12160 Social Network2024-03-29T07:52:56Ztruthhttps://12160.info/profile/adap2khttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1798373698?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://12160.info/forum/topic/listForContributor?groupUrl=fuk-facebook&user=15qf1tbjmxkv7&feed=yes&xn_auth=noDid you #DeleteFacebook? Shady players can still exploit your datatag:12160.info,2019-01-02:2649739:Topic:18650032019-01-02T16:49:35.395Ztruthhttps://12160.info/profile/adap2k
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<h1 class="u-m-0_25">Did you #DeleteFacebook? Shady players can still exploit your data</h1>
<div class="post-byline u-m-1_5"><a class="lazy post-authorPhoto lazyLoaded" href="https://thenextweb.com/author/ben-jacobson/" title="Ben Jacobson"></a><p>by BEN JACOBSON<span> …</span></p>
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<h1 class="u-m-0_25">Did you #DeleteFacebook? Shady players can still exploit your data</h1>
<div class="post-byline u-m-1_5"><a class="lazy post-authorPhoto lazyLoaded" href="https://thenextweb.com/author/ben-jacobson/" title="Ben Jacobson"></a><p>by BEN JACOBSON<span> </span></p>
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<div class="post-featuredImage u-m-1_5"><p>Did you<span> </span><a href="https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2018/04/05/is-scrubbing-your-facebook-data-really-going-to-solve-anything/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#DeleteFacebook in 2018</a>? Caring about our online privacy might be popular right now, but on a wider level, it’s not as easy as we think to escape the hole we’ve dug ourselves into.</p>
<p>Don’t believe that this is more of a trend than a turning point? Just look at<span> </span><a href="https://www.recode.net/2018/9/5/17824116/delete-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-social-media-break-time-well-spent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the difference between hype and action</a>. Despite<span> </span><a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/05/americans-are-changing-their-relationship-with-facebook/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">26 percent of Pew poll respondents</a>saying they’ve deleted the Facebook app, the company’s user stats have stayed essentially the same.</p>
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<p>And even if we were deleting our Facebook accounts en masse, would it be anything more than a symbolic gesture in terms of our own online privacy?</p>
<p>Sadly, the answer looks bleak. Many of us have been handing over our personal data for years without paying much attention. Our Facebook accounts are just one scene in story the of our online privacy nightmare.</p>
<p>And while we’ve all been distracted by the story playing out on the main stage, there have been several other plot lines happening alongside it.</p>
<h2>Facebook’s not in a unique situation</h2>
<p>Consumers and the industry alike spent the year calling out Facebook for the amount of data the platform has amassed on its users, and what the company does with it. But Facebook’s not in a unique situation.</p>
<p>Okay, so perhaps no other social media networks are as closely associated with<span> </span><a href="https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2018/09/13/mark-zuckerberg-midterm-election-security/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">election tampering</a>.</p>
<p>And only a few other tech companies were<span> </span><a href="https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2018/12/28/2018-the-year-congress-and-social-media-collided/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called before Congress</a><span> </span>this year.</p>
<p>But that’s not because they’re the only companies with risky data and security practices. They’re simply a few of the largest, and therefore great candidates to make examples out of. Facebook may be especially irresponsible with how it handles our data, but the way non-tech media portrays users as clueless pawns being conned out of personal info is far from the truth.</p>
<p>Even if you do decide to go cold turkey on your daily injection of dopamine from Facebook’s flagship product,<span> </span><a href="https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/can-you-deletefacebook-if-you-dont-also-delete-instagram-and-whatsapp.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">what about Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp</a>? Are there even viable alternatives for those services, which are owned and operated by Zuck and co?</p>
<p>Sure, there haven’t been as many high-profile hacks and breaches of these products as those suffered by Facebook itself, but there’s<span> </span><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-17/instagram-was-bigger-russian-election-tool-than-facebook-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plenty of evidence</a><span> </span>suggesting that evil trolls are even more active on Instagram.</p>
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<p>But hacks, breaches, misinformation and toying with our emotions aside, it’s our own desensitization towards sharing that really needs to change.</p>
<p>There’s a simple fact that we often overlook when talking about Facebook data scandals. We hand that data over willingly. Very willingly.</p>
<p>Cambridge Analytica<a href="https://index.co/company/CamAnalytica?utm_source=thenextweb.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hover-CamAnalytica" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="idc-hasIcon"></a><span> </span>and other “evil actors” were hardly stealing users’ info covertly. The bad behavior started after they obtained it. Facebook users (and users of so many free services) have long been eagerly pressing “grant permission” and similar buttons without reading the fine print. This has given companies like Cambridge Analytica access to whatever they needed.</p>
<p>They were exploiting rules and behaviors that never made sense in the first place, but that we never stopped to question or think about.</p>
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<p>Instead, we all rushed to share our latest personality quiz results and didn’t pay attention to what permissions we were granting. We invited our friends to play games for more virtual coins without considering everything we were inviting them into.</p>
<p>And we posted about our plans, feelings and experiences. A lot.</p>
<p>Our own willful ignorance extends well beyond Facebook, and multiple companies are taking advantage of to this day. In ways that mean we’re all probably still at risk – regardless of whether you deleted Facebook.</p>
<h2>Other everyday sites and services are after you</h2>
<p>Just like Facebook has third parties and vendors exploiting it and its users, so do so many other sites and apps you use every day.</p>
<p>Facebook is just a favorite to point fingers at, possibly thanks to the “If you aren’t paying for it, you are the product” concept, which we can all have incensed #mindblown reactions to. But this concept is hardly specific to Facebook or even social media. It’s<span> </span><a href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/07/16/product/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">actually an iteration</a><span> </span>of concepts explored in a 1973 art film called<span> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvZYwaQlJsg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Television Delivers People</a><span> </span>about the dangers of broadcast media.</p>
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<p>Think you’re exempt because you’re a cord cutter and you pay your way with a Netflix<a href="https://index.co/company/netflix?utm_source=thenextweb.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hover-netflix" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="idc-hasIcon"></a><span> </span>subscription? Nope – you’re still a pair of<span> </span><a href="https://bgr.com/2018/08/17/netflix-testing-ads-experiment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">eyeballs that can be monetized</a>.</p>
