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Originally Posted by sajoe
There was an article in the WALL STREET JOURNAL about one of the political party's use of FACEBOOK data to geofence areas of protest/riots to recruit new voters and campaign workers (POLITICAL GROUPS ARE COLLECTING DEMONSTRATORS' DATA June 14, 2020). This seems like one of the least despicable uses of data mining but were you aware of this? Is this news or "fake news"? How can you know?
Are you aware of how overwhelmed we are with psychological cues to form our opinions by the purchasers of that data? Do you know how vast and personal the data on you is? Including pictures and video? The camera and microphone on your cellphone can be accessed remotely. How about your children's data? Whether they are 50 years old or 15? Have you noticed how many commercials there are on "free" streaming TV channels? When you bought a newspaper no one knew your data but your ISP sells your data and can't be stopped from collecting it with a VPN.
Now that you are aware of these issues how many of your friends, family and neighbors are aware? Most importantly, what can you do to protect your anonymity other than live the life of a hermit on a mountaintop?
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Everything has risk and people are not going to live the life of a hermit on a mountaintop but people need to stop being so naive and think before they post or believe anything they see online. No one should be sharing all of their personal information online and anything on Facebook that says please like or share with everyone should raise a red flag. This was posted by the police dept.