Whatever Facebook is, and we know it well (see my article below) this is pure manipulation and the public are being led by the nose.
Polls show Facebook losing trust as firm uses ads to apologize
24 March, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO/LONDON
(Reuters) - Opinion polls published on Sunday in the United States
and Germany indicated that a majority of the public were losing trust
in Facebook over privacy, as the firm ran advertisements in British
and U.S. newspapers apologizing to users.
Fewer than half of
Americans trust Facebook to obey U.S. privacy laws, according to a
Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday, while a survey published by
Bild am Sonntag, Germany’s largest-selling Sunday paper, found 60
percent of Germans fear that Facebook and other social networks are
having a negative impact on democracy.
Facebook founder and
chief executive Mark Zuckerberg apologized for “a breach of trust”
in advertisements placed in papers including the Observer in Britain
and the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.
“We have a
responsibility to protect your information. If we can’t, we don’t
deserve it,” said the advertisement, which appeared in plain text
on a white background with a tiny Facebook logo.
The world’s largest
social media network is coming under growing government scrutiny in
Europe and the United States, and is trying to repair its reputation
among users, advertisers, lawmakers and investors.
This follows allegations
that the British consultancy Cambridge Analytica improperly gained
access to users’ information to build profiles of American voters
that were later used to help elect U.S. President Donald Trump in
2016.
U.S. Senator Mark Warner,
the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in an
interview on NBC’s Meet the Press” on Sunday that Facebook had
not been “fully forthcoming” over how Cambridge Analytica had
used Facebook data.
Warner repeated calls for
Zuckerberg to testify in person before U.S. lawmakers, saying
Facebook and other internet companies had been reluctant to confront
“the dark underbelly of social media” and how it can be
manipulated.
“BREACH OF TRUST”
Zuckerberg acknowledged
that an app built by a university researcher had “leaked Facebook
data of millions of people in 2014”.
“This was a breach of
trust, and I’m sorry we didn’t do more at the time,” Zuckerberg
said, reiterating an apology first made last week in U.S. television
interviews.
Facebook shares tumbled
14 percent last week, while the hashtag #DeleteFacebook gained
traction online.
The Reuters/Ipsos online
poll found that 41 percent of Americans trust Facebook to obey laws
that protect their personal information, compared with 66 percent who
said they trust Amazon.com Inc, 62 percent who trust Alphabet Inc’s
Google, 60 percent for Microsoft Corp.
The poll was conducted
from Wednesday through Friday and had 2,237 responses.
(reut.rs/2G9hvrv)
The German poll published
by Bild was conducted by Kantar EMNID, a unit of global advertising
holding company WPP, using representative polling methods, the firm
said. Overall, only 33 percent found social media had a positive
effect on democracy, against 60 percent who believed the opposite.
It is too early to say if
distrust will cause people to step back from Facebook, eMarketer
analyst Debra Williamson said in an interview. Customers of banks or
other industries do not necessarily quit after losing faith, she
said.
“It’s psychologically
harder to let go of a platform like Facebook that’s become pretty
well ingrained into people’s lives,” she said.
Data supplied to Reuters
by the Israeli firm SimilarWeb, which measures global online
audiences, indicated that Facebook usage in major markets and
worldwide remained steady over the past week.
“Desktop, mobile and
app usage has remained steady and well within the expected range,”
said Gitit Greenberg, SimilarWeb’s director of market insights. “It
is important to separate frustration from actual tangible impacts to
Facebook usage.”
An experiment
A
large part of Facebook’s business model is selling the information
it collects about users to advertisers. It’s free to us because
we’re the product. Its algorithms track your posts, likes, shares,
and preferences, of course, but they also track your overall Internet
activity — the websites you go to, your operating system, your IP
address, and comments you happen to leave on random forums — via
social media plugins and cookies on third-party websites. Even if
you’re not logged into Facebook, your browsing behavior is tracked
by secret trackers called Pixels, which are embedded on over 10,000
websites.
Sorry, social media Luddites — even if you’ve never used
Facebook, your online activity is tracked everytime you merely visit
a website that contains Facebook ads and trackers.
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Robin
Westenra
I don't use a smartphone but have been using Skype to make calls. All the details of every call I have made is there.
Facebook’s
‘Secret’ File on You Is Bigger Than You Think
Facebook’s
user data gathering prowess has been common knowledge for some time
now, but one journalist’s impromptu experiment suggests it is even
more ubiquitous and pervasive than previously believed. Nick Whigham,a reporter for the New Zealand Herald, decided to test out a feature
on Facebook that allows users to download a ‘secret’ file showing
how much personal history the company has gathered about them. What
he discovered is that Facebook not only has disturbingly vast
consumer profiles on all 1.4 billion daily users but also tracks the
internet movement and personalities of people who don’t even log
into the website
I decided to do this experiment for myself and went through these instructions and within a short period of time I was able to peruse all the information that Facebook has on me and is sold on to 3rd parties.
"To download your ‘secret’ Facebook file, click at the top right of Facebook’s navigation bar and select Settings. Then click “Download a copy of your Facebook data” beneath General Account Settings and click the green button. Then wait ten minutes and you should receive an email letting you know that “surveillance capitalism” is alive and well."
If you are a friend on Facebook you're right there!
All the apps I have installed on my computers are there - even the ones I've forgotten about
All the phone details of everyone I know (and also don't know) is available
Robin
Westenra
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We all know that the police or security agents can go to our providers to get details of our cellphone and landline calls.
But here we are - this information is available, not just to police, but to anyone who pays for it.
Call History
Number:+6421878711
Number:+64275027519
Number:+64274838303
Number:+64211687727
| Call Type | Start time | Duration | Name | Number Label | Number Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OUTGOING | 2017-02-15 19:46:47 | 0 | 0 |
| Call Type | Start time | Duration | Name | Number Label | Number Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MISSED | 2017-02-09 17:54:16 | 0 | 0 |
| Call Type | Start time | Duration | Name | Number Label | Number Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INCOMING | 2016-11-18 16:34:36 | 74 | 0 |
| Call Type | Start time | Duration | Name | Number Label | Number Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OUTGOING | 2010-01-06 01:44:00 | 0 | 0 |
SMS History
Number:7246
Number:+64211466421
Number:+64210381977
Number:+64211687727
Number:+64274406999
| SMS Type | Time |
|---|---|
| INBOX | 2016-12-03 15:04:53 |
| INBOX | 2016-12-18 12:40:47 |
| SMS Type | Time |
|---|---|
| INBOX | 2016-12-06 20:35:26 |
| SENT | 2016-12-06 20:36:59 |
| SMS Type | Time |
|---|---|
| INBOX | 2016-11-14 20:25:34 |
| SMS Type | Time |
|---|---|
| SENT | 2010-01-06 01:55:21 |
| SENT | 2010-01-05 21:02:58 |
| SENT | 2010-01-05 21:02:30 |
| INBOX | 2010-01-06 01:52:16 |
The details of every message sent or received on Messenger (that we might have naively thought was private - except to the NSA et.al) is logged.
An example....
Here are "active sessions", along with ISP addresses
CONCLUSION
This is information that I can get about myself by applying to Facebook - with minimum security by the way.
Put this information into the hands of others and they can put together a personal profile and know more about me than I know about myself!
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