Wow looks like my calls have been accurate. I am now going to call for boycott of leongsam’s courtyard full of houseflies, rats and cockroaches and open a garden instead to welcome beautiful butterflies, dragonflies and fireflies.
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Wow looks like my calls have been accurate. I am now going to call for boycott of leongsam’s courtyard full of houseflies, rats and cockroaches and open a garden instead to welcome beautiful butterflies, dragonflies and fireflies.
And should get a moderator with a beautiful mind to grow the Garden. Not power abusers zhihau and froggy.
Fucking hilarious. All the social media platforms are all the same, sell user data to make money, and Instagram is owned by Facebook anyway.
Communist chink social media goes one step further. They help HRM-11 to collect each and every chink's social credit scores for free.
amazon is another massive personal data miner with its alexa shit. it’s now constantly spamming me with ads 24 by 7 after i created an account with amazon to provide a courtesy review of an ebook written by a relative.
Gay Phone Bapok also dump FB
https://gizmodo.com/tim-cook-takes-his-turn-to-dunk-on-facebook-backing-da-1824052120
Apple
Tim Cook Takes His Turn to Dunk on Facebook, Backing Data Privacy Regulations
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Mark Zuckerberg and his data-hoarding creation Facebook remain in the crosshairs this week as scrutiny over its Cambridge Analytica profile-scraping scandal continues to mount, with the social media giant’s stock price falling by over 13 percent this week.
So it’s not surprising that some of his fellow tech moguls are taking Zuckerberg’s moment of vulnerability to take some potshots. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk very publicly deleted his companies’ Facebook accounts this week, though it’s unclear whether the move will be permanent. (Might have something to do with bad blood over that satellite of Zuckerberg’s he accidentally blew up.) Now Apple CEO Tim Cook, whose brand has long positioned itself as privacy-conscious, is publicly calling for Facebook to be regulated.
Per Bloomberg, while at Beijing’s China Development Forum on Saturday, Cook said he believed the situation was “dire” and dramatic action needed to be taken:
“I think that this certain situation is so dire and has become so large that probably some well-crafted regulation is necessary,” Cook said after being asked if the use of data should be restricted in light of the Facebook incident. “The ability of anyone to know what you’ve been browsing about for years, who your contacts are, who their contacts are, things you like and dislike and every intimate detail of your life — from my own point of view it shouldn’t exist.”
Cook added:
“We’ve worried for a number of years that people in many countries were giving up data probably without knowing fully what they were doing and that these detailed profiles that were being built of them, that one day something would occur and people would be incredibly offended by what had been done without them being aware of it,” he said. “Unfortunately that prediction has come true more than once.”
Cook has more than a small point here—the amount of data Facebook has compiled on its users is best described as Orwellian. Everything that makes the site useful essentially exists as a pretext to keep users offering up more and more of their personal information to Facebook, which currently controls somewhere around one out of every five digital ad dollars spent in the country. A few months ago it was even testing a seemingly innocent “Did You Know” plugin in what seemed to be a test of how much further the company could cloak asking potentially revealing questions as a fun little game. There’s open speculation as to whether Cambridge Analytica is really the only company to abscond with huge amounts of Facebook user data or whether it’s merely the tip of the iceberg.
In a recent CNN interview, even Zuckerberg admitted that perhaps the company should face some regulation, though he was careful to offer only minor concessions like transparency for political ads. But Cook appears to be calling for something more dramatic like stringent transparency and proactive user consent requirements, even though as a member of the ultra-wealthy set the chances of him calling for something like treating Facebook like a public utility or antitrust proceedings are probably nil. Cook’s words might also come off as a little insincere given Apple’s willingness to play by the rules of Chinese censors, though the company claims to not really have a choice between complying or losing its market access there.
[Bloomberg]
https://gizmodo.com/tim-cook-takes-his-turn-to-dunk-on-facebook-backing-da-1824052120
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Tim Cook Takes His Turn to Dunk on Facebook, Backing Data Privacy Regulations
Tom McKay
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Photo: AP
Mark Zuckerberg and his data-hoarding creation Facebook remain in the crosshairs this week as scrutiny over its Cambridge Analytica profile-scraping scandal continues to mount, with the social media giant’s stock price falling by over 13 percent this week.
