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Ian Forrester

Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    "Facebook's News Feed-the main list of status updates, messages, and photos you see when you open Facebook on your computer or phone-is not a perfect mirror of the world. But few users expect that Facebook would change their News Feed in order to manipulate their emotional state."
Ian Forrester

Facebook Alternatives Guide: 2021 Update - ethical.net - 0 views

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    Updated guide on alternatives to Facebook and their services
Ian Forrester

WhatsApp to share user data with Facebook for ad targeting - here's how to opt out | Te... - 0 views

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    "Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp has announced a big change to its privacy policy which, once a user accepts its new T&Cs, will see it start to share some user data with its parent company - including for ad-targeting purposes on the latter service."
Ian Forrester

WhatsApp-Facebook data-sharing deal probed by UK privacy watchdog | TechCrunch - 0 views

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    "Just one day after WhatsApp revealed a sea-change in its attitude to user data, by detailing plans to share the mobile numbers and last seen status of its users with parent company Facebook for ad-targeting and marketing purposes, the UK's data protection watchdog has fired a warning shot across Zuckerberg's bows by announcing it intends to investigate the arrangement"
Ian Forrester

Mark Zuckerberg, Let Me Pay for Facebook - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "FACEBOOK. Instagram. Google. Twitter. All services we rely on - and all services we believe we don't have to pay for. Not with cash, anyway. But ad-financed Internet platforms aren't free, and the price they extract in terms of privacy and control is getting only costlier. A recent Pew Research Center poll shows that 93 percent of the public believes that "being in control of who can get information about them is important," and yet the amount of information we generate online has exploded and we seldom know where it all goes."
Ian Forrester

snopes.com: Facebook Messenger - 0 views

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    "There are many articles circulating about all the privacy incursions of Facebooks new messenger app but I don't think they could all be true. "
Ian Forrester

Facebook 'tracks all visitors, breaching EU law' | Technology | The Guardian - 1 views

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    People without Facebook accounts, logged out users, and EU users who have explicitly opted out of tracking are all being tracked, report says
Ian Forrester

98 personal data points that Facebook uses to target ads to you - The Washington Post - 0 views

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    Say you're scrolling through your Facebook Newsfeed and you encounter an ad so eerily well-suited, it seems someone has possibly read your brain. Maybe your mother's birthday is coming up, and Facebook's showing ads for her local florist. Or maybe you just made a joke aloud about wanting a Jeep, and Instagram's promoting Chrysler dealerships. Whatever the subject, you've seen ads like this. You've wondered - maybe worried - how they found their way to you.
Ian Forrester

MU News Bureau | If Facebook Use Causes Envy, Depression Could follow - 0 views

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    Users should be aware of why people use Facebook to avoid feelings of envy
Ian Forrester

Facebook blocks Admiral's car insurance discount plan - BBC News - 0 views

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    Facebook has blocked plans by an insurer to view young drivers' profiles to help set car insurance premiums.
Ian Forrester

Criticism of Facebook - Wikipedia - 1 views

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    All the problems with Facebook documentated
Ian Forrester

Google and Facebook Didn't End Data Privacy - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    "Welcome to the Age of Privacy Nihilism Google and Facebook are easy scapegoats, but companies have been collecting, selling, and reusing your personal data for decades, and now that the public has finally noticed, it's too late. The personal-data privacy war is long over, and you lost."
Ian Forrester

Admiral to price car insurance based on Facebook posts | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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    "Insurer's algorithm analyses social media usage to identify safe drivers in unprecedented use of customer data"
Ian Forrester

Apple chief Tim Cook criticises Google and Facebook over privacy | Technology | The Gua... - 0 views

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    "Web rivals' business models undermine users' privacy, says Tim Cook, who also warns governments on pursuing 'dangerous' encryption policies"
Ian Forrester

OKCupid: we experiment on users. Everyone does | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Dating service OkCupid has cheerfully admitted to manipulating what it shows users, a month after Facebook faced a storm of protest when it revealed that it had conducted psychological experiments.
Ian Forrester

Surveillance-based manipulation: How Facebook or Google could tilt elections | Ars Tech... - 0 views

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    Someone who knows things about us has some measure of control over us, and someone who knows everything about us has a lot of control over us. Surveillance facilitates control.
Ian Forrester

Stalking Your Friends with Facebook Messenger - Faith and future - Medium - 0 views

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    I didn't realize how much data about me Messenger was revealing to the people I chatted with until last week when I began tinkering with my message history.
Ian Forrester

Facebook told advertisers it can identify teens feeling 'insecure' and 'worthless' | Te... - 0 views

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    "Leaked documents said to describe how the social network shares psychological insights on young people with advertisers"
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