I never had a facebook account and they make it harder and harder for me to get one.
Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too
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#62I hate to play the paranoia card, but this reads like a push from the government for Facebook to start cataloging people. If it wasn't happening already, this is probably the missing piece in court evidence to show that a person is who they really are. This is really, really dangerous (especially when the majority of their users probably aren't bright enough to understand the implications).
Well, Facebook is a catalog of people. Most of them use real identities. 15% of the world's population willingly share their lives online with full tracking available. It's a dream come true to any secret agency.
Push for real identities is beneficial to both - government and social networks. First get more control over their citizens, second more ad revenue.
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#63Did anyone read the purported FB message? "drivers liscense"
I trust FB to spell correctly and use the right apostrophe. Very interesting set of responses here though.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yikes, there are a lot of sleezy ads on that picknzip page. Like the "installIQ" version of 7-zip.
No reason to use a website like that, you can download your Facebook data directly from the source: https://www.facebook.com/help/131112897028467/
I don't think that gets photos of you that other people have taken, though.
If anybody knows a way to get that, let me know.
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#65The instagram TOS debacle some weeks ago was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I recently stopped using Instagram, and requested account deletion from Facebook. Graph search and its creepy implications were then nothing I needed to find personally objectionable anymore. I no longer have to complain about the other sleazy, move-the-goalposts, amoral aspects of Facebook Instagram. This latest one, I have to…
I have friends who work at Facebook. I still don't know how they rationalize their employment.
It sounds like you need to take a moment to consciously reflect on the fact that not everyone cares about privacy to the same extent you do. I don't just mean the privacy of others, but their own privacy as well. To many people, the loss of privacy that comes from being searchable is more than offset by the value they get out of Facebook.
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#66Soon they'll ask for a blood sample, and perhaps your genome. It's laughable how privacy is not taken seriously anymore.
Well, it's not Facebook who's doing the asking, but Facebook's closer than you might think to having genetic information: https://www.facebook.com/23andMe
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#67If social networks are so adamant, I will just create my website have all relatives and friends contact me via the said website. Or may be by email before social networks actually caught up.
This is the way it should be done. I will say that social networks like Facebook have introduced some interesting dynamics and engagement that could have not existed otherwise such as Caine's Arcade. I think we're all waiting for the social network we all want and pay the $10-$12/year for privacy, transparency and complete ownership over our data.
Isn't that what App.net is supposed to be? Or are there problems with it I can't identify (being too poor to deem $5 a month on a social network a valid expense).
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean, they needed something other than your birth date, birth place, real name, current residence, work history, current job, name of your parents, cousins, grandparents, not to mention the rest of your graph, to correlate you to a database somewhere?
The only thing FB has from me that is real or accurate is my birthday. All the other things you listed are either totally false or out of date. (Then again, I don't "friend" my family… IRL or online.) Until now-ish (or the near future), FB had no way of verifying that, or forcing me to!
How do you connect? If you aren't actively and intelligently taking precautions, they may well have enough network address history to be fairly definitive.
Also, do you block their widgets on other sites/pages?
Not that I disagree with the "Big Brother" concerns that this "Ihre Papiere, bitte." activity raises.
P.S. Aside from government(s), of what value is a proven identity to commercial interests? Being able to prove that you/they are targeting exactly who they want.
Hmm... Amongst other things, I understand that process servers are already attemtping to use FB as a accepted means of delivery. And I've read that debt collectors are using accounts having profile pictures of bikini clad young women, in order to successfully "friend" those they wish to hound.
All sorts of value to "proven" identities...
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know about them, but I know someone from a different company who has it all figured out. Every time their company does something nasty, they just donate to the EFF. Must be nice to have it wrapped up all tidy like.
Conscience offsetting.
Ugh. Very insightful.
It wouldn't surprise me if some startup starts trading conscience futures!
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#70People easily forget that Facebook was funded by the CIA and remains their biggest success in intelligence gathering.
[citation needed]
I think this is a reference to a story on The Onion:
http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatic...