posted May 27, 2018 11:28 AM            

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Originally posted by Catalina:
Facebook users should read the terms of use before agreeing to them..

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posted June 02, 2018 07:45 AM            

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Originally posted by Catalina:
@nordicsoul perhaps you didn't read those terms yourself where FB very transparently announce their intentions to do just what people are protesting?

Lots of people don't use FB for just such reasons.

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i do not have facebook. and the reason was the lack of privacy. I did not read the terms but it was obvious what they were doing, so i cancelled facebook many years ago.

however, we need to stop blaming the victim for crimes that are done by people/companies with ton of money to hire lawyers and mislead people with sneaky words. normally and this apply to many contracts (even when you open a bank account) those terms tend to be so sneaky and legally charged that either you are a lawyer (a good one of course) or you are screwed.

your comment makes me thing about women who are raped. "you should not wear miniskirts"

posted June 02, 2018 07:46 AM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Logging phone data without a warrant is illegal even with "terms and conditions" consent.

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posted June 02, 2018 07:57 AM            

WAIT!!!!!!! the consumer is to blame for the lack of ethics of some of the officials supervising food, or for the lack of personal to supervise... when i hear these type of comments i made me think that watchdog government agencies are there (with our taxes) to do their job. they are "experts" is food safety, or whatever needs to to be expert of.. why Joe, a carpenter must become a food safety expert when he is paying with his taxes the useless official who did his master in food safety? because if WE citizens need to be experts in everything, then, what do we need government agencies for? why do we need FDA?

I accept that we need also to own responsibility. for instances, I read the label of every product i buy and many people dont.. however, food labeling is not decided by me, and other than protesting, i cannot do the label, unless i work in the food label of the EU. for instances, there are substances that are ok in the US and not in Europe.. what is the average citizen to do? mass protest? educate himself? of course they can do that, but there is too much the average citizen need to educate himself, that there is only 24 hours a day...

so STOP blaming the victim in such cases. unless you are being paid by the companies doing the crime, you are just justifying the crime blaming the victim...

posted June 04, 2018 02:44 PM            

Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends
Posted 10:14 p.m. yesterday
GABRIEL J.X. DANCE, NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and MICHAEL LaFORGIA, New York Times

As Facebook sought to become the world’s dominant social media service, it struck agreements allowing phone and other device-makers access to vast amounts of its users’ personal information.

Facebook has reached data-sharing partnerships with at least 60 device-makers — including Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung — during the last decade, starting before Facebook apps were widely available on smartphones, company officials said. The deals, most of which remain in effect, allowed Facebook to expand its reach and let device-makers offer customers popular features of the social network, such as messaging, “like” buttons and address books.

But the partnerships, whose scope has not previously been reported, raise concerns about the company’s privacy protections and compliance with a 2011 consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission. Facebook allowed the device companies access to the data of users’ friends without their explicit consent, even after declaring that it would no longer share such information with outsiders. Some device-makers could retrieve personal information even from users’ friends who believed they had barred any sharing, The New York Times found. 6