There is a '/etc/hosts' blocklist here: https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporatio... in case you do not want facebook on your computer...
Facebook is terrifying
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#152Its not just faces .. me and a friend had a little jam session recently and posted a picture of our cool little setup, consisting of a few pocket-sized machines (synthesizers and controllers) on our table in front of us. Just an innocent little picture of our jam setup. Within seconds of posting this picture of the machines, my friend was getting targeted ads from the manufacturers of those devices - within seconds!…
I had a similar moment (and ironically I'm a musician too). I went to a bar, where a band was playing on stage... After a while I realized I know the drummer. I played with him before, in another band, years ago. We had a beer, chatted a bit and went home. Now, we hadn't posted any pictures, nor statuses, we have no mutual friends on facebook, no connection at all... Heck, Facebook DIDN'T EVEN EXIST when I last saw h…
I used to play a phone game and utilized mock locations for area specific content. Later, Facebook would suggest friends from the specific location I had spoofed, despite having never once set foot there or having ever known anyone from the area.
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#153There is a '/etc/hosts' blocklist here: https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporatio... in case you do not want facebook on your computer...
But that doesn't address the issue mentioned in the article, unless everyone around you uses that hosts file.
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#154sounds like the plan then is to confuse facebook's deepface. Just mis-tag everybody you know & care about.
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#156"If you're not paying, you are the product" It used to be that the law couldn't catch up with the fast change in technology, now it's us the people that can't keep up. All my friends using Facebook don't comprehend what is going on, it's just pictures right? The idea that FB is creating highly detailed profiles of every user, and selling them to anyone who will pay, is just dismissed as a joke. What good can come fro…
That's because they are not selling those very pictures to anyone who'll pay.
They (facebook) are the middle men - people who have money come to them to sell their product, and facebook knows who to show those products too.
your friends (and mine, and a huge percentage of facebook's userbase) trust facebook enough for that to happen.
And it does not help anyone's cause when people say "X company (be it Google, Facebook etc.) are selling your info".
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#157"If you're not paying, you are the product" It used to be that the law couldn't catch up with the fast change in technology, now it's us the people that can't keep up. All my friends using Facebook don't comprehend what is going on, it's just pictures right? The idea that FB is creating highly detailed profiles of every user, and selling them to anyone who will pay, is just dismissed as a joke. What good can come fro…
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#158I can't get into my Facebook account right now because it's prompting me with a request to provide government-issued ID (eg, drivers license, passport) to verify me. Suffice it to say, I am no longer on Facebook.
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#159I'm almost 100% positive that some of your best and brightest employees working in critical divisions at Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc. are NSA moles. I have zero proof but it's what I'd setup if I was part NSA leadership. Just think about what that means for our data.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facial recognition software can only recognize you if your face is already in the database and identified as you. It's not going to magically know your identity otherwise, no matter how sophisticated it is. On the other hand, I guess it could do some inference, such as: person X seen at location Y is also seen going in to residence Z every evening and coming out of the same residence every morning for the last 6 mont…
> Facial recognition software can only recognize you if your face is already in the database and identified as you. Right, which is exactly what would happen if law enforcement/governments could access FB's database.
Government already has a huge database of photos with name tags attached: the photos you submit when you want to get a passport, drivers license, or any other form of ID.