From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:24:15 +0000 (+0100)
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+Title: Facebooks ability to sell your personal information is the real Cambridge Analytica scandal
+Tags: english, personvern
+Date: 2018-03-21 16:30
+
+<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>