Cambridge Analytica data leak: Mark Zuckerberg just proved to be a dictator?

[provocome]

Since i work on this topic for a while, i am amazed to see how people are still comfortable with current centralised social media establishment. I know it's not a direct pain, but still, it's our personal data we are talking about!

I am referring to the latest news of 50M people personal data leak to Cambridge Analytica:


Early warnings by the Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde:
“We’ve centralized all of our data to a guy called Mark Zuckerberg, who’s basically the biggest dictator in the world as he wasn’t elected by anyone."

https://thenextweb.com/eu/2017/06/09/pirate-bay-founder-weve-lost-the-internet-its-all-about-damage-control-now/#.tnw_nAo82bCV

Fossbytes:
"Cambridge Analytica (CA) that grabbed the information from the Facebook profiles of around 50 million users without their consent."

https://fossbytes.com/facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-breach-trump-election/

Financial times:
   “Facebook makes their money by exploiting and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions, far beyond the scant details you voluntarily post,” he tweeted. “Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as ‘surveillance companies’.”

https://www.ft.com/content/c1f326a4-2b24-11e8-9b4b-bc4b9f08f381

Edward Snowden:
"Facebook makes their money by exploiting and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions, far beyond the scant details you voluntarily post. They are not victims. They are accomplices."

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/975106627513729024

What's amazing, that the technology for decentralisation is already here and does not seem to kick-in just yet 

[Goethe]

The only thing that we can do now is protect our data on Facebook.
There are few things to be aware of if you want to restrict who has access your data:

1)Keep on eye on apps,especially those require you to long using your facebook account
2)Use and blocker to limit advertising
3)Look at your fb security settings and make sure you are aware of what is enabled.

At his point never mind if probably Zuckerberg just proved to be a dictator.
He has been called on by o parliamentary committee to give evidence about the use of personal data by Cambridge Analytica.

[BADecker]

PGP/GPG are forms of encrypted communication. Bitcoin is a well developed form of number transference, and record-keeping of the transfers.

Time for somebody to develop a form of social media that at least has the PGP/GPG encryption, built in, automatically, just like the Bitcoin-core has bitcoin transference built in. Would it need record of everything like a blockchain? Perhaps.

But we need an easy-to-use, encrypted, automatic interface that is a completely open source, hands-off operation, with a simple GUI just like Bitcoin wallets, but for social communication rather than number transference.

[provocome]

Data market is on demand and many of the scenarios are already known:

1) commercial use of our personal data sales
2) hacked data sales
3) forced data handover by local state-law order

Looks like it's getting even more intense these days:

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) orders Telegram to hand over users’ encryption keys
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17142482/russia-orders-telegram-hand-over-user-encryption-keys

[Mometaskers]

There's not much you can do about them tracking your preferences but it'll definitely make a difference if you are conscientious of what you share. Basically avoid giving out sensitive information.

And one thing though it might be a different topic, stop sharing those obviously fake news articles. People are drowning in their filter bubbles already.

[provocome]

There's not much you can do about them tracking your preferences but it'll definitely make a difference if you are conscientious of what you share. Basically avoid giving out sensitive information.

And one thing though it might be a different topic, stop sharing those obviously fake news articles. People are drowning in their filter bubbles already.

What do you mean fake articles?

[provocome]

This guy learned nothing in 14 years! Sad

https://preview.ibb.co/fJaPxx/fb_dumb.png

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/facebook-is-it-time-we-all-deleted-our-accounts

[covfefe_]

Sooner or later centralised data are going to be leaked, stolen or damaged. It's time the world move forward do decentralised social networks that are decipherable only on client side.

[Mometaskers]

There's not much you can do about them tracking your preferences but it'll definitely make a difference if you are conscientious of what you share. Basically avoid giving out sensitive information.

And one thing though it might be a different topic, stop sharing those obviously fake news articles. People are drowning in their filter bubbles already.

What do you mean fake articles?

"Articles" from dubious blogs and sites. The most common examples are those saying so-and-so person has already died, etc. Plenty of these sort of stuff online these days. Or those health scare posts saying so-and-so is dangerous. I hate when friends share such things so I usually ignore them, heck even unfollow. We truly are living in the Misinformation Era.

[uwr]

facebook is a dinosour, and soon will be replaced by decetralized social networks.
As goverments will be replaced with decentralized voting system.
Support UNIFY World Revolution

[Goethe]

facebook is a dinosour, and soon will be replaced by decetralized social networks.
As goverments will be replaced with decentralized voting system.
Support UNIFY World Revolution

The power of giant platform like Facebook leads to problem ranging from the threat of government-ordered censorship to more subtle,algorithmic biases in the curation of the content user consume.
In response ,there is a growing movement among free speech advocates to create new technology to address these concerns.
The idea is to return to the gold old days of the early '90 s web,when the users published content directly in a user-friendly decentralized fashion,without the need for corporate intermediaries and their aspirational approach.

[provocome]

There's not much you can do about them tracking your preferences but it'll definitely make a difference if you are conscientious of what you share. Basically avoid giving out sensitive information.

And one thing though it might be a different topic, stop sharing those obviously fake news articles. People are drowning in their filter bubbles already.

What do you mean fake articles?

"Articles" from dubious blogs and sites. The most common examples are those saying so-and-so person has already died, etc. Plenty of these sort of stuff online these days. Or those health scare posts saying so-and-so is dangerous. I hate when friends share such things so I usually ignore them, heck even unfollow. We truly are living in the Misinformation Era.

Very true, i think fakenews trend got accelerated by current social networks, especially facebook.