[_] Death to s/facebook/fedbook and the great CIA social data mining exercise
Aaron Trevena
aaron.trevena at gmail.com
Wed Jan 2 14:05:06 GMT 2008
On 02/01/2008, andrew holway <andrew at moonet.co.uk> wrote: > Sorry for the cross post but i think its important. No, really it's not important. > Facebook is, as far as I can tell mostly owned by the CIA and the > American government. So now they know who you are, who you mates are, > your politic, what you look like etc etc etc and they are free to do > whatever they like with this data. Facebook is backed by a VC which is backed by the CIA/American Government, as other's have said - the CIA could barely organise information in a single filing cabinet - the FBI are the brains, the CIA are the brawn - fortunately, on the whole the FBI are worried about actual crime. > So who is going to abandon sinister social networking sites? The sinister thing is the beacon thing they used, users got wised and told facebook where to get off. The Social Networking market has lots of upstarts that would be happy to usurp facebook, bebo and myspace so they can't afford to screw up like that more than a couple of times. > Or do you need the nipple that badly. Seriously, this thing needs to > be destroyed. No. The National Identity Register needs to be destroyed. The NHS Spine needs to be broken up and secured adequately, with patients giving consent rather than having to opt out, all security breaches being disclosed and data only being shared as required rather than > 50 staff poking about in a celebrities confidential files because they heard he/she was in the hospital. There are very real and serious problems that we face in the UK, just ask the data commisioner, facebook isn't one of them. A. -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting