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So, like every other one of the world’s 1.28 billion monthly active Facebook users, you blindly agreed to Facebook’s Terms and Conditions without reading the fine print.
You entrusted your photo albums, private messages and relationships to a website without reading its policies. And you do the same with every other site ... sound about right?
In your defense, Carnegie Mellon researchers determined that it would take the average American 76 work days to read all the privacy policies they agreed to each year. So you’re not avoiding the reading out of laziness; it’s literally an act of job preservation.
Nothing you do on Facebook is private. Repeat: Nothing you do on Facebook is private.
When Facebook is installed, your browser history, your cell phone texts, your cell calls, your text messages are all reviewed by Facebook to provide YOU with an optimal experience (and Facebook with a ton of data to sell about you).
Using Facebook and valuing privacy are contradictions.
When Facebook is installed, your browser history, your cell phone texts, your cell calls, your text messages are all reviewed by Facebook to provide YOU with an optimal experience (and Facebook with a ton of data to sell about you).
Using Facebook and valuing privacy are contradictions.
Um, no .... In Android, the Facebook app doesn't have access to your browser history, call history, or text messages. The only permissions it has are Camera, Contacts, Location, Microphone, and Storage (you can actually check the permissions on every app you install).
If you use it in a browser, it has none of that information.
The Messenger App from Facebook does request quite a bit more, as it wants to be your SMS / Messaging app, but you have control over which features / permissions you allow on that, so you can restrict it all down, and it still doesn't have access to your browser history.
Yeah, Facebook IS DANGEROUS... I was watching a Youtube video on news, and when German Locals were complaining about refuges on their Facebook, they got RAIDED BY THEIR GOVERNMENT.
THAT'S WHY I DON'T TOUCH MY FACEBOOK.
EDIT: Ok, it was interesting seeing the Facebook of my cousins and some people I know. Maybe HARMLESS INTERESTING STUFF SHOULD BE OK ON TRACEBOOK, BUT BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PUT ON THERE!
Um, no .... In Android, the Facebook app doesn't have access to your browser history, call history, or text messages. The only permissions it has are Camera, Contacts, Location, Microphone, and Storage (you can actually check the permissions on every app you install).
If you use it in a browser, it has none of that information.
The Messenger App from Facebook does request quite a bit more, as it wants to be your SMS / Messaging app, but you have control over which features / permissions you allow on that, so you can restrict it all down, and it still doesn't have access to your browser history.
Sorry, nope. Facebook spies on all. See the term Facebook urchin for more information.
Update, 5/1 12:12 p.m.: Facebook has issued a statement disputing The Australian's report. "The premise of the article is misleading," the company wrote in its authorless statement. "Facebook does not offer tools to target people based on their emotional state. The analysis done by an Australian researcher was intended to help marketers understand how people express themselves on Facebook. It was never used to target ads and was based on data that was anonymous and aggregated."
Someone somewhere eff'ed up. OK with it? No. Angry and more paranoid? No.
As I've said repeatedly, I don't share anything on Facebook that I wouldn't share with someone sitting in a crowded restaurant.
OMG JET... Are you serious? Zuckerberg... is a CIA agent? That might be the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen on the internet. Just because someone says it on the internet....doesn't make it true.
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