<p>Netflix might not (yet) be trying to earn more from you than they can with a monthly subscription fee, but what about services where the end goal is consumerism itself? Even of Amazon<a href="https://index.co/company/amazon?utm_source=thenextweb.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hover-amazon" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="idc-hasIcon"></a><span> </span>exists – in your mind, at least – as a platform for convenient shopping, it’s also a major ad platform.</p>
<p>Just remember that as of 2017,<span> </span><a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/259782/third-party-seller-share-of-amazon-platform/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">more than half</a><span> </span>of the goods sold on the marketplace were from third-party sellers.</p>
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<p>And unfortunately, we can’t trust those third parties as quickly as most shoppers do. This year alone saw<span> </span><a href="https://www.feedbackexpress.com/amazon-1029528-new-sellers-year-plus-stats/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">over a million new sellers</a><span> </span>enter the Amazon marketplace, and not all of those sellers are running their businesses with the due diligence expected of an international brand. And they’re unknowingly giving too much data to other services, just like in the case of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.</p>
<p>The majority of China-based Amazon sellers use local third-party tools for extra business services like payment processors and fulfillment companies.</p>
<p>Some of these third parties take advantage of merchants’ lack of knowledge and request their secret key to access the Marketplace Web Services API instead of the developer ID path that’s supposed to be used.</p>
<p>Sellers, in the meantime, willingly hand over access to the data not knowing the wiser, just like users on Facebook. And similar to the Facebook security loopholes, the Amazon API problem impacts more than just the individual who forgot to read the fine print. Once a seller hands over their secret key, the processor gains access to loads of personal data, including shopping history.</p>
<p>With these processors building major monetize-able assets in the form of private transaction data, they don’t need to charge merchants reasonable transaction fees, which means they can provide a “cheaper” service than mainstream fintech from the West, thereby attracting sellers unaware. But Amazon itself<span> </span><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/thought-leadership/are-amazon-merchant-data-risks-a-global-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doesn’t seem interested</a>in doing anything about it.</p>
<h2>It’s time to take action</h2>
<p>Even if you don’t shop at Amazon and have indeed deleted your Facebook account, your data’s not safe.</p>
<p>For example, did you get a 23andme or similar genealogy test for the holidays?<span> </span><a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/myheritage-dna-testing-service-had-data-on-92m-users-compromised/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The security breach of a DNA testing service in June</a><span> </span>pointed out the danger of sending DNA off to tech companies. With data privacy regulation so inadequate in most countries and health privacy laws that haven’t caught up with technology, that’s instilling a lot of trust in these companies.</p>
<p>And unearned trust is what many of these examples to come down to. Because we rarely stop and think of the implication of clicking “I accept the Terms of Service” before doing so.</p>
<p>It’s time to start.</p>
<p>We’ve reached a point where the evidence of misconduct is all around us. It’s on the social networks and shopping sites we visit, and too many of the other services we use as well. It’s too prevalent to pretend to ignore.</p>
<p>As an industry, we need to deal with the bad actors.</p>
<p>Center for Humane Technology Co-founder<span> Aza Raskin</span><span> </span>recently discussed some of these issues in his “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBwtBiH0tRs&feature=youtu.be&t=1231" target="_self">How to Create Human Protective Technology</a>” presentation at the Slush<a href="https://index.co/company/SlushHQ?utm_source=thenextweb.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hover-SlushHQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="idc-hasIcon"></a><span> </span>conference in Helsinki.</p>
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<p>If there once was a time when the tech industry and end users could ignore the pitfalls of under-vigilant data privacy, that time is now history. The trust we once had can probably never be re-established.</p>
<p>It’s not enough to address individual exploiters as they pop up, as it’s happening too frequently. We’ll never be able to chase wrongdoers down faster than new ones will arrive. We need to address the systems allowing them to exploit us, our customers, and our data.</p>
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</div> FACEBOOK FIRED OCULUS FOUNDER FOR HIS POLITICAL BELIEFS AND PRO-TRUMP DONATIONStag:12160.info,2018-11-12:2649739:Topic:18451572018-11-12T19:18:47.867Ztruthhttps://12160.info/profile/adap2k
<div id="newsheader"><h2>SOURCE:<span> </span><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-11/facebook-fired-oculus-founder-his-political-beliefs-and-pro-trump-donations">ZEROHEDGE</a></h2>
<div class="div_clear">Every so often, Silicon Valley's virtue-signaling, shadowbanning, anti-conservative media titans appear in Congress or devise a quick PR campaign to show to the world just how truly impartial they are with zero liberal bias. And every single time it backfires as their true…</div>
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<div id="newsheader"><h2>SOURCE:<span> </span><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-11/facebook-fired-oculus-founder-his-political-beliefs-and-pro-trump-donations">ZEROHEDGE</a></h2>
<div class="div_clear">Every so often, Silicon Valley's virtue-signaling, shadowbanning, anti-conservative media titans appear in Congress or devise a quick PR campaign to show to the world just how truly impartial they are with zero liberal bias. And every single time it backfires as their true ideological face quickly emerges from behind a fake, hypocritical mask.</div>
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<div id="newsdetail"><div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Take the case of former Facebook executive, Oculus co-founder and virtual-reality wunderkind Palmer Luckey, who was a rising star of Silicon Valley when, at the height of the 2016 presidential contest, he donated a modest $10,000 to an anti-Hillary Clinton group. His donation sparked a backlash from his colleagues, which then led to him being put on leave, and six months later he was fired. </p>
<p>What is odd about Luckey's termination, is that when testifying before Congress about data privacy earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg denied, or rather lied that the departure had anything to do with politics. In fact, neither Facebook nor Mr. Luckey ever said why he left the social-media giant.</p>
<p>Until now: <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-did-facebook-fire-a-top-executive-hint-it-had-something-to-do-with-trump-1541965245?mod=hp_lead_pos5">according to a report from the WSJ</a>, Luckey told people the reason for his termination from that bastion of apolitical impartiality Facebook, was his support for Donald Trump and the furor that his political beliefs sparked within his employer, and Silicon Valley, some of those people say.</p>
