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Don’t forget: Instagram is creepy, too

sudshr47 March 21, 2018

Say it with me: Instagram is bad, too.

With Facebook in the news for all the wrong reasons this week, it may be tempting to overlook the social media giant’s photo-oriented sibling, Instagram. That would be unwise.

Instagram, which you should absolutely never forget is owned by Facebook, has around 800 million monthly active users — and it exploits their data for ad targeting much like its scandal-prone big brother. This should worry you.

As a Senate Democrat launches an investigation into Facebook’s sharing of user data with third parties (data which notoriously ended up with Cambridge Analytica), and as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg issues a non-apology apology for his company’s role in that mess, it’s important to remember that the detailed profiles Facebook builds on each of its users are not just limited to what we share with Facebook.com. Read more…

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7 much scarier questions for Zuckerberg

sudshr47 March 21, 2018

Could this be just the beginning of a much bigger Cambridge Analytica scandal for Facebook? The answer rides on how transparent Facebook is actually being right now. CEO Mark Zuckerberg just put forth a statement and plan to improve data privacy, but omitted some of the most grievous inquiries — and stopped short of apologizing. […]

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What is ProtonMail, the service used by Cambridge Analytica to cover its tracks?

sudshr47 March 21, 2018

If you’ve been out of the loop of the Facebook/privacy/Cambridge Analytica scandal that has ruled headlines over the past week, there’s a small yet incredibly important detail you may have missed.

Cambridge Analytica — the data analytics firm that came under fire this weekend for maliciously collecting information on 50 million Facebook users — reportedly used a self-destructing, encrypted email service called ProtonMail to cover its tracks, covering up correspondence between the company and third parties, according to a Channel 4 News investigation published Wednesday. The firm set emails to self-delete after two hours and urged clients to use the service as well, per footage captured of former CEO Alexander Nix talking to a journalist posing as a would-be client. Read more…

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Mark Zuckerberg breaks silence on Cambridge Analytica scandal, announces 3 big changes to Facebook

sudshr47 March 21, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally responded to the scandal involving data firm Cambridge Analytica, which has sparked a wave of cries to #DeleteFacebook.
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Here is how to delete Facebook

sudshr47 March 21, 2018

Some of us have been on Facebook for more than a decade, but all good things come to an end. Over the past eighteen months, Facebook has been in a downward spiral. The social network is in the eye of a controversy storm, with fake news, Russia’s meddling in the 2016 Presidential election, and misuse […]

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Facebook needs to stick up for its users. It’s past time for a public editor.

sudshr47 March 21, 2018

Facebook is facing hard questions following news that data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica deceived users and harvested information from 50 million profiles. But we already have the answer to one: Has Facebook learned from its mistakes? Nope.

That’s probably because Facebook doesn’t have a dedicated staffer — or public editor — looking out for the people who use the company’s service. Consider this: Cambridge Analytica’s data-scraping reportedly occurred in 2014, the same year Facebook made another fateful decision that it might not have if someone there was looking out for people like you and me. Read more…

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To understand Facebook’s betrayal, just look at my mom

sudshr47 March 21, 2018

Facebook makes my mother miserable. She knows it, and she’s disgusted with herself for nevertheless continuing to spend time scrolling through its endless updates. But I wish she knew that this seemingly self-sabotaging behavior is not her fault — it’s Facebook’s.

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica and Internet Research Agency revelations, I realized that I didn’t actually view Facebook’s misdeeds or the evolution of its platform as that shocking or nefarious. Instead, they felt to me as inevitable and bumbling mistakes made by naive and greedy business people; mining all of our data for profit, and underestimating what bad actors could do with that information, was more or less what I expected from them. Read more…

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After selling his company to Facebook for $19B, Brian Acton joins #deleteFacebook

sudshr47 March 21, 2018

Brian Acton, the co-founder of messaging service WhatsApp (which Facebook bought in 2014 for $19 billion), is now joining the chorus of the #deletefacebook movement. It is time. #deletefacebook — Brian Acton (@brianacton) March 20, 2018 A tipster alerted us to the fact that Acton made the same call… on Facebook… as well. Since the […]

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Zuck and Sandberg go M.I.A. as Congress summons Facebook leadership by name

sudshr47 March 20, 2018

The bad thing about making your face synonymous with the company you run: When you go M.I.A., everyone tends to notice. The callout posts began over the weekend. Normal Facebook users don’t always track the tech press outrage cycle, but a flurry of reporting on Facebook’s mishandling of the private data of 50 million users, […]

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Cambridge Analytica used self-destructing email to cover its tracks

sudshr47 March 20, 2018

When you’re in the self-described business of bribing politicians and influencing elections, it’s perhaps best not to leave a digital paper trail.

Cambridge Analytica has that all figured out.

According to a London Channel 4 investigation published today, the data analytics and electoral strategy firm that worked with the Trump presidential campaign used an encrypted email service to communicate with clients — and set email to self-delete after two hours.

So explained now-former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix, who was caught on hidden camera telling a journalist posing as a potential client that his company uses an email client called ProtonMail to proactively delete potential evidence. Read more…

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