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Instagram Accused of Illegally Harvesting Biometric Data
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Everything TikTok is "collecting" is the same that Facebook is collecting, actually it has been shown Facebook is collecting more. And the American government would not hesitate to use any data it can get it's hands on against the American people. Maybe Americans should be more worried about their own government than the Chinese government.
Am trying to download all my information from Facebook so I can have a record of everything (some funny, good times, good jokes, etc on there) and then close / cancel and delete the account - and eventually instagram as well. We'll see if it works this time. Last few times the archive was corrupted and wouldn't open. Typical sketchy ass facebook.
These companies all suck! I don’t use social media for the most part. And it’s obvious to me that until they quit abusing their tech to take advantage of users, it will never make sense.
No. Suck out all the money first, then kill it with fire. Then ban it.
It does for the hardcore Apple junkies. I just come here for the girls.
I’m sure the privacy violations are equally horrible on both services. But Facebook has become a toxic cesspool of ignorant political posts and stupid memes. On Instagram, I still enjoy looking at my friend’s pictures. I’m sure that will degrade over time as well.
I respect your choice even though I don’t agree with it for obvious reasons.
Just preaching my opinion that killing Facebook would be a good thing, and that there’s only one way to do it.
Guys, China is not a dictatorship, please realize it's geopolitics at play, and China has been demonized for a long time. If Instagram is owned by a Chinese company, the write up of these kinds of stories will be about Chinese government ties, CCP spying on Americans, nevermind the world, and nevermind that Facebook already does that, does the NSA have access?
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but...but...I thought we were banning TikTok because they are the evil ones from our evil common enemy China
Most people are unaware of what goes in the background, for example they think that a "private" conversation is really private they don't think any one on Instagram/FB can look at it. Even I, a privacy advocate, was horrified to learn the lengths they will go in collecting data...its pure evil. Your computer monitor size, they keys you press, your cursor movement, date stamp on the links you clicked...I heard Google has a database of wifi routers locations around the world, they do it by collecting MAC address or something like that.
Most people are unaware of what goes in the background, for example they think that a "private" conversation is really private they don't think any one on Instagram/FB can look at it. Even I, a privacy advocate, was horrified to learn the lengths they will go in collecting data...its pure evil. Your computer monitor size, they keys you press, your cursor movement, date stamp on the links you clicked...I heard Google has a database of wifi routers locations around the world, they do it by collecting MAC address or something like that.
the best fine you can give to FB is preaching people to stop using their services and advocating and supporting the alternatives. I am still waiting for someone to create an Instagram alternative. Like YouTube, its one of its kind. There are many Gmail, Chrome, Whatsapp...etc alternatives but not YouTube or Instagram.
Considering it's data pulled from images, facial features for facial recognition would be the most likely.
Carrying a device that can be tracked at all might create privacy concerns. It's been shown in the past that bounty hunters and others were getting someone's location through nefarious means and telecom companies for relatively little $. Could just be based off your phone pinging off nearby towers to give a approximate location.
And Facebook is primarily operated by a sociopath with an ego the size of the planet. Not sure how much difference there really is, considering Facebook is constantly found doing sketchy and/or illegal things...yet it keeps happening, so clearly nothing is really being done about it. Nothing is stopping them from playing nice with this "dictatorial communist regime and government" you reference either. They already did very little to protect 87 million users data from being harvested (or deleted) by Cambridge Analytica.
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God, I wish I could get rid of WhatsApp but 3rd world countries and their crappy MMS implementations made WhatsApp the defacto messaging app here.