Do it. Don't worry. It's fine. You were fine before facebook, and you'll be fine after. You'll just end up with more time.
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Millions of Facebook Records Exposed on Amazon Cloud Servers
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Do it. Don't worry. It's fine. You were fine before facebook, and you'll be fine after. You'll just end up with more time.
And no one cares. Or more accurately, the vast majority do not care. Their resilience clearly demonstrates this fact.
That is why the Google/Amazon hate on here and the Apple privacy marketing, at least for now, is wasted effort. People might as well spend their time shouting at a wall.
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I absolutely can't understand why anyone