Digital-Kaos Facebook Users!!!

[Canker_Canison]

It's not just the people raiding your profile you have to worry about.
Facebook, as a company, logs all your web browsing history & on-line purchases. You don't even have to be logged in for this to happen.
It calls home everyday to update their servers. They then use this for marketing purposes. Once upon a time they actually sent messages to all the friends on your profile to tell them about on-line purchases you had made. This was stopped, but they still hold all of the details.

No company should hold that much info on a persons private life.

I'm out!

[DJSimo]

It's not just the people raiding your profile you have to worry about.
Facebook, as a company, logs all your web browsing history & on-line purchases. You don't even have to be logged in for this to happen.
It calls home everyday to update their servers. They then use this for marketing purposes. Once upon a time they actually sent messages to all the friends on your profile to tell them about on-line purchases you had made. This was stopped, but they still hold all of the details.

No company should hold that much info on a persons private life.

I'm out!

Tesco have been doing this for the last Decade with their Clubcard database.

[Grizz]

Sadly theres a precedent for that too.

[cablefreejunkie]

all these bloody clubcards and loyalty cards etc are all doing exactly the same thing,,,but they wrao it up and sell it to unsuspecting joe public as the next best thing since sliced bread and offer you incentives etc to sign up

WAKE UP STOP WALKING AROUND HALF ASLEEP

[longserg]

I think facebook is pretty useful...Feel free to add me,
Jane Marx

[Canker_Canison]

Tesco have been doing this for the last Decade with their Clubcard database.

I don't have one of these either. The only cards I have are for the casino & rileys. All that they're going to find out is that I play american pool, drink coke & don't gamble much.

[cablefreejunkie]

Facebook has 20 million users worldwide, is worth billions of dollars and, if internet sources are to be believed, was started by the CIA.

The social networking phenomenon started as a way of American college students to keep in touch. It is rapidly catching up with MySpace, and has left others like Bebo in its wake.

But there is a dark side to the success story that's been spreading across the blogosphere. A complex but riveting Big Brother-type conspiracy theory which links Facebook to the CIA and the US Department of Defence.

The CIA is, though, using a Facebook group to recruit staff for its very sexy sounding National Clandestine Service.

Checking out the job ads
does require a Facebook login, so if you haven't joined the site - or are worried that CIA spooks will start following you home from work -check them out on the agency's own site.

The story starts once Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had launched, after the dorm room drama that's led to the current court case.

Facebook's first round of venture capital funding ($US500,000) came from former Paypal CEO Peter Thiel. Author of anti-multicultural tome 'The Diversity Myth', he is also on the board of radical conservative group VanguardPAC.

The second round of funding into Facebook ($US12.7 million) came from venture capital firm Accel Partners. Its manager James Breyer was formerly chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, and served on the board with Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm established by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1999. One of the company's key areas of expertise are in "data mining technologies".

Breyer also served on the board of R&D firm BBN Technologies, which was one of those companies responsible for the rise of the internet.

Dr Anita Jones joined the firm, which included Gilman Louie. She had also served on the In-Q-Tel's board, and had been director of Defence Research and Engineering for the US Department of Defence.

She was also an adviser to the Secretary of Defence and overseeing the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is responsible for high-tech, high-end development.

It was when a journalist lifted the lid on the DARPA's Information Awareness Office that the public began to show concern at its information mining projects.

Wikipedia's IAO page says: "the IAO has the stated mission to gather as much information as possible about everyone, in a centralised location, for easy perusal by the United States government, including (though not limited to) internet activity, credit card purchase histories, airline ticket purchases, car rentals, medical records, educational transcripts, driver's licenses, utility bills, tax returns, and any other available data.".

Not surprisingly, the backlash from civil libertarians led to a Congressional investigation into DARPA's activity, the Information Awareness Office lost its funding.

Now the internet conspiracy theorists are citing Facebook as the IAO's new mask.

Parts of the IAO's technology round-up included 'human network analysis and behaviour model building engines', which Facebook's massive volume of neatly-targeted data gathering allows for.

Facebook's own Terms of use state: "by posting Member Content to any part of the Web site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, reformat, translate, excerpt and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorpoate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorise sublicenses of the foregoing.

And in its equally interesting privacy policy: "Facebook may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the Facebook service through the operation of the service (eg. photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalised experience. By using Facebook, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States."

Is the CIA really providing the impetus and the funding behind the monster growth of this year's biggest dot com success story? Maybe only the men with the nice suits and ear pieces can answer th

[DJSimo]

They can have all the information they want on me,
I'm just an ordinary, working class, UK citizen, I don't care who knows where I shop, or what I look at on the internet, or where I spend my money, or anything else for that matter, I have nothing to hide.

I can't understand why people get so annoyed about it, unless they are hiding something..

and then if you dont want people to have information on you, dont use the internet, dont shop on the high street, dont watch tv, and dont buy newspapers, dont even live in a house as the council will require you to be on the council tax database, even by just being born you will be on a database as all births have to be registered, their is no escape........

[Bulld0g]

They can have all the information they want on me,
I'm just an ordinary, working class, UK citizen, I don't care who knows where I shop, or what I look at on the internet, or where I spend my money, or anything else for that matter, I have nothing to hide.

I can't understand why people get so annoyed about it, unless they are hiding something..

So you think it's ok for someone to track you, You don't care that people know where you shop, what you buy etc ? I wish i had your naivety

[DJSimo]

So you think it's ok for someone to track you, You don't care that people know where you shop, what you buy etc ? I wish i had your naivety

No they can track me if they think my life is that interesting to do so, if they know where i shop, what i buy, maybe they can target me with some adverts for stuff I actually want to buy, not like all the random crap I get in my junk folder

[Bulld0g]

No they can track me if they think my life is that interesting to do so, if they know where i shop, what i buy, maybe they can target me with some adverts for stuff I actually want to buy, not like all the random crap I get in my junk folder

it's not you personally m8 its the concept. Big brother is watching

[DJSimo]

it's not you personally m8 its the concept. Big brother is watching

Yes, but it is part of life always has been and always will be....

[Grizz]

its where its going is the problem, information is power. the more information a company/the government has on you the more power they have over you, what do you know about tesco? You know what the ads they aim at you tell you you should know. the ads they can tailor cause you let them.
Lets say you try to buy life insurance from Tesco. they jack up your premium cause they say you smoke too much/drink too much/buy condoms/risky lifestlye/. how they know that? you allow them. you go to a different provider, they know too, why? tesco sold them your info. Info is Power/ power is money. Burn your clubcards guys. free washing up liquid is selling out too cheap.

[opsmonkey]

some people take too many drugs.. it's left them paranoid to ~~~~

as for comparing a Tesco Clubcard to the marking of Jews by the Nazi's and the Holocaust well that's just insensitive and disrespectful

[janobi]

or worse still, someone decides payback is in order

Best post on DK ever! I just literally pissed myself from laughing.

Katie is a slut ha ha! Can I get a BJ too? lmfao

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