<p>It's not just his opinion either: internal Facebook emails suggest the matter was discussed at the highest levels of the company. In the fall of 2016, as unhappiness over the paltry donation simmered, executives at Facebook - which according to Open Secrets has spent over $60 million on lobbying in the past decade - including Zuckerberg <strong>pressured Mr. Luckey to publicly voice support for libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, despite Mr. Luckey’s yearslong support of Trump</strong>.</p>
<p>At that point Luckey, 26, allegedly hired an employment lawyer who argued to Facebook that it had <strong>violated California law in pressuring the executive to voice support for Johnson and for punishing an employee for political activity</strong>.</p>
<p>Not long after, Luckey and his lawyer negotiated a payout of at least $100 million, representing an acceleration of stock awards and bonuses he would have received through July 2019, plus cash, according to the people familiar with the matter. The stock awards and bonuses were a result of selling his virtual-reality company, Oculus VR, to Facebook in 2014 for more than $2 billion, a deal that netted him a total of about $600 million.</p>
<p>In other words, it was Trump's "fault" that a $10,000 donation resulted in a $100,000,000 payout just a few months later.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in keeping with its fake facade of objectivity and impartiality, a Facebook spokeswoman told the WSJ that "we can say unequivocally that Palmer’s departure was not due to his political views. We’re grateful for Palmer’s contributions to Oculus, and we’re glad he continues to actively support the VR industry."</p>
<p>Of course, if he were to say anything else, it would be in violation of the Luckey's separation agreement. Same goes for the Oculus founder, who described the episode as being in the past. "I believe the team that remains at Oculus is still the best in the VR industry, and I am rooting for them to succeed."</p>
<p>It's doubtful that the inverse is also true: Luckey started Oculus in 2012, while still a teenager, with a $2.4 million crowdfunding campaign. He dropped out of the journalism program at California State University, Long Beach, to work on the company, along with co-founder Brendan Iribe. When they sold to Facebook, Luckey became the face of the virtual-reality industry, appearing on a Time magazine cover saying the technology was “about to change the world.”</p>
<p>But the real reason why the young entrepreneur - a Long Beach native who was home-schooled by his mother - never fit in was because he was often out of step with the largely liberal culture of Facebook. <strong>A fan of big cars and military gear, he drove a giant tan Humvee with machine-gun mounts and orange toy guns. </strong>According to WSJ sources, he once was forced to move it from the Facebook parking lot after someone called the police in to investigate.</p>
<p>However, what likely turned his co-workers against him, is that Luckey has been a longtime supporter of Donald Trump and wrote a letter to the then-reality-television star in 2011 urging him to run for president. Mr. Luckey has told friends that reading Mr. Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal” at age 13 sparked his entrepreneurial imagination.</p>
<p>And while even that may have been forgiven; the real dealbreaker was when Luckey slammed the patron saint of virtue signalers everywhere: Luckey’s fallout with Facebook began in September 2016, when the Daily Beast revealed his $10,000 donation to NimbleAmerica, a pro-Trump group that paid for advertising mocking Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 election. At least one billboard paid for by the group featured a picture of Mrs. Clinton and the phrase “Too Big to Jail.”</p>
<p>In one post on a Reddit chain dedicated to supporting Mr. Trump, the author, called “NimbleRichMan,” said he was donating to the group so it could spread unflattering memes about Mrs. Clinton. In the same post, the author professed to support Mr. Trump’s campaign, saying:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>“Hillary Clinton is corrupt, a warmonger, a freedom-stripper. Not the good kind you see dancing in bikinis on Independence day, the bad kind that strips freedom from citizens and grants it to donors.”</strong></p>
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<p>The Daily Beast wrote that Mr. Luckey had said he used the pseudonym NimbleRichMan, and it was all downhill from there.</p>
<p>Luckey’s donation and the perception that he might be associated with a group that at times traded in misogynistic and white-supremacist messages, as some news stories reported, ignited a firestorm. Facebook employees expressed anger about Luckey on internal message boards and at a weekly town hall meeting in late September 2016, questioning why he was still employed, according to people familiar with the complaints. Because Silicon Valley's liberals are all about tolerance, as long as the opinion they have to tolerate is identical to their own.</p>
<p>Things then turned bizarre quickly.</p>
<blockquote><p>In an apology posted on Facebook that month, Mr. Luckey denied writing the NimbleRichMan posts and said he “contributed $10,000 to NimbleAmerica because I thought the organization had fresh ideas on how to communicate with young voters through the use of several billboards.”</p>
<p>The post said Mr. Luckey is a libertarian and planned to vote for Mr. Johnson in the election.</p>
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<p>Maybe not: “I need to tell you that Mark [Zuckerberg] himself drafted this and details are critical,” Facebook Deputy General Counsel Paul Grewal wrote to a lawyer for Mr. Luckey in a September 2016 email, attaching an early draft of the statement, according to the emails reviewed by the Journal. The draft said Mr. Luckey wouldn’t be supporting Mr. Trump in the election.</p>
<blockquote><p>Soon after the apology was posted, a writer at the Daily Beast posted on Twitter emails he had received from Mr. Luckey in which he said he made at least one post attributed to NimbleRichMan—a contradiction of his public statement. Mr. Luckey has since told people he wasn’t the author, but took responsibility because the post reflected his views.</p>
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<p>Facebook executives were furious about the conflicting statements, with some believing that Luckey had lied to them, according to people familiar with the matter.</p>
<p>At this point the company had every intention of firing Luckey, but it lacked a valid reason: The company launched a human-resources investigation, which in 2016 found that <strong>Luckey hadn’t violated internal policies, say people familiar with the investigation. </strong>His performance reviews were consistently positive, including his last in June 2016.</p>
<p>That was not enough to allow the young conservative to keep his job however, and amid the uproar, Facebook placed Luckey on paid leave. Then, just to rub salt in his coworker's liberal wounds, after Trump won the election in November, <strong>Luckey donated $100,000 to his inaugural committee. </strong>By December 2016, he had returned to work to prepare for and testify at a trial, although he was only on campus for a couple of days.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Facebook finally got the break it needed in letting Luckey go: a videogame publisher, ZeniMax Media Inc., had sued Facebook shortly after it purchased Oculus, contending that a ZeniMax employee took proprietary code when he joined Oculus. After a trial, a judge ordered Facebook to pay $250 million, plus interest. Facebook has appealed.</p>
<blockquote><p>After the verdict, Mr. Luckey got a call from a Facebook executive asking him to resign, according to people familiar with the call. He declined, seeking instead to get reinstated. Facebook said no.</p>
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<p>Ultimately, Mr. Luckey was fired. His last day was March 30, 2017.</p>
<p>After his departure, Luckey - financially set for life - became even more political. One month after he left Facebook, he hosted a fundraiser for Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. He has since founded Anduril, an Orange County-based tech company focused on using artificial intelligence to protect troops, performing search-and-rescue missions and bringing “Silicon Valley thinking and funding to defense."</p>
<p>Recently, Mr. Luckey came as close as he has ever come to publicly divulging the circumstances of his Facebook departure. At Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit in Los Angeles last month, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/10/oculus-co-founder-luckey-says-it-wasnt-my-choice-to-leave-facebook.html">he told CNBC </a>that"“it wasn’t my choice to leave."</p>
<p>Luckey’s termination ouster from Facebook was a harbinger of battles that have broken out over the past year over the overwhelmingly liberal culture of Silicon Valley, which has given the tech industry public-relations headaches for filtering out and banning conservatives, and brought unwanted attention from Washington.</p>
<p>Executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google have had to answer questions from lawmakers about potential bias in their treatment of conservative viewpoints. Tech executives concede that Silicon Valley is predominantly liberal—Zuckerberg said in Senate testimony that it is “an extremely left-leaning place”—yet they have steadfastly maintained that politics doesn't, which we now know once again is clearly a lie; then again one look at the charts below would have led to the same conclusion.</p>
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<div class="div_clear">Facebook has lately announced a series of major steps it would take to combat fake news and the global spread of misinformation that it says could influence elections, but the more we learn about just who it is Facebook is partnering with in this endeavor, the clearer it becomes that these initiatives are not at all designed to foster independent thought and discourse, but to ultimately ensure that public online discourse doesn't stray too far from official state narratives.</div>
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<div id="newsdetail"><p>Mark Weisbrot, a co-director at the Center for Economic and Policy Research,<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/MarkWeisbrot/status/1043238450944790529">recently</a><span> </span><strong>slammed Facebook’s decision to work with US government-funded organizations as "Orwellian"<span> </span><em>—<span> </span></em>especially given the fact these organizations themselves "specialize in overseas propaganda."</strong></p>
<p>Thus while claiming to fight Russian, Iranian, and other propaganda these very groups will strictly enforce an official establishment Washington and NATO view of world events.</p>
<p>Here are 3 extremely worrisome Facebook initiatives to which the public should pay close attention, and which suggest the social media giant<span> </span><strong><em>is increasingly becoming a censorship arm of the US government and its allies...</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Facebook's Partnership with US state-funded think tanks</strong></p>
<p>Last Wednesday Facebook announced it would work with two US government-funded think tanks in order bolster the social media giant’s “election integrity efforts” around the globe.</p>
<p>The new partnership with the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI)<span> </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-elections/facebook-expands-fake-election-news-fight-but-falsehoods-still-rampant-idUSKCN1LZ2XY">has been described by<span> </span></a><em><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-elections/facebook-expands-fake-election-news-fight-but-falsehoods-still-rampant-idUSKCN1LZ2XY">Reuters</a><span> </span></em>as an initiative to "slow the global spread of misinformation that could influence elections, acknowledging that fake news sites were still read by millions".</p>
<p>But<span> </span><strong>both the IRI and NDI are funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)</strong>, which has since its late Cold War era founding defined itself as a "soft power" wing of the US government abroad focused on "democracy promotion".</p>
<p>Journalist Max Blumenthal recently<span> </span><a href="https://grayzoneproject.com/2018/08/20/inside-americas-meddling-machine-the-us-funded-group-that-interferes-in-elections-around-the-globe/">described the NDI as</a><span> </span>"<strong>a taxpayer funded organization that has interfered in elections, mobilized coups, and orchestrated public relations campaigns against nations that resist Washington's agenda."</strong></p>
<p><em>Max Blumenthal explored the<span> </span></em><em>National Endowment for Democracy's machinations in recent history and today in a mini-documentary entitled, "Inside America's Meddling Machine"</em></p>
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<p><strong>Facebook's close ties to NATO and US allies</strong></p>
<p>Another think tank, The Atlantic Council,<span> </span><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-07/four-person-nato-funded-team-advises-facebook-flagging-propaganda">has since last May been directly advising</a><span> </span>Facebook on identifying and removing "foreign interference" on the popular platform through its Digital Forensic Research Lab, or "DFR Lab".<span> </span><strong>The Atlantic Council is funded by NATO and European governments and Gulf monarchies</strong>.</p>
<p>Previously Mark Zuckerberg indicated the need for an outside source that could identify "foreign influence" bent on malicious intent through specialized geopolitical expertise.</p>
<p>Supposedly the whole partnership is aimed at bringing more objectivity and neutrality to the process of rooting out fake accounts that pose the threat of being operated by nefarious foreign states. Yet as a<span> </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber/u-s-think-tanks-tiny-lab-helps-facebook-battle-fake-social-media-idUSKBN1KS22N"><em>Reuters<span> </span></em>report confirmed</a>,<span> </span><strong>Facebook is itself a<span> </span><em>top donor to the Atlantic Council</em></strong>, alongside Western governments, Gulf autocratic regimes, NATO, various branches of the US military, and a number of major defense contractors and corporations.</p>
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<p>The Atlantic Council has frequently called for things like<span> </span><a href="http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/component/tags/tag/rebuilding-syria">increased military engagement<span> </span></a>in Syria, militarily<span> </span><a href="http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/publications/reports/meeting-the-russian-conventional-challenge">confronting the "Russian threat" in Eastern Europe</a>, and now is advocating for Ukraine and Georgia to be allowed entry into NATO while calling for general territorial expansion of the Western military alliance.</p>
<p>Further<span> </span><strong>it has<span> </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170517074736/https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/05/erdogan-washington-visit-think-tanks.html">advocated on behalf</a><span> </span>of one of its previous funders, Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan</strong><span> </span>and gave a “Distinguished International Leadership” award to George W. Bush, to name but a few actions of the think tank that has been given authorization to flag citizens' Facebook pages for possible foreign influence and propaganda.</p>
<p>Quite disturbingly, this is Mark Zuckerberg's "neutral" outside "geopolitical expertise" he's been seeking.</p>
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<p><strong>Facebook has set up a "War Room" ahead of the November midterm elections</strong></p>
<p>Facebook announced last Wednesday that it plans to set up a "war room" at its Silicon Valley campus to prevent potential foreign election meddling during the midterms.</p>
