ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

You have probably be reading or hearing about the controversy involving Cambridge Analytica. If not, here is a brief explanation that appeared in an article entitled "It's Time To Protect Yourself (And Your Friends) From Facebook" https://mashable.com/2018/03/19/protect-yourself-and-your-friends-from-facebook/#g4hW2nLzuZqV

"The time for ignorance is over. We need social responsibility to counterbalance a bad product. The public learned in alarming detail this weekend how a Trump-aligned firm called Cambridge Analytica managed to collect data on 50 million people using Facebook. All, as the Guardian put it, to "predict and influence choices at the b****t box." Individuals who opted into Cambridge Analytica's service — which was disguised as a personality quiz on Facebook — made their friends vulnerable to this manipulation, as well."

Just so you are not misled into thinking this is a dig against Trump, you should read the article entitled, "Obama's Former Campaign Director Makes Bombshell Claim: Facebook Was "On Our Side" https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-19/obamas-former-campaign-director-makes-bombshell-facebook-claim-they-were-our-side

Here is the gist of that article, "Carol Davidsen, who served as Obama's director of integration and media analytics during his 2012 campaign (in her LinkedIn profile she says she was responsible for "The Optimizer" & "Narwhal" big data analytics platforms), claims - with evidence, that Facebook found out about a massive data-mining operation they were conducting to "suck out the whole social graph" in order to target potential v**ers. After Facebook found out, they knowingly allowed them to continue doing it because they were supportive of the campaign."

So dear reader, what do you intend to do about this? Are you willing to let yourself and your friends continue to be manipulated by unknown and unseen entities? Are you so addicted to social networking that you justify that addiction and believe that you are not being used and abused, and that you see through all the lies and manipulation of the Pay-Ops masters? If so, the damage is already done, and you are beyond hope.

cali

This is a lie. The true story is it's about obomba, not Trump. Stop spreading this lie about Trump.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/03/19/obama-campaign-staffer-says-facebook-allowed-harvest-masses-data/amp/

Weasel Loc: In the Great State Of Indiana!!

People just don't understand who is fighting for them in Washington. These i***ts do not have enough common sense to look at, and understand time lines. It is just blame Trump twenty four sevens, no matter who the guilty parties are. It's all Trump's Fault. Just ask Louis Faracan, and Maxine Waters. They are truly fighting for the rights of americans.-NOT!##!!

Kevyn

If it’s from Brietbart you can count on it being bulllllshiiit.

Kevyn

There is a strange quality that most suckers and chumps share, they rarely learn from their mistakes. The same chump can be seen year after year being husteled by a carnival huckster on the midway, pissing away his paycheck on lucky numbers or buying a 99 dollar down used car from the same guy who sold him one the year before with a sawdust filled t***smission and rod knock. That quality is unfounded hubris, they will never admit to being swindled. Any con man can see guys like this from a mile away appeal to their ego and sell them on the multi level marketing or time share vacation property of the day.

Many Americans were played in the last e******n by a bloated orange pimp of a used car salesman who loosely conspired with Russian criminals to lie to the public and manipulate them into ignoring reality. Polls show a large number of Americans regret their v**e and are disgusted and outraged that they were snookered. But a core of chumps will deliberately ignore the obvious t***h rather than admit they are suckers who were manipulated like putty in a con mans hands. And you can bet your money that most of these sad sacks will be there every time they hear the huckster bark “step right up ladies and gentlemen have I got a deal for you” MAGA my ass.

cali

Ok. You're the one with the backwards article. But ok. Also, since you are a lib tard, you certainly will not be opp reprimanded for incinuating a swear word like i was as a conservative #ThumbsUp and #MiddleFinger all at the same time.

cali

Libs don't care about facts. Facts.

1ProudAmerican

You loony libs may be stupid enough to fall for this crap but republ-I-CANs are smart enough to think for ourselves rather than be influenced by every post on facebook .

ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

You obviously either didn't read my post, or you did not understand it. If you are a Facebook user (Republican or Democrat), you obviously care about social interactions and sharing with he world all sorts of sensitive information about yourself. So, all the outrage in the media about Cambridge Analytica and how they USED and MISUSED the information about people to Manipulate their v**e is Bulls**t. If you voluntarily share your information with the world, and allow your friends to link to that information, then all of you should not complain about anyone using that same information to try to manipulate how you v**e, or purchase some type of product.

ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

The hits keep coming - read about how data harvesting was "Shockingly Routine" at Facebook. Anything to make a buck!

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-20/former-facebook-employee-says-cambridge-analytica-style-data-harvesting-was

ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

Facebook makes their money by exploiting and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions, far beyond the scant details you voluntarily post. They are not victims. They are accomplices.

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) March 17, 2018

Crayons Loc: St Jo, Texas

It's a little too late for most folks...their barn door was left open for decades;
They've been hacked, tracked and harvested for so long there's nothing they can do.

Very few have seen the covert operations of google up close like I did in 03, Started
warning folks then that f**ebook, googler et'al were part of the 5eyes...did anyone listen?

Answer = No they just called folks like me tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists..."Ask me if I care".
It takes 4 weeks to harden a computer and router from scratch unless you have a copy of your
work on a thumb drive or disk to move to a clean machine. The final Icing on the cake includes
a NetLimiter/port sniffer, knowledge of DNS servers and a VPN.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

This is just too funny. Data mining has been around for quite a while and I'll guarantee you, Obama and Clinton used it ten times as much as the Trump campaign did.