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VerifyEverything Eileen Carman • 4 days ago

Bob – Windows 7 also has a lot of telemetry that can be turned off. For Windows 10 I use O&O Shut Up 10. You can control all of the tracking that feeds back to Microsoft. For your camera and microphone, you can go into device manager and disable both of them especially if you never use them. One of my biggest fears is Google. Google tracks everything on just about every web page even this one. (I use Badger to block it.) If you use g-mail and Google search they already have a large database on you. Combine that with someone who uses an Android phone and they are better than the NSA. They could probably tell you what time you get up in the morning, when you have your coffee, and when you take care of your bodily functions. So when the Terminator comes looking for people, these Google fans will be the easiest ones to find via the GPS in their phones and even if they toss their phones, by now their faces are stored and their habits so well known that all of the surveillance cameras and facial recognition will find them.

https://hersite.info/alternative-social-media-platforms-to-facebook/

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One Man Requested His Digital Finger Print On Facebook Which Came Out To Be More Than 1 Thousand Pages Long

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Snippets From May 10, 2016‘s “Is Facebook Violating Your Privacy Rights? “ freeadvice.com

Facebook launched a “Tag Suggestions” feature in 2010 that is meant to encourage users to tag photographs. A “tag” links a person in a photograph posted to Facebook to that person’s Facebook profile. “Tag Suggestions” uses facial recognition software to compare faces in uploaded photographs to other faces on Facebook in an attempt to associate those faces with Facebook profiles. If the software matches a face to a Facebook user, it will suggest that the photograph be tagged with the user’s name.

A federal class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California alleges that Facebook’s use of facial recognition technology violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). That law prohibits companies from gathering biometric data from consumers without their permission.

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Other very interesting snippets from this article:

” Biometric information to which the law applies includes a retina or iris scan, fingerprint, voiceprint, or scan of hand or face geometry”

“The plaintiffs who brought the lawsuit argued that they did not agree to Facebook’s terms of use. Yet when they registered for Facebook, they all checked a box confirming that they had “read and agreed to” Facebook’s Terms of Use and Privacy Statement”

“The common understanding that website users almost never read the site’s terms of use did not alter the court’s conclusion that the plaintiffs entered into a valid contract with Facebook”

Although Texas and Connecticut have joined Illinois in enacting biometric data protection laws, the remaining 47 states have no law protecting biometric data.

11 Jun 2016

Facebook is going to delete your synced photos in a few weeks’ time unless you install another of its apps.

Now if that sentence puzzled you, you’re not alone. Many users have no idea that the synced photos album even exists, or that Facebook may have had access to their private photos since 2012.

Back then, the ‘synced’ or ‘synced from phone’ section of Facebook photos was launched, but most users did not know that this gave the app access to their private albums.

The update allowed Facebook users to sync automatically all the photos taken on their iPhone with their social profile, reports TechCrunch.

May 19, 2016

Facebook may have violated federal privacy laws by scanning private messages, according to a lawsuit certified for class action yesterday in Northern California District Court. The allegations center around Facebook’s practice of scanning and logging URLs sent through the site’s private messaging system.