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Posting a notice on your Facebook wall will not protect your privacy rights

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Re: Posting a notice on your Facebook wall will not protect your privacy rights

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Post by snowwrestler »

Shenglong wrote: post #6
dfxm12 wrote: post #2

The fact is that I'm not sure that people totally believe what they are doing will hold up in a court of law. The thought that it might and it is so easy to do, coupled with the herd mentality (all of their friends are doing it), make posting something like this seem to have no downside, but only upside. After all, wouldn't you hate to be the one rube whose privacy is invaded because you didn't simply post something…

Your last point is actually quite alarming: I have often been told that in order to be successful, I should surround myself with people much smarter than I am. But, when I see all these Facebook notices and FREE $500 COSTCO GIFT CARD shares, I can't seem to shake the feeling that I have thus failed in life.

I get some of the weirdest Facebook posts from folks who I know are very smart--like professional musicians and Ph.D. researchers. They're very accomplished in their fields, but just haven't spend enough time online to develop "street smarts" about these things like we have.

Re: Posting a notice on your Facebook wall will not protect your privacy rights

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Post by rmc »

pixelcort wrote: post #9

This reminds me of the "No copyright intended" quote people would put on YouTube videos.

That phenomenon is actual quite interesting. It shows that lots of people have one view of what is right & wrong, and think that copyright is what they think is right. People think there is nothing wrong with uploading a video of them dancing in a funny way to a popular song if you don't claim the song is yours and youre not making money off it. Thus they think its not against copyright to do that.

The law has a different interpretation.

The fact that lots of people have a different interpretation of what counts as unethical use might mean the law will change

Re: Posting a notice on your Facebook wall will not protect your privacy rights

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Post by nckbz »

pessimizer wrote: post #29
Shenglong wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your last point is actually quite alarming: I have often been told that in order to be successful, I should surround myself with people much smarter than I am. But, when I see all these Facebook notices and FREE $500 COSTCO GIFT CARD shares, I can't seem to shake the feeling that I have thus failed in life.

That's the main reason I quit facebook. It made me think badly of people that I had fond memories of.

I'm up voting this because I feel similar. However, I'm not sure if I feel Facebook is the main issue at play.

Re: Posting a notice on your Facebook wall will not protect your privacy rights

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Post by cloverich »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #20
ck2 wrote: post #8

That little thing (sometimes huge thing) people put at the end of their emails that "this is confidential" is also pointless as you cannot enter into a confidentiality agreement that way.

That's an interesting point. A while ago I got an email that was clearly not intended for me with some big confidentiality warning on the bottom. So I did as it said, deleted the email and informed the sender. Got a reply back saying "oh, sorry it was intended for xxx@xxx.com". So then I get another one a few days later, this time I deleted it and forwarded it to the intended recipient. Then I informed the sender aga…

Next reply you should ask for a raise?

Re: Posting a notice on your Facebook wall will not protect your privacy rights

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Post by jiggy2011 »

snowwrestler wrote: post #31
Shenglong wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your last point is actually quite alarming: I have often been told that in order to be successful, I should surround myself with people much smarter than I am. But, when I see all these Facebook notices and FREE $500 COSTCO GIFT CARD shares, I can't seem to shake the feeling that I have thus failed in life.

I get some of the weirdest Facebook posts from folks who I know are very smart--like professional musicians and Ph.D. researchers. They're very accomplished in their fields, but just haven't spend enough time online to develop "street smarts" about these things like we have.

The same is true for me, I don't use FB but I've seen over the shoulder of it being used by people who would be on my friends list should I use it.

These are often pretty smart people but they seem to mainly use FB for cat memes , pictures of food and the sort of "nerd humour" you might find on reddit.

Re: Posting a notice on your Facebook wall will not protect your privacy rights

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Post by steevdave »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #20
ck2 wrote: post #8

That little thing (sometimes huge thing) people put at the end of their emails that "this is confidential" is also pointless as you cannot enter into a confidentiality agreement that way.

That's an interesting point. A while ago I got an email that was clearly not intended for me with some big confidentiality warning on the bottom. So I did as it said, deleted the email and informed the sender. Got a reply back saying "oh, sorry it was intended for xxx@xxx.com". So then I get another one a few days later, this time I deleted it and forwarded it to the intended recipient. Then I informed the sender aga…

I get these too, except it's a cell phone bill for someone in Malaysia. I've tried repeatedly contacting someone at the company but all mails to them get returned as mailbox is full (it's 2012, how is anyone's mailbox full!?) and so they continue. I've even tried tweeting them but no luck. At this point I just mark it as spam, so sorry anyone in Malaysia that uses Celcom if your bills are going in to your spam folders.

Re: Posting a notice on your Facebook wall will not protect your privacy rights

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Post by rickmb »

As a citizen of the EU and a country with strong privacy protection, my privacy rights are protected by law, and neither Facebook's terms nor the fact that any other entity can collect certain information from Facebook negates that right.

The claims by Snopes are equally false: whatever Facebook terms a user may have accepted whenever, they are trumped by the law. You can't give up your civil rights with single click.

Re: Posting a notice on your Facebook wall will not protect your privacy rights

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Post by bpatrianakos »

code_duck wrote: post #24

This is the third wave I've seen of this on facebook... at least it's better worded this time. This pretty much proves what many of us knew: the average person has absolutely no idea about copyright or TOS agreements, and what rights they have or are signing away.

I think it proves that people will post any copy pasted message you ask them to. Its like those chain emails from back in the day except even more pointless.

Re: Posting a notice on your Facebook wall will not protect your privacy rights

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Post by praptak »

tolos wrote: post #14

So is "liking" something you don't -- intentionally corrupting their business (data) -- going to cause any repercussions?

Nope, as long as you post a magic disclaimer on your wall and also forward it to 20 friends. Shall you forget to forward it, very bad things will happen to you.
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