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[_] 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.

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