So it’s not surprising that some of his fellow tech moguls are taking Zuckerberg’s moment of vulnerability to take some potshots. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk very publicly deleted his companies’ Facebook accounts this week, though it’s unclear whether the move will be permanent. (Might have something to do with bad blood over that satellite of Zuckerberg’s he accidentally blew up.) Now Apple CEO Tim Cook, whose brand has long positioned itself as privacy-conscious, is publicly calling for Facebook to be regulated.
Per Bloomberg, while at Beijing’s China Development Forum on Saturday, Cook said he believed the situation was “dire” and dramatic action needed to be taken:
“I think that this certain situation is so dire and has become so large that probably some well-crafted regulation is necessary,” Cook said after being asked if the use of data should be restricted in light of the Facebook incident. “The ability of anyone to know what you’ve been browsing about for years, who your contacts are, who their contacts are, things you like and dislike and every intimate detail of your life — from my own point of view it shouldn’t exist.”
Cook added:
“We’ve worried for a number of years that people in many countries were giving up data probably without knowing fully what they were doing and that these detailed profiles that were being built of them, that one day something would occur and people would be incredibly offended by what had been done without them being aware of it,” he said. “Unfortunately that prediction has come true more than once.”
Cook has more than a small point here—the amount of data Facebook has compiled on its users is best described as Orwellian. Everything that makes the site useful essentially exists as a pretext to keep users offering up more and more of their personal information to Facebook, which currently controls somewhere around one out of every five digital ad dollars spent in the country. A few months ago it was even testing a seemingly innocent “Did You Know” plugin in what seemed to be a test of how much further the company could cloak asking potentially revealing questions as a fun little game. There’s open speculation as to whether Cambridge Analytica is really the only company to abscond with huge amounts of Facebook user data or whether it’s merely the tip of the iceberg.
In a recent CNN interview, even Zuckerberg admitted that perhaps the company should face some regulation, though he was careful to offer only minor concessions like transparency for political ads. But Cook appears to be calling for something more dramatic like stringent transparency and proactive user consent requirements, even though as a member of the ultra-wealthy set the chances of him calling for something like treating Facebook like a public utility or antitrust proceedings are probably nil. Cook’s words might also come off as a little insincere given Apple’s willingness to play by the rules of Chinese censors, though the company claims to not really have a choice between complying or losing its market access there.
[Bloomberg]
FB MUST DIE!
A worse SPY than STASI !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
Stasi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the secret police of East Germany. For its other common meaning, see Stasi Commission. For the regular police in East Germany, see Volkspolizei.
Ministry for State Security
Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS)
Seal of the Ministry of State Security of the GDR
Agency overview
Formed 8 February 1950
Dissolved 13 January 1990[1]
Type Secret police, Intelligence agency
Headquarters East Berlin, GDR
Motto Schild und Schwert der Partei
(Shield and sword of the Party)
Employees 91,015 (1989)[2]
Agency executives
One of its main tasks was spying on the population, mainly through a vast network of citizens turned informants, and fighting any opposition by overt and covert measures, including hidden psychological destruction of dissidents (Zersetzung, literally meaning decomposition). Its Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (German: Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung) was responsible for both espionage and for conducting covert operations in foreign countries. Under its long-time head Markus Wolf, this directorate gained a reputation as one of the most effective intelligence agencies of the Cold War.
Numerous Stasi officials were prosecuted for their crimes after 1990. After German reunification, the surveillance files that the Stasi had maintained on millions of East Germans were laid open, so that any citizen could inspect their personal file on request; these files are now maintained by the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/25/17160944/facebook-call-history-sms-data-collection-android
Facebook has been collecting call history and SMS data from Android devices
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iOS devices appear to be unaffected
By Tom Warren@tomwarren Mar 25, 2018, 8:00am EDT
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Facebook has been collecting call records and SMS data from Android devices for years. Several Twitter users have reported finding months or years of call history data in their downloadable Facebook data file. A number of Facebook users have been spooked by the recent Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, prompting them to download all the data that Facebook stores on their account. The results have been alarming for some.
“Oh wow my deleted Facebook Zip file contains info on every single phone cellphone call and text I made for about a year,” says Twitter user Mat Johnson. Another, Dylan McKay, says “somehow it has my entire call history with my partner’s mum.” Others have found a similar pattern where it appears close contacts, like family members, are the only ones tracked in Facebook’s call records.
Ars Technica reports that Facebook has been requesting access to contacts, SMS data, and call history on Android devices to improve its friend recommendation algorithm and distinguish between business contacts and your true personal friendships. Facebook appears to be gathering this data through its Messenger application, which often prompts Android users to take over as the default SMS client. Facebook has, at least recently, been offering an opt-in prompt that prods users with a big blue button to “continuously upload” contact data, including call and text history. It’s not clear when this prompt started appearing in relation to the historical data gathering, and whether it has simply been opt-in the whole time. Either way, it’s clearly alarmed some who have found call history data stored on Facebook’s servers.
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Facebook’s contacts upload warning
Facebook hasn’t been able to collect this data on iPhones thanks to Apple’s privacy controls
While the recent prompts make it clear, Ars Technica points out the troubling aspect that Facebook has been doing this for years, during a time when Android permissions were a lot less strict. Google changed Android permissions to make them more clear and granular, but developers could bypass this and continue accessing call and SMS data until Google deprecated the old Android API in October. It’s not yet clear if these prompts have been in place in the past.
Facebook has responded to the findings, but the company appears to suggest it’s normal for apps to access your phone call history when you upload contacts to social apps. “The most important part of apps and services that help you make connections is to make it easy to find the people you want to connect with,” says a Facebook spokesperson, in response to a query from Ars Technica. “So, the first time you sign in on your phone to a messaging or social app, it’s a widely used practice to begin by uploading your phone contacts.”
The same call record and SMS data collection has not yet been discovered on iOS devices. While Apple does allow some specialist apps to access this data in limited ways like blocking spam calls or texts, these apps have to be specifically enabled through a process that’s similar to enabling third-party keyboards. The majority of iOS apps cannot access call history or SMS messages, and Facebook’s iOS app is not able to capture this data on an iPhone.
Facebook may need to answer some additional questions on this data collection, especially around when it started and whether Android users truly understood what data they were allowing Facebook to collect when they agreed to enable phone and SMS access in an Android permissions dialogue box or Facebook’s own prompt.
The data collection revelations come in the same week Facebook has been dealing with the fall out from Cambridge Analytica obtaining personal information from up to 50 million Facebook users. Facebook has altered its privacy controls in recent years to prevent such an event occurring again, but the company is facing a backlash of criticism over the inadequate privacy controls that allowed this to happen. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also been summoned to explain how data was taken without users’ consent to a UK Parliamentary committee.
Update, 11:30AM ET: Article updated to provide more information on the opt-in dialogue box.
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A worse SPY than STASI !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
Stasi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the secret police of East Germany. For its other common meaning, see Stasi Commission. For the regular police in East Germany, see Volkspolizei.
Ministry for State Security
Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS)
Seal of the Ministry of State Security of the GDR
Agency overview
Formed 8 February 1950
Dissolved 13 January 1990[1]
Type Secret police, Intelligence agency
Headquarters East Berlin, GDR
Motto Schild und Schwert der Partei
(Shield and sword of the Party)
Employees 91,015 (1989)[2]
Agency executives
- Wilhelm Zaisser (1950–1953)
- Ernst Wollweber (1953–1957)
- Erich Mielke (1957–1989)
- Wolfgang Schwanitz (1989–1990)
One of its main tasks was spying on the population, mainly through a vast network of citizens turned informants, and fighting any opposition by overt and covert measures, including hidden psychological destruction of dissidents (Zersetzung, literally meaning decomposition). Its Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (German: Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung) was responsible for both espionage and for conducting covert operations in foreign countries. Under its long-time head Markus Wolf, this directorate gained a reputation as one of the most effective intelligence agencies of the Cold War.
