What's your response about data leakage from Facebook?

[usahaali03]

What's your response about data leakage from Facebook?
what if there are certain parties who use the data for their own benefit?

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[bitcoinblog]

Life will still go on.

Everywhere there are Terms and a long list of terms , in which 90% are in protection of company itself. If we buy a product and read those terms and condition .. 80% chance we will not buy as everything is against the consumer.

 

[aleksej996]

Nothing new nor surprising. This is an issue with the usage of Internet in last decade. It has became very centralized.
Facebook is very bad in this sense, but Google is by far the worst.
Facebook knows a lot about your personal info, but Google knows every little thing about you.
They develop the most used operating system with their closed source apps. They track you across basically all websites these days with their scripts and ads.
They know what you search for, what you are watching on YouTube, where you move with a GPS, everything.

Facebook is really bad, but Google is so freaking big that no one even dares to look at it in this way.
They had a 110 billion dollars of revenue in 2017, which is almost 3 times Facebook has.
And this is just revenue, not the actual practical influence and power they hold.
They are so freaking big, it is scary.
I swear it there is anything to really watch out for, it is these guys.
They will own your freaking lives by the end of this century.

[Ishiro5]

My take is just that as much as possible, one should try not to put his/her life on social media except for very basic details. Because, we may just be handing over our privacies to strangers who can do whatever they please with it without our consent. Identity theft is a major problem that should be prevented at all cost.

[SkyFlakes]

For me, as a simple individual, it doesn't makes me bothered. It is because that my data in facebook is not much that can used for any purpose. But the fact that the data were not secured, there is some problems that may arise. We all let facebook collect data but not for others to used it. It is threatening that something like this happened. Hoping that it won't happen again as this might cause some uncertainties in letting this platform use our data.

[seoincorporation]

I get why people don't care, for they thing "I have nothing to hide", or, "my life is not interesting, who is going to care?", so they go on in sharing everything they do, everyone they are with, etc.
The problem is much bigger than we all realize. I don't even own a Facebook account, I despise everything related to social media but this forum, to be honest, but the problem is still big.

Just one example: I don't have facebook, I hate it. But, surely, I appear in many videos, photos, comments in the Facebook page, because my relatives, or even unknown people share it and upload my face with my name many times to their social media. I can't even say to Facebook, "Hey, I dont want my face and name to be in your platform" but, as I don't own an account, I can't even complain. So this is tyranny. If I don't want to be in there, I have to own an account. Isn't it paradoxical??
In the other hand there are many "shadow accounts": Facebook collect data from those who aren't even subscribed to his mad site, but, even so, they collect your data, as they say, "for security issues". Of course it is a fallacy, they just want as much as possible, in a greedy way.

To me, the people willing to share anything, willing to make them public is, also, a sickness. They are voluntarily uploading any detail of their lives, giving it to the surveillance madness we are living. They are watching their relatives, friends and making possible for others to watch as well. This is mad. Truly mad.
I was hoping people to wake up due to the Facebook scandal, but it doesn happen. They just don't care about their privacy, and the wors part, they don't even care about other's privacy.
Sick. Mad.

[Craigjohnstone]

A company of Facebooks size it was inevitable that 100% of its data was not secure. This isn’t the first time this has happened, however this time it has big media coverage. It’s good that users have woken up and seen how dangerous data leaks can be in the wrong hands. A lot of people put their whole lives on to the platform making it a goldmine for scams.

[Orgopet]

Did any of you believe in absolute confidentiality and security of data when signing up on Facebook? srsly? 

[criza]

The moment I have read this question, the first thing that comes to my mind is the role of terms and condition we supposedly read before purchasing, entering, and using a certain program just like Facebook. And to tell you honestly, I do not also read all of the terms and condition I agreed on upon. The data leakage from Facebook issue shook me at first but then I realized that nothing will change, yet. And I think that this is part of what I have agreed upon, since most of the terms and condition are of course, favorable to the company who authored that agreement. It is for the reason that business is business and they are into nothing but what is beneficial to all of them. Yes, nowadays, we cannot hide data from them but the least thing we can do is to become responsible onto what data they will get from us.