We as a whole love free products and hello, in the event that we need to surrender some data about ourselves in exchange for those products, that is only the cost of free, correct?
Be that as it may, at that point, once our data was traded off in the latest Facebook information spills, we were all ready to fight. “How might you do this to us? How might you give our data a chance to be traded off like this interestingly? We believed you!”
Try not to mind the way that we couldn’t be tried to peruse the Privacy Policy or really ensure our own data by declining to offer it to them. Would it significantly matter if did read it?
So we work Mark Zuckerberg and his chilly dead eyes before a Senate board where the Senators that he paid off make some simple inquiries and afterward acknowledge an “I’ll investigate it” as a substantial answer from the brilliant goose.
Perhaps we should parade him through Main Street at the same time shouting “disgrace?” What we, in our limitless grandiosity neglect to see is the full picture — the data that we have surrendered so effortlessly has been unlawfully gotten and bargained by such a significant number of organizations that you should never again be stunned when you get that “you simply won a vessel from that overview from 3 years prior” call.
So allows all yell “disgrace!” together and contrast Facebook with Google. Your moronic virtual homestead with it’s virtual carrots can pause, it’s a great opportunity to wake up.
Facebook and the price you paid to stalk your ex-boyfriend/girlfriend
Ah young love and data leaks! Let’s take a look at some of those pesky facts that will no doubt keep you up tonight:
- The number of people whose information was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica by Facebook: 87 million.
- According to Facebook, “malicious actors” took advantage of Facebook’s search tools to discover the identities and collect information of most of its two billion users worldwide over the course of several years. These mysterious “malicious actors” collected information such as names, phone numbers and email addresses, leading to a virtual gold mine of information that could be used to steal identities and to do other “malicious” stuff.
- FTC has said that Facebook misrepresented its privacy protections and required Facebook to maintain a comprehensive Privacy Policy (so comprehensive in fact that now we need five cups of coffee just to read through all of that jargon). Thanks to the FTC, Facebook must also ask for permission before sharing user data in new ways.
- In 2016, Facebook was fined $1.44 million by Spain for collection of data on people’s ideologies and religious beliefs, sex, and personal tastes without clearly telling the users what it will do with that information. Facebook was also charged for violating laws by not deleting the information that was no longer useful for the reasons for which it was collected.
- In 2016, Facebook used your location data to suggest friends without asking you for permission to do so (naughty, naughty).
- Facebook also carried out an experiment that removed either positive or negative posts of 689,003 users to see how that affected their mood. You guessed it, without telling them. Screw Prozac, take your daily dose of Facebook today.
- Finally, Facebook was also sued for allegedly scanning private messages for advertising and user targeting data. So that message begging her to take you back? Yeah that was probably seen by a bunch of nerds. Shame!
Google and the price you paid to look up what that weird growth on your back is
Ah weird growths and privacy infringements. You know what’s coming next:
After being sued by 38 states, Google admitted that its cars were not just taking pictures, they were collecting data from inside homes and structures, including passwords, emails, and other personal information. C’mon Susan, pose for the camera and say “shame!”
In August 2012, Google was sued by the FTC for by-passing security measures in Apple devices and using secret code to bypass Safari’s anti-tracking measures.
It’s been discovered that Google Home Mini records your home at all times even if you don’t say “OK Google.” This software flaw has been subsequently fixed by Google. Or so they say.
Complaint has recently been lodged that YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, has been collecting information from children under the age of 13 without obtaining prior parental consent, as required by law.
In 2014, Google was sued over commingling of user data across different platforms and disclosing that data to advertisers without permission.
What have you learned? Will you pause for a moment and think before you hand over your information to these and different titans of security encroachment?
Indeed, you need to return to your virtual ranches and pseudo-brain research tests yet please go along with in going to bat for our entitlement to security or if nothing else to educated assent. Or on the other hand would it be advisable for me to yell “disgrace” at you as well?