Numerous Stasi officials were prosecuted for their crimes after 1990. After German reunification, the surveillance files that the Stasi had maintained on millions of East Germans were laid open, so that any citizen could inspect their personal file on request; these files are now maintained by the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/25/17160944/facebook-call-history-sms-data-collection-android
Facebook has been collecting call history and SMS data from Android devices
77 comments
iOS devices appear to be unaffected
By Tom Warren@tomwarren Mar 25, 2018, 8:00am EDT
Share
Facebook has been collecting call records and SMS data from Android devices for years. Several Twitter users have reported finding months or years of call history data in their downloadable Facebook data file. A number of Facebook users have been spooked by the recent Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, prompting them to download all the data that Facebook stores on their account. The results have been alarming for some.
“Oh wow my deleted Facebook Zip file contains info on every single phone cellphone call and text I made for about a year,” says Twitter user Mat Johnson. Another, Dylan McKay, says “somehow it has my entire call history with my partner’s mum.” Others have found a similar pattern where it appears close contacts, like family members, are the only ones tracked in Facebook’s call records.
Ars Technica reports that Facebook has been requesting access to contacts, SMS data, and call history on Android devices to improve its friend recommendation algorithm and distinguish between business contacts and your true personal friendships. Facebook appears to be gathering this data through its Messenger application, which often prompts Android users to take over as the default SMS client. Facebook has, at least recently, been offering an opt-in prompt that prods users with a big blue button to “continuously upload” contact data, including call and text history. It’s not clear when this prompt started appearing in relation to the historical data gathering, and whether it has simply been opt-in the whole time. Either way, it’s clearly alarmed some who have found call history data stored on Facebook’s servers.
Facebook’s contacts upload warning
Facebook hasn’t been able to collect this data on iPhones thanks to Apple’s privacy controls
While the recent prompts make it clear, Ars Technica points out the troubling aspect that Facebook has been doing this for years, during a time when Android permissions were a lot less strict. Google changed Android permissions to make them more clear and granular, but developers could bypass this and continue accessing call and SMS data until Google deprecated the old Android API in October. It’s not yet clear if these prompts have been in place in the past.
Facebook has responded to the findings, but the company appears to suggest it’s normal for apps to access your phone call history when you upload contacts to social apps. “The most important part of apps and services that help you make connections is to make it easy to find the people you want to connect with,” says a Facebook spokesperson, in response to a query from Ars Technica. “So, the first time you sign in on your phone to a messaging or social app, it’s a widely used practice to begin by uploading your phone contacts.”
The same call record and SMS data collection has not yet been discovered on iOS devices. While Apple does allow some specialist apps to access this data in limited ways like blocking spam calls or texts, these apps have to be specifically enabled through a process that’s similar to enabling third-party keyboards. The majority of iOS apps cannot access call history or SMS messages, and Facebook’s iOS app is not able to capture this data on an iPhone.
Facebook may need to answer some additional questions on this data collection, especially around when it started and whether Android users truly understood what data they were allowing Facebook to collect when they agreed to enable phone and SMS access in an Android permissions dialogue box or Facebook’s own prompt.
The data collection revelations come in the same week Facebook has been dealing with the fall out from Cambridge Analytica obtaining personal information from up to 50 million Facebook users. Facebook has altered its privacy controls in recent years to prevent such an event occurring again, but the company is facing a backlash of criticism over the inadequate privacy controls that allowed this to happen. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also been summoned to explain how data was taken without users’ consent to a UK Parliamentary committee.
Update, 11:30AM ET: Article updated to provide more information on the opt-in dialogue box.
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FB says yes we copied your private data but you already granted us permission! Thank you SUCKERS!
https://www.slashgear.com/facebook-android-contacts-call-text-logging-permissions-25524307/
Facebook: You said we could have that Android data
Chris Davies - Mar 25, 2018
Facebook has pushed back at reports that it scraped call and SMS text message history on Android phones, arguing that users gave them permission to save the contentious logs. The controversy began when Facebook users requested exports of the data the social network had on them; when they opened the download, they discovered years of metadata including call history and more.
Several other Android users have confirmed the findings. Not only were the phone numbers contacted through the Android phone client included, but the names of the contacts, the length of the calls, and whether they were outgoing, incoming, or missed. The log also included text history, despite that not being made through a Facebook app.
Unsurprisingly, given the heightened attention currently around Facebook’s approach to privacy, the discovery did not reverberate well among Android users. Facebook was already under attack over earlier policies around its third-party apps API, which had been used to extract the personal data not only of individuals using those apps but, as a surprise to many, all of those individuals’ friends on the site too. A cache of such data – amounting to around 50m people – was passed to Cambridge Analytica, the British research firm that has become controversial for its voter targeting work with both the Trump campaign in the 2016 US election and the earlier Brexit vote in the UK.
Now, Facebook insists, it didn’t actually do anything wrong with the call and text history logging – indeed, Android owners would’ve known all about it, had they only read the fine print. “Call and text history logging is part of an opt-in feature for people using Messenger or Facebook Lite on Android,” the company said in a “fact check” today. “Contact importers are fairly common among social apps and services as a way to more easily find the people you want to connect with. This was first introduced in Messenger in 2015, and later offered as an option in Facebook Lite, a lightweight version of Facebook for Android.”
The feature in question is used to quickly populate Facebook Messenger or Facebook Lite on Android devices, based on a user’s contacts. When an Android user signs up for Messenger or Facebook Lite, or logs into Messenger on their device, they’re presented with the option to upload contacts, call, and text history. “This lets friends find each other on Facebook,” the company suggests.
Certainly, the option is given to skip that step. In Messenger, as well as enabling it, there are options to “learn more” about the tool, or “not now”; choosing the latter skips to the next step in the configuration process. On Facebook Lite, it can be turned on or skipped.
“If, at any point, you no longer wish to continuously upload this information, you can easily turn this feature off in your settings,” Facebook points out today. “You can also to turn off continuous call and text history logging while keeping contact uploading enabled.”
Facebook does not, however, give explicit reasons as to why it collects the text and call history data. While it is true that, as the company points out, many messaging apps and social networks use uploaded contacts to speed the process of populating a new friends list, using call and messaging logs is arguably far less common. It also does not make clear during the setup process that contacts upload can be used but without also enabling call and text logging as well, and doing so requires sifting through the settings after the fact.
Certainly, from an End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) standpoint – the contract which Android phone owners agree to when they use the app – Facebook seems to be in the clear. After all, the nature of the contacts uploading system have been detailed there, should anybody care to read through it. From a user-friendliness point of view, however, it’s hard to imagine that even a fraction of Facebook users ever went to the effort of reading through the EULA, and it’s questionable whether the information the company offered during its setup process was comprehensive enough to make clear to users what, exactly, they were agreeing to.
Facebook insists that the information it stores does not include the contents of calls or messaging, and it promises that the data wasn’t sold to third party firms. It’s also possible to see what contact data you’ve uploaded, and delete them through Facebook’s site. If, however, you haven’t also turned off the continuous uploading setting in the Messenger app or Facebook Lite on your phone, of course, then it will repopulate those contacts. Update: Facebook has told us that deleting those contacts also deletes the call and messaging logs, even though they’re not explicitly referred to on the page.
Arguably, though Facebook may well be in the clear legally, the Cambridge Analytica saga has toppled over beyond just the laws around data collection. For all that the EULA details what users can expect in terms of their personal data being uploaded, stored, and shared, lawmakers and privacy advocates have now begun to question whether even that is sufficient given the potential for misuse that data, in aggregate, presents. In Europe, such concerns prompted the passing of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which will be enforced in May 2018 and that enacts legal requirements for privacy, breach notifications, and more.
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https://www.slashgear.com/facebook-android-contacts-call-text-logging-permissions-25524307/
Facebook: You said we could have that Android data
Chris Davies - Mar 25, 2018
Facebook has pushed back at reports that it scraped call and SMS text message history on Android phones, arguing that users gave them permission to save the contentious logs. The controversy began when Facebook users requested exports of the data the social network had on them; when they opened the download, they discovered years of metadata including call history and more.
Several other Android users have confirmed the findings. Not only were the phone numbers contacted through the Android phone client included, but the names of the contacts, the length of the calls, and whether they were outgoing, incoming, or missed. The log also included text history, despite that not being made through a Facebook app.
Unsurprisingly, given the heightened attention currently around Facebook’s approach to privacy, the discovery did not reverberate well among Android users. Facebook was already under attack over earlier policies around its third-party apps API, which had been used to extract the personal data not only of individuals using those apps but, as a surprise to many, all of those individuals’ friends on the site too. A cache of such data – amounting to around 50m people – was passed to Cambridge Analytica, the British research firm that has become controversial for its voter targeting work with both the Trump campaign in the 2016 US election and the earlier Brexit vote in the UK.
Now, Facebook insists, it didn’t actually do anything wrong with the call and text history logging – indeed, Android owners would’ve known all about it, had they only read the fine print. “Call and text history logging is part of an opt-in feature for people using Messenger or Facebook Lite on Android,” the company said in a “fact check” today. “Contact importers are fairly common among social apps and services as a way to more easily find the people you want to connect with. This was first introduced in Messenger in 2015, and later offered as an option in Facebook Lite, a lightweight version of Facebook for Android.”
The feature in question is used to quickly populate Facebook Messenger or Facebook Lite on Android devices, based on a user’s contacts. When an Android user signs up for Messenger or Facebook Lite, or logs into Messenger on their device, they’re presented with the option to upload contacts, call, and text history. “This lets friends find each other on Facebook,” the company suggests.
Certainly, the option is given to skip that step. In Messenger, as well as enabling it, there are options to “learn more” about the tool, or “not now”; choosing the latter skips to the next step in the configuration process. On Facebook Lite, it can be turned on or skipped.
“If, at any point, you no longer wish to continuously upload this information, you can easily turn this feature off in your settings,” Facebook points out today. “You can also to turn off continuous call and text history logging while keeping contact uploading enabled.”
Facebook does not, however, give explicit reasons as to why it collects the text and call history data. While it is true that, as the company points out, many messaging apps and social networks use uploaded contacts to speed the process of populating a new friends list, using call and messaging logs is arguably far less common. It also does not make clear during the setup process that contacts upload can be used but without also enabling call and text logging as well, and doing so requires sifting through the settings after the fact.
Certainly, from an End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) standpoint – the contract which Android phone owners agree to when they use the app – Facebook seems to be in the clear. After all, the nature of the contacts uploading system have been detailed there, should anybody care to read through it. From a user-friendliness point of view, however, it’s hard to imagine that even a fraction of Facebook users ever went to the effort of reading through the EULA, and it’s questionable whether the information the company offered during its setup process was comprehensive enough to make clear to users what, exactly, they were agreeing to.
Facebook insists that the information it stores does not include the contents of calls or messaging, and it promises that the data wasn’t sold to third party firms. It’s also possible to see what contact data you’ve uploaded, and delete them through Facebook’s site. If, however, you haven’t also turned off the continuous uploading setting in the Messenger app or Facebook Lite on your phone, of course, then it will repopulate those contacts. Update: Facebook has told us that deleting those contacts also deletes the call and messaging logs, even though they’re not explicitly referred to on the page.
Arguably, though Facebook may well be in the clear legally, the Cambridge Analytica saga has toppled over beyond just the laws around data collection. For all that the EULA details what users can expect in terms of their personal data being uploaded, stored, and shared, lawmakers and privacy advocates have now begun to question whether even that is sufficient given the potential for misuse that data, in aggregate, presents. In Europe, such concerns prompted the passing of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which will be enforced in May 2018 and that enacts legal requirements for privacy, breach notifications, and more.
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I thought most people knew their personal data was sold for profit, not only FB, Google, apple, amazon etc all the big tech companies are doing it. I was wrong!
George Carlin on stupidity:
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
George Carlin on stupidity:
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
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