Facebook's Privacy Policy is History - Comments Page 1

I dumped Facebook 5 or more years ago. I am not on any social media platform.I did not like what I was hearing and seeing back then, and now I am finding out that I was right

Years ago, I was on Facebook. Then on 3 different occasions my security was compromised. Although I had a very limited number of people who had access to my Facebook account - all family- other people had access to me. There were scams sent to me and viruses which got into my computer.

I closed the Facebook account. At least I thought I did. But, now, about 10 years later, I am receiving notices from Facebook about updates, photos etc from family members who are on Facebook.

No, I have not returned to Facebook. No, I have not used my account in the 10 years since I left it. But, they know me, and my family. That is scary as .... you fill in the blank.

Being on or off of social media really doesn't make a whole lot of difference anymore. There are cameras everywhere that record you hundreds if not thousands of times every day. Every time you use a credit card your data is captured by multiple entities. Your "smart" tv tracks what you watch even while the cable company that is providing you those shows is tracking your viewing habits. There is no such thing as privacy anymore. Being on or off of a social media platform such as Facebook is almost irrelevant as long as you are not posting your every movement and activity there. All of that same data is being captured by numerous other sources and being sold to the same customer base that Facebook sells data to.

In short "All your Data are belong to us!" Just from the shenanigans their first couple of years, I figures it was only ever going to get worse until someone smacked them down-- so I never set up an account. Apparently, even that isn't enough to guarantee that they they don't have data of mine that they're claiming is theirs. May they rot in a hot sulfurous place!

Bob: I guess our wonderful leadership in DC is done looking or having anymore talks with Zuckerberg regarding privacy issues?

Doesn't sound like the data policy squares well with
the EU rules on opt-in vs. opt-out. Or do Euro-users get a different agreement?

I have never been on Facebook or any other "social media".
In actuality, with all the things that happen on these so-called services, they are really "anti=social media". They say they are providing a service in exchange for your data. It is not an equal exchange. The user gets a frivolity compared to the value of the user data! It is a delusion to think they exist for the user's benefit. They exist so that the people who own and operate them can satisfy their lust for wealth and power.

Thanks FB for proving categorically that you cannot be trusted. I have now finally deleted my account. I have also realized that nothing bad happens by leaving the GPS permanently turned off on my phone and now I only turn it on occasionally when I am lost. In fact, most of the time now I leave my phone in airplane mode and only check in when it suits me. Just had to let my key contacts know I am no longer tethered.

Words can't describe the sense of emancipation this has given me. Who knew that the current FB debacle could have such a silver lining!

BIG Brother "is" watching you!!! and can IT keep your data safe from your government or indeed the Russian and Chinese governments?
It's Orwell's 1984 science fiction coming true

Zuckerberg started Facebook by taking his classmates' faces and other data without asking permission. He should have been sued into oblivion right then.

BIG Brother "is" watching you!!! and can IT keep your data safe from your government or indeed the Russian and Chinese governments?
It's Orwell's 1984 science fiction coming true

What is Facebook? What's Twitter? Seriously, I've felt no need to use any social media platform. E-mail and telephone still works for me. Heck, on occasion I even use the U.S. Postal Service. It's not that I'm antisocial, I just consider social media a waste of time.

The display of your web page is as bad as Facebooks idea of privacy. There are almost more ads than article content, thus making it almost impossible to read. I am definitely unsubscribing!!!

The price we pay for using the internet is that there is no guarantee of privacy or security of information anywhere. Even if one doesn't use the internet (or any social media), our info is collected when we bank, shop, get medical care, hold a job, etc. And as we've seen all too often, places that should hold our info securely - don't!

I joined Facebook quite a few years ago when I wanted to get messages to and from a relative in Norway. Haven't used it since but recently looked at closing the my account - Facebook said to go to a "deletions" page - can't find it. All other ways to delete the account were not connected directly to Facebook - it looks as though some want to get paid for doing this. So now I've just classed Facebook mail as "Junk" so at least I don't see it anymore.

I don't really fear FB with my data as much as the Giant Equifax data breach of 143 million people personal info on the Dark Web like driver's license, SSN, credit worthiness and history. With all this info fro Equifax someone can get credit in your name and ruin your life. I had to freeze Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion because I was on of the 143 million. All this hype about FB is small potatoes compared to Equifax. The only reason FB is being made the fall guy is strictly political and blocking and fading from the news the real problem that is the Equifax scandal...
Go wear your tin hats and get the hell off of FaceBook... Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion you can't unfriend, and they have and know everything about you.

A few years back a friend told me that he saw me on Facebook one day. I've never been involved with Facebook, etc. Which makes me wonder just how much info *they* have about *me*- a non-FB junkie?

I am really afraid to even think about this.

I asked the young lady how she could have thought to post my image to FB without asking me first what I thought. "You" are no longer your own property.

Problem with the Congress and like governing bodies, is they really don't fully understand the power of the new, fangled, technology thingies, and just go about their business (whatever that is), after staging hearings on this or other like subjects, that they really don't understand. Really, when you don't know how to set a watch, it'll keep recording the same time, time after time, after time.

Your contention is "In other words, Facebook is the nosiest neighbor that everyone in the world has ever had." I am inclined to think that the real 600# gorilla is the Google data mining operations... I wait for the day that you can similarly expose Google. It appears no one wants to really discuss the real 'data beast'!

I used "social media" 40 years ago . . . I wrote a letter with a pen on a piece of paper and mailed it to somebody.