deleted (who knows, +perhaps NSA, GCHQ and FRA already got a copy), but it might reduce the +exposure a bit.</p> + +<p>If you want to learn more about the capabilities of Cambridge +Analytica, I recommend to see the video recording of the one hour talk +Paul-Olivier Dehaye gave to <a href="">NUUG</a> last april about +<a href="https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20170404-big-data-psychometric/"> +Data collection, psychometric profiling and their impact on +politics</a>.</p> + +<p>And if you want to communicate with your friends and loved ones, +use some end-to-end encrypted method like +<a href="https://www.signal.org/">Signal</a> or +<a href="https://ring.cx/">Ring</a>, and stop sharing your private +messages with strangers like Facebook and Google.</p> + + + H, Ap, Frp og Venstre går for DNA-innsamling av hele befolkningen http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/H__Ap__Frp_og_Venstre_g_r_for_DNA_innsamling_av_hele_befolkningen.html