<p><strong>"We are setting up a war room in Menlo Park for the Brazil and US elections,"</strong><span> </span>Facebook elections and civic engagement director Samidh Chakrabarti said, according to<span> </span><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/facebook-building-war-room-battle-election-meddling-214828656.html">the AFP.</a><span> </span>He added,<strong><span> </span><em>"It is going to serve as a command center so we can make real-time decisions as needed."</em></strong></p>
<p>A "command center" in a "war room" to make "real-time" decisions huh?... And<span> </span><strong>Facebook says<span> </span><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/facebook-building-war-room-battle-election-meddling-214828656.html">it will gain help</a><span> </span>from artificial intelligence software</strong><span> </span>to prevent fake posts by those pesky Russians to boot.</p>
<p>The "war room" will further include<span> </span><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-07/four-person-nato-funded-team-advises-facebook-flagging-propaganda">assistance from the aforementioned NATO-funded</a><span> </span>DFR Lab, which is to help in flagging posts which could have a malevolent foreign power behind them. All of this should translate into very real concern for the potential of political censorship of American citizens in the name of protecting against foreign election meddling.</p>
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<p class="Tweet-text e-entry-title" lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Wow, this is pretty Orwellian: Facebook chooses 2 US-government-funded organizations who specialize in overseas propaganda and sometimes regime change to fight "malicious propaganda" Reuters reports without irony or any awareness of who these groups are: <a href="https://t.co/t9wLZSmNFF" rel="nofollow noopener" dir="ltr" class="link customisable" target="_blank" title="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-elections/facebook-expands-fake-election-news-fight-but-falsehoods-still-rampant-idUSKCN1LZ2XY"><span class="u-hiddenVisually">https://www.</span>reuters.com/article/us-fac<span class="u-hiddenVisually">ebook-elections/facebook-expands-fake-election-news-fight-but-falsehoods-still-rampant-idUSKCN1LZ2XY </span>…</a></p>
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<p>Early this year<span> </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/us/politics/facebook-political-campaign-midterms.html"><em>The New York Times<span> </span></em>reported</a><span> </span>that in order to combat the "discord" allegedly sewn by Russians, most of which the<span> </span><em>Times<span> </span></em>story admitted happened after the election, Facebook<span> </span><strong>hired a fleet of people to review content, added to its security team, and hired counterterrorism experts and recruited workers with government security clearances</strong>.</p>
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<p><strong>What's the ultimate aim here?</strong></p>
<p>The Council on Foreign Relations' (CFR) Richard Stengel, a former TIME editor, told an audience at<span> </span><a href="https://www.cfr.org/event/political-disruptions-combating-disinformation-and-fake-news">a CFR event in late April</a><span> </span>called "Political Disruptions: Combating Disinformation and Fake News" that<span> </span><strong><em>governments “have to” direct “propaganda” toward their own populations</em>.</strong></p>
<p>Notably CFR members are also typically a who's who among the leadership of above-mentioned organizations like the NED, IRI, NDI, and the Atlantic Council.</p>
<p><strong><em>These are the types of people looking to "guide" Facebook on flagging disinformation</em>.</strong><span> </span><em>See what they have to say in their own words:</em></p>
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<div class="div_clear">Facebook has asked several large US banks to share detailed financial information about their customers, including checking account balances and card transactions, as part of a new push to offer new services to its users, according to the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-banks-give-us-your-data-well-give-you-our-users-1533564049" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Wall Street Journal</em></a>. </div>
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<p>Facebook's new feature would show people their checking account balances, as well as offer fraud alerts, according to the <em>WSJ</em>'s sources, while <strong>the banks are apparently waffling over data privacy concerns</strong>.</p>
<p>The negotiations come as the social media giant has fallen under several investigations over data harvesting, including its ties to political analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, which was able to gain access to the data of as many as 87 million Facebook users without their consent. </p>
<p>One large bank withdrew from talks due to privacy concerns, according to the <em>Journal,</em> however Facebook swears that they're simply trying to enhance the user experience and won't use any banking data for ad-targeting. </p>
<blockquote><p>Facebook has told banks that the additional customer information could be used to offer services that might entice users to spend more time on Messenger, a person familiar with the discussions said. The company is trying to deepen user engagement: Investors shaved more than $120 billion from its market value in one day last month after it said its growth is starting to slow.</p>
<p><strong>Facebook said it wouldn’t use the bank data for ad-targeting purposes</strong> or share it with third parties. -<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-banks-give-us-your-data-well-give-you-our-users-1533564049" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WSJ</a></p>
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<p>“<strong>We don’t use purchase data from banks or credit card companies for ads</strong>,” said spokeswoman Elisabeth Diana. “We also don’t have special relationships, partnerships, or contracts with banks or credit card companies to use their customers’ purchase data for ads.” </p>
<p>While banks have been under increasing pressure to build relationships with large online platforms and their billions of product-consuming users, they have struggled to gain traction in mobile payments while trying to reach more customers online. That said, they have been hesitant to hand over too much information to third-party platforms such as Facebook - preferring instead to keep customers on their own apps and websites. </p>
<blockquote><p>As part of the proposed deals, Facebook asked banks for information about where its users are shopping with their debit and credit cards outside of purchases they make using Facebook Messenger, the people said. Messenger has some 1.3 billion monthly active users, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said on the company’s second-quarter earnings call last month. -WSJ</p>
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<p>Both Google and Amazon have also asked banks to join their online platforms with data-sharing agreements that would provide basic banking services on applications such as Alexa and Google Assistant, according to people familiar with the conversations.</p>
<p>“Like many online companies, we routinely talk to financial institutions about how we can improve people’s commerce experiences, like enabling better customer service,” said Diana. <strong>“An essential part of these efforts is keeping people’s information safe and secure</strong>.”</p>
<p>Facebook has beefed up privacy measures since the data harvesting scandal broke - rolling out new features such as "clear history," allowing users to prevent the platform from collecting their browsing details off-Facebook. It's also making greater efforts to alert users to their privacy settings. </p>
<p>That said, bank executives are still concerned over the scope of information being sought by Facebook - and are willing to maintain their distance over privacy issues even if it means not being included on certain platforms that their customers use. </p>
<blockquote><p>JPMorgan isn’t “sharing our customers’ off-platform transaction data with these platforms, and have had to say no to some things as a result,” said spokeswoman Trish Wexler.</p>
<p><strong>Banks view mobile commerce as one of their biggest opportunities</strong>, but are still running behind technology firms like PayPal Holdings Inc. and Square Inc. Customers have moved slowly too; many Americans still prefer using their cards, along with cash and checks. -<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-banks-give-us-your-data-well-give-you-our-users-1533564049" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WSJ</a></p>
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<p>In order to crack into the world of online payments and compete with PayPal's Venmo, several large banks have connected their smartphone apps for quick money-transfers through the Zelle network. While usage has risen, many banks still aren't on the platform. Meanwhile, Facebook has been trying to turn their Messenger app into a hub for customer service and commerce - "in keeping with a broader trend among mobile messaging services," reports the <em>Journal</em>. </p>
<p>American Express already lets Facebook users contact their customer service department, while PayPal struck a deal with the social media giant to allow users to send money through Messenger. Furthermore, Mastercard cardholders can buy products from certain merchants via Messenger using the card company's Masterpass digital wallet - while the company says Facebook can't see card information. </p>
<p>The initial reaction is positive in Facebook shares - up over 2.5% - but in context of the earnings collapse, Zuck has a long way to go.</p>
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</div> FECEBOOK REPLACES USER-GENERATED "TRENDING NEWS" WITH "BREAKING NEWS" FROM 80 UNDISCLOSED PUBLICATIONStag:12160.info,2018-06-03:2649739:Topic:17843382018-06-03T16:25:36.688Ztruthhttps://12160.info/profile/adap2k
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<div id="newsdetail"><p>Facebook is replacing its user-generated "trending news" feature with a "breaking news" section - comprised of 80 publications which they will feed to users.</p>
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<p>In other words, <span style="font-size: 14pt;">Facebook will have complete control over narratives and topics which go against their internal corporate culture.</span></p>
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<p>Facebook's Trending News section has been the subject of intense scrutiny since the 2016 election <strong>after it was revealed that the editors in charge of the feature were repeatedly <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/05/12/leaked-documents-confirm-facebook-deciding-which-news-stories-users-see/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discriminating against </a>conservative articles, while promoting progressive content. </strong>Their clear bias resulted in the threat of an <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/05/10/senate-investigate-claims-facebook-censor-conservative-news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation </a>from the Senate commerce committee.</p>
<p>The new changes were explained in a Friday <a href="https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/06/removing-trending/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement </a>:</p>
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<li>Breaking News Label: A test we’re running with 80 publishers across North America, South America, Europe, India and Australia lets publishers put a <a href="https://www.recode.net/2017/11/28/16713100/facebook-breaking-news-media-label-news-feed" target="_blank" rel="noopener external">“breaking news” </a>indicator on their posts in News Feed. We’re also testing breaking news notifications.</li>
<li>Today In: We’re testing a dedicated section on Facebook called Today In that connects people to the latest breaking and important news from local publishers in their city, as well as updates from local officials and organizations.</li>
<li>News Video in Watch: We will soon have a dedicated section on Facebook Watch in the US where people can view live coverage, daily news briefings and weekly deep dives that are exclusive to Watch.</li>
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</div> FACEBOOK TRUTH POLICE: WHO'S REGULATING THE REGULATORS?tag:12160.info,2018-05-21:2649739:Topic:17802672018-05-21T05:42:19.528Ztruthhttps://12160.info/profile/adap2k
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<p>The New York Times claims Facebook police show Germany learned a history lesson.</p>
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<div class="markdown"><div><div><blockquote><p>Security is tight at this brick building on the western edge of Berlin. Inside, a sign warns: “Everybody without a badge is a potential spy!”</p>
<p>Spread over five floors, hundreds of men and women sit in rows of six scanning their computer screens. All have signed nondisclosure agreements. Four trauma specialists are at their disposal seven days a week.</p>
<p>They are the agents of Facebook. And they have the power to decide what is free speech and what is hate speech.</p>
<p>This is a deletion center, one of Facebook’s largest, with more than 1,200 content moderators.</p>
<p>Germany, home to a tough new online hate speech law, has become a laboratory for one of the most pressing issues for governments today: how and whether to regulate the world’s biggest social network.</p>
<p>In the country of the Holocaust, the commitment against hate speech is as fierce as the commitment to free speech. Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” is only available in an annotated version. Swastikas are illegal. Inciting hatred is punishable by up to five years in jail.</p>
<p>Companies that systematically fail to remove “obviously illegal” content within 24 hours face fines of up to 50 million euros.</p>
<p>Every day content moderators in Berlin, hired by a third-party firm and working exclusively on Facebook, pore over thousands of posts flagged by users as upsetting or potentially illegal and make a judgment: Ignore, delete or, in particularly tricky cases, “escalate” to a global team of Facebook lawyers with expertise in German regulation.</p>
<p>On Dec. 31, the day before the new law took effect, a far-right lawmaker reacted to an Arabic New Year’s tweet from the Cologne police, accusing them of appeasing “barbaric, Muslim, gang-raping groups of men.”</p>
<p>The request to block a screenshot of the lawmaker’s post wound up in the queue of Nils, a 35-year-old agent in the Berlin deletion center. His judgment was to let it stand. A colleague thought it should come down. Ultimately, the post was sent to lawyers in Dublin, London, Silicon Valley and Hamburg. By the afternoon it had been deleted, prompting a storm of criticism about the new legislation, known here as the “Facebook Law.”</p>
<p>For 24 hours, the post kept Facebook lawyers from Silicon Valley to Hamburg busy. The Dublin team decided that the post did not violate community standards but sent it on for legal assessment by outside lawyers hired by Facebook in Germany.</p>
<p>Within hours of news that the German police were opening a criminal investigation into Ms. von Storch over her comments, Facebook restricted access to the post. The user who reported the content was notified that it had been blocked for a violation of section 130 of the German criminal code, incitement to hatred. Ms. von Storch was also notified too.</p>
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<div class="markdown"><div><div><p>The New York Times claims "The commitment against hate speech is as fierce as the commitment to free speech."</p>
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<div class="markdown"><div><div><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_von_Storch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beatrix von Storch </a>is a German politician who has served as Deputy Leader of the Alternative for Germany since July 2015 and Member of the Bundestag since September 2017.</p>
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<div class="markdown"><div><div><p>“<em>What the hell is wrong with this country? Why is an official police account tweeting in Arabic? Do you think that will appease the barbaric murdering Muslim group-raping gangs of men?</em>” asked von Storch.</p>
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</div> FACEBOOK ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH THINK TANK CONNECTED TO NATO, MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXtag:12160.info,2018-05-19:2649739:Topic:17794972018-05-19T15:48:29.034Ztruthhttps://12160.info/profile/adap2k
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<p><em>Facebook has announced a new partnership with the Atlantic Council, a think tank with close ties to the Military Industrial Complex and Defense Department.</em></p>
<p>On Thursday Facebook announced a new partnership with the Atlantic Council, a think tank which officially claims to provide a forum for international political, business, and intellectual leaders. The social media giant said the partnership is aimed at preventing Facebook from “being abused during elections.” <a href="https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/05/announcing-new-election-partnership-with-the-atlantic-council/amp/">The press release</a> promotes Facebook’s efforts to fight fake news by using artificial intelligence, as well as working with outside experts and governments.</p>
<blockquote><p>Today, we’re excited to launch a new partnership with the <a href="http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/">Atlantic Council</a>, which has a stellar reputation looking at innovative solutions to hard problems. Experts from their <a href="https://www.digitalsherlocks.org/">Digital Forensic Research Lab</a> will work closely with our security, policy and product teams to get Facebook real-time insights and updates on emerging threats and disinformation campaigns from around the world. This will help increase the number of “eyes and ears” we have working to spot potential abuse on our service — enabling us to more effectively identify gaps in our systems, preempt obstacles, and ensure that Facebook plays a positive role during elections all around the world.</p>
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<p>Facebook goes on to describe how the Atlantic Council’s Digital Research Unit Monitoring Missions will be monitoring traffic during elections and other “highly sensitive moments.” Facebook claims this will help the company monitor for misinformation and foreign interference. Of course, there is also the obligatory reference to protecting democracy and “free and fair elections across the world.”</p>
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<h3>SO WHO IS THE ATLANTIC COUNCIL AND WHAT IS THE DIGITAL FORENSIC RESEARCH LAB?</h3>
<p>The Atlantic Council of the United States was established in 1961 to bolster support for international relations. Although not officially connected to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Atlantic Council has spent decades promoting causes and issues which are beneficial to NATO member states. In addition, The Atlantic Council is a member of the Atlantic Treaty Organization, an umbrella organization which “acts as a network facilitator in the Euro-Atlantic and beyond.” The ATA works similarly to the Atlantic Council, bringing together political leaders, academics, military officials, journalists and diplomats to promote values that are favorable to the NATO member states. Officially, ATA is independent of NATO, but the line between the two is razor thin.</p>
<p>Essentially, the Atlantic Council is a think tank which can offer companies or nation states access to military officials, politicians, journalists, diplomats, etc. to help them develop a plan to implement their strategy or vision. These strategies often involve getting NATO governments or industry insiders to make decisions they might not have made without a visit from the Atlantic Council team. This allows individuals or nations to push forth their ideas under the cover of hiring what appears to be a public relations agency but is actually selling access to high-profile individuals with power to affect public policy. Indeed, everyone from George H.W. Bush to Bill Clinton to the family of international agent of disorder Zbigniew Brzezinski have spoken at or attended council events.</p>
<p>In 2016, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/24/us/politics/document-atlantic-council.html"><em>The New York Times</em> wrote</a> “The Atlantic Council, which has seen its annual revenue grow to $21 million from $2 million in the last decade, offers access to United States and foreign government officials in exchange for.....<a href="https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/65923/facebook-announces-partnership-with-think-tank-connected-to-nato-military-industrial.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rest of it</a></p>
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<p>Facebook sent a cardiologist to several major U.S. hospitals to pitch a scheme that would combine a patient's medical file with user data collected by the beleaguered social media giant, in order to "figure out which patients might need special care or treatment," reports <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/05/facebook-building-8-explored-data-sharing-agreement-with-hospitals.html?__source=yahoo%7Cfinance%7Cheadline%7Cstory%7C&par=yahoo&yptr=yahoo"><em>CNBC</em></a>. </p>
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<p>The program, which "never progressed passed the planning phase" according to Facebook, was put on pause after the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal raised concerns over the company's policies governing data collection and use. </p>
<blockquote><p>Facebook's pitch, according to two people who heard it and one who is familiar with the project, <strong>was to combine what a health system knows about its patients (such as: person has heart disease, is age 50, takes 2 medications and made 3 trips to the hospital this year) with <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/17/how-to-find-out-what-facebook-knows-about-me.html">what Facebook knows</a></strong> (such as: user is age 50, married with 3 kids, English isn't a primary language, actively engages with the community by sending a lot of messages). -<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/05/facebook-building-8-explored-data-sharing-agreement-with-hospitals.html?__source=yahoo%7Cfinance%7Cheadline%7Cstory%7C&par=yahoo&yptr=yahoo"><em>CNBC</em></a></p>
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<p>Recently as last month, however, Facebook was discussing the program with several health organizations - including Stanford Medical School and American College of Cardiology.</p>
<p>The company says that the shared data would have personally identifiable information obscured - such as a patient's name, and that they were thinking of using a technique known as "hashing" to match an individual's medical data to their social media information. </p>
<p>Facebook said on Wednesday that as many as 87 million users were affected by the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and that <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-05/facebook-admits-most-its-22-billion-users-exposed-data-scraping-maliocus-actors"><strong>"most" of their 2.2 billion users</strong></a> were exposed to potential data scraping by "malicious actors." </p>
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<p>The project to share medical-related data was led by Freddy Abnousi, an interventional cardiologist whose role is described on LinkedIn as "leading top-secret projects." The program operated out of Facebook's "Building 8," an experimental projects group headed by Regina Dugan prior to her October 2017 departure. </p>
<p>The collaboration between Facebook and Hospitals would figure out if a user's combined information could improve patient care - for example, if an elderly patient doesn't have nearby close friends or much community support, the Facebook program might decide to send a nurse over to check in after a medical procedure. </p>
<p><strong>Of course, no word on whether this data would be then sold - perhaps to insurance companies, or whether Facebook would use patient data to better "microtarget" patients with relevant advertisements for pharmaceuticals used to treat various conditions. </strong></p>
<p>Cathleen Gates, interim CEO of the American College of Cardiology, explained the benefits of the plan in a quote provided by Facebook: </p>
<blockquote><p>"For the first time in history, people are sharing information about themselves online in ways that may help determine how to improve their health. As part of its mission to transform cardiovascular care and improve heart health, the American College of Cardiology has been engaged in discussions with Facebook around the use of anonymized Facebook data, coupled with anonymized ACC data, to further scientific research on the ways social media can aid in the prevention and treatment of heart disease—the #1 cause of death in the world. This partnership is in the very early phases as we work on both sides to ensure privacy, transparency and scientific rigor. No data has been shared between any parties."</p>
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<p>Due to state and federal patient privacy laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), health systems are notoriously cautious about sharing patient health information. </p>
<p>The "hashing" technique Facebook reportedly proposed is a common cryptographic technique which could be used to match patient data to social media information - allowing the program to operate while obscuring personally identifiable information. </p>
<p>That said, the issue of patient consent didn't come up in any of the early discussions of the program, reports an individual familiar with the program via <em>CNBC - </em>and Facebook has notoriously done research on users without their permission.</p>
<blockquote><p>Notably, in 2014, <strong>Facebook manipulated hundreds of thousands of people's news feeds to study whether certain types of content made people happier or sadder. Facebook later apologized for the study.</strong></p>
<p>Health policy experts say that this health initiative would be problematic if Facebook did not think through the privacy implications. -<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/05/facebook-building-8-explored-data-sharing-agreement-with-hospitals.html?__source=yahoo%7Cfinance%7Cheadline%7Cstory%7C&par=yahoo&yptr=yahoo"><em>CNBC</em></a></p>
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<p>"Consumers wouldn't have assumed their data would be used in this way," said Aneesh Chopra, president of a health software company specializing in patient data called CareJourney and the former White House chief technology officer.</p>
<p><strong>"If Facebook moves ahead (with its plans), I would be wary of efforts that repurpose user data without explicit consent</strong>."</p>
<p>Facebook told <em>CNBC</em> the following about the program:</p>
<p>"The medical industry has long understood that there are general health benefits to having a close-knit circle of family and friends. But <strong>deeper research into this link is needed to help medical professionals develop specific treatment and intervention plans that take social connection into account</strong>."</p>
<p>"With this in mind, last year Facebook began discussions with leading medical institutions, including the American College of Cardiology and the Stanford University School of Medicine, to explore whether scientific research using anonymized Facebook data could help the medical community advance our understanding in this area. This work has not progressed past the planning phase, and we have not received, shared, or analyzed anyone's data."</p>
<p>"<strong>Last month we decided that we should pause these discussions so we can focus on other important work, including doing a better job of protecting people's data and being clearer with them about how that data is used in our products and services.</strong>"</p>
<p>No word on whether <strong>Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital<em> </em></strong>has been involved in the program following the Facebook CEO's $75 million donation.</p>
</div> HOW A COW-CLICKING PARODY GAME HARVESTED FACEBOOK USER DATAtag:12160.info,2018-03-24:2649739:Topic:17646602018-03-24T18:31:46.658Ztruthhttps://12160.info/profile/adap2k
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<p>Back in 2010, the video-game designer and scholar Ian Bogost created <a href="https://www.cowclicker.com/">Cow Clicker</a>, a withering satire of Farmville and other clicker games that were, at the time, wildly popular on Facebook. (<em>Wired </em>wrote <a href="https://www.wired.com/2011/12/ff_cowclicker/">an excellent story about it</a>, worth reading.)</p>
<p>As he developed Cow Clicker, Bogost quickly discovered something: Facebook gave app developers a <em>lot</em> of data about users. He was able to get each user's unique Facebook ID (Zuckerberg's is"4", as it turns out); and without even him asking for it, Facebook sent him "affiliation" info about users' schools, workplaces, and other organizations they belonged to.</p>
<p>In essence, Facebook at that time outgassed info so readily that it was almost hard to <em>avoid</em> building profiles of people. But of course, it made it insanely easy for something like Cambridge Analytica to happen, as Bogost notes.</p>
<p>He <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-cow-game-extracted-your-facebook-data/556214/">wrote an engrossing piece for the <em>Atlantic</em> about the experience</a>, and it's the best thing I've yet read that walks you through how Cambridge Analytica got its hands on so much data. You hear phrases like "50 million Facebook profiles", but it can seem awfully abstract. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-cow-game-extracted-your-facebook-data/556214/">When Bogost describes precisely what Facebook offered him as he developed his Facebook game</a>, you understand much more deeply what's at stake.</p>
<p>And of course, as he notes, a) there were oodles of people developing apps and games at that point for Facebook, and b) they probably all still have that data, as he does:</p>
<blockquote>But because I stored the numerical identifiers for user affiliations, I still have them. Until 2016, I could use a database-query tool called FQL, Facebook Query Language, to retrieve the details of those networks, and correlate them back to my users. Had I wanted to, I could have recombined that information with other data and used it for retargeting.<p> </p>
<p>Cow Clicker’s example is so modest, it might not even seem like a problem. What does it matter if a simple diversion has your Facebook ID, education, and work affiliations? Especially since its solo creator (that’s me) was too dumb or too lazy to exploit that data toward pernicious ends. But even if I hadn’t thought about it at the time, I could have done so years later, long after the cows vanished, and once Cow Clicker players forgot that they’d ever installed my app.</p>
<p>This is also why Zuckerberg’s response to the present controversy feels so toothless. Facebook has vowed to audit companies that have collected, shared, or sold large volumes of data in violation of its policy, but the company cannot close the Pandora’s box it opened a decade ago, when it first allowed external apps to collect Facebook user data. That information is now in the hands of thousands, maybe millions of people.</p>
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