[Kizzy]

wtf?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a8269021.html

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Cherie

what are you talking about? I never mentioned anything about facebook groups

You posted the article you said referred to the point you were making.... nowhere in that article does it substantiate what you inferred, that Labour targeted voters via data mining :/

[parmnion]

Has anyone deleted fb over this?

[smudgie]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Has anyone deleted fb over this?

No.
It’s pretty obvious when you join that they collect your data.
Nothing they collect from me bothers me

[Kizzy]

No, half of me thinks this is a rouse to ruin fb, it's not working for the right wing it's being used as a galvanising tool for the left and they hate that. Society are pooling against all manner of injustice that exposes them as they hack away at resources for schools, kids, housing, while all the while feathering their nest with raises fiddling expenses turning blind eyes to tax dodging not dong enough on minimum wage dodgers, siphoning money out of the country with hairbrained schemes like the garden bridge while selling off anything and everything else.

They tried to make social media work for them but it hasn't so now it must go.

Smudgie made a good point most sites you go on are accessible, your info is gathered isn't that how ads are targeted? I look for a holiday and then for the next 3 months jet2, and other travel company ads show on pages I visit :/

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

I actually feel sorry for facebook, it was invented by kids for kids... it's been exploited as much as we have.

Originally Posted by Kizzy

No, half of me thinks this is a rouse to ruin fb, it's not working for the right wing it's being used as a galvanising tool for the left and they hate that. Society are pooling against all manner of injustice that exposes them as they hack away at resources for schools, kids, housing, while all the while feathering their nest with raises fiddling expenses turning blind eyes to tax dodging not dong enough on minimum wage dodgers, siphoning money out of the country with hairbrained schemes like the garden bridge while selling off anything and everything else.

They tried to make social media work for them but it hasn't so now it must go.

Smudgie made a good point most sites you go on are accessible, your info is gathered isn't that how ads are targeted? I look for a holiday and then for the next 3 months jet2, and other travel company ads show on pages I visit :/

that's an about turn ... so when you thought fb was working for the right it was exploitation but now it appears it is actually working for the left, the right want to scrap it

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Cherie

that's an about turn ... so when you thought fb was working for the right it was exploitation but now it appears it is actually working for the left, the right want to scrap it

Are you deliberately misunderstanding things?

The right as stated in your article were extracting data from facebook, not engaging with it or having their party engaged with in any meaningful way.

My point today was that seeing as their attempts to engage failed, they cannot connect to the public as it's clear they have nothing but soundbites to offer and any page was dominated with angry people wanting to know why they were doing what they were doing on everything from HS2 to brexit to fracking to ATOS to universal credit. They had nothing to say to allay any fears.

Labour on the other hand and Corbyn in particular were gaining massive support via social media and it was a force to be reckoned with in the respect that it galvanised communities and gave hope to those suffering due to government cuts and caps.


Their extrapolation of data is now thwarted due to the whistleblower, so my point today is they now no longer have any use for facebook which is why I believe they will want it ended.

[jaxie]

I hate the idea of any of them spying on us but unfortunately that is the age we live in. You've only got to search something on Google and ads for the thing you looked at pop up all over the place. We are being watched probably much more than we realize.

[parmnion]

Originally Posted by smudgie

No.
It’s pretty obvious when you join that they collect your data.
Nothing they collect from me bothers me

Well ah think ah will cos FB really is a load of bollocks..its like staring at scrawlings on toilet walls being beamed directly into ma frontal lobe.....saying that ah am partial to the 'likes'

[smudgie]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Well ah think ah will cos FB really is a load of bollocks..its like staring at scrawlings on toilet walls being beamed directly into ma frontal lobe.....saying that ah am partial to the 'likes'

I am very selective, friends and family only....and not all of them either.

[Maru]

Facebook says data leak hits 87 million users, widening privacy scandal
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-f...nology+News%29

Facebook says data leak hits 87 million users, widening privacy scandal

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Wednesday that the personal information of up to 87 million users, mostly in the United States, may have been improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, up from a previous news media estimate of more than 50 million.

Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a conference call with reporters that Facebook had not seen “any meaningful impact” on usage or ad sales since the scandal, although he added, “it’s not good” if people are unhappy with the company.

Shares rose more than 3 percent after the bell.

Zuckerberg told reporters that he accepted blame for the data leak, which has angered users, advertisers and lawmakers, while also saying he was still the right person to head the company he founded.

“When you’re building something like Facebook that is unprecedented in the world, there are going to be things that you mess up,” Zuckerberg said, adding that the important thing was to learn from mistakes.

He said he was not aware of any discussions on the Facebook board about him stepping down, although directors would face a challenge if they wanted to oust him because Zuckerberg is the controlling shareholder.

He said he had not fired anyone over the scandal and did not plan to. “I’m not looking to throw anyone else under the bus for mistakes that we made here,” he said.

Facebook first acknowledged last month that personal information about millions of users wrongly ended up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica.

Zuckerberg will testify about the matter next Tuesday and Wednesday during two U.S. congressional hearings.

London-based Cambridge Analytica, which has counted U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign among its clients, disputed Facebook’s estimate of affected users. It said in a tweet on Wednesday that it received no more than 30 million records from a researcher it hired to collect data about people on Facebook.

Zuckerberg, on the call with reporters, said Facebook should have done more to audit and oversee third-party app developers like the one that Cambridge Analytica hired in 2014.

“Knowing what I know today, clearly we should have done more,” he said.

Going forward, he said, Facebook was taking steps to restrict which personal data is available to third-party app developers, and he said it might take two more years to fix Facebook's problems. (bit.ly/2Ejpktb)

“We’re broadening our view of our responsibility,” Zuckerberg said.

Most of the up to 87 million people whose data was shared with Cambridge Analytica were in the United States, Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer wrote in a blog post. (Graphic: bit.ly/2q5r5pl)

Shares in Facebook closed down 0.6 percent on Wednesday to $155.10. They have tumbled more than 16 percent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke.

The previous estimate of more than 50 million Facebook users affected by the data leak came from two newspapers, the New York Times and London’s Observer, based on their investigations of Cambridge Analytica.

Zuckerberg said Facebook came to the higher estimate by looking at the number of people who had downloaded a personality quiz app created by Cambridge University academic Aleksandr Kogan, or about 270,000 people, and then adding in the number of friends they had.

Cambridge Analytica has said that it engaged Kogan “in good faith” to collect Facebook data in a manner similar to how other third-party app developers have harvested personal information.

The scandal has kicked off investigations by Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and by some 37 U.S. state attorneys general.

Nigeria’s government will investigate allegations of improper involvement by Cambridge Analytica in that country’s 2007 and 2015 elections, a presidency spokesman said on Monday.

[Kizzy]

So what?... There are data leaks all the time what information do people put on FB that is so life changing anyway?

Companies have been selling info and peoples bank details obtained for years, I remember talk talk had an issue with it a few years back.

This is just a way to get social media regulated. It's just not controllable enough :/