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FB has a terrible reputation with regards to privacy without real justification. This is not supprising in any way. If you don't like this then don't do FaceBook - realy that easy I have found.
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It sounds like your friend got trolled. We don't call users whom we suspect are criminals, and we certainly wouldn't call someone we suspect of being a terrorist. Especially on the grounds of a terrorism joke - believe it or not, we do have a sense of humor. I work for Facebook's User Operations team and, as the Reuters article says, this specific tool targets the (thankfully) rare cases of adults trying to use the s…
You shouldn't be striving for a low false positive rate, but for a zero false positive rate. "Think of the children" doesn't rationalize even one wrongly accused person - especially in today's society where an accusation is enough to completely ruin ones life.
A false negative could ruin the child's life just as easily, so I suspect most parents might think that's more important. It's not necessary to choose either "privacy uber alles" or "think of the children". As with most things in life, there's likely a good balance somewhere between the extremes.
I'm of the opinion that once enough people get fed up with a surveillance state, or even a surveillance society since private entities are involved, that the best way to "fix" the problem is by collectively generating noise that makes it too expensive and time consuming to find a needle in a haystack. Right now they probably generate very few false positives, however if many people went out of their way to actively g…
I was once informed by an FB employee that federal agents are ensconced at the FB premises to monitor users' communications and shut down / censor FB groups and venues for "hate" speech and terroristic threats.
What position did this Facebook employee hold at the company? In which office did they work? Is it possible they weren't really a Facebook employee? What sort of censorship are you talking about? I ask because I've never heard anything like that, despite working with the teams that build tools to fight spam, scams, fake accounts, and to assist the User Operations team to handle reports from people who encounter haras…
Does anyone know a site where all of the scary things (civil rights and privacy violations) that are going on have been aggregated? I sometimes get people asking why I’m not on Facebook. It would be nice to have a place to point people to about why because it’s quite difficult to explain normally.
All the more reason to use encryption technology like Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging ( http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr )! I've been working on an OTR-compatible iOS app called ChatSecure ( https://chatsecure.org ) that is capable of encrypting your Facebook chats (or any other XMPP service).
Also single view message services, like: https://www.thismessagewillselfdestruct.com/ https://onetimesecret.com/ https://pwpush.com/ https://whisperpassword.com/
I'm not a criminal, I am a a pretty mundane guy actually, but of course we live in a society that every single one of us breaks some small law every day. Which is why I stopped using Facebook. I also stopped using Twitter to tweet. I still use it to follow news sources, I just don't actively tweet. I did that after the NYPD won a court case to see all the private messages you send on Twitter. I also don't comment muc…
> I am gonna be completely honest, I am scared to express myself any longer on the Internet in any fashion. I don't trust it any longer. I don't trust the police, I don't trust the FBI, I don't trust the federal government, and I also don't trust, nor have faith, in the justice system in the United States. I moved out of the country four years ago for this very reason. The rule of law is gone. It is unsafe to live th…
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Does anyone know a site where all of the scary things (civil rights and privacy violations) that are going on have been aggregated? I sometimes get people asking why I’m not on Facebook. It would be nice to have a place to point people to about why because it’s quite difficult to explain normally.
https://www.eff.org/issues/privacy
The issues list in the sidebar digs into each topic a little bit more deeply (cell tracking, biometrics, etc.)
Never assume anything you send online is private. If the service isn't monitoring you, your friends are. And if not your friends, then the people who share your friends' computers, or anyone who comes into possssion of it, have he potential to expose your communications. And while this has always been the case ever since letter writing, electronic communication is so much easier to parse and distribute and copy on bu…
(well, I did because I participated in GSoC, and they needed my address to pay me, which I decided was worth it for me! Etc. etc.)
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Also single view message services, like: https://www.thismessagewillselfdestruct.com/ https://onetimesecret.com/ https://pwpush.com/ https://whisperpassword.com/
The problem with all of these services is you have to trust them as well. The most secure message is the one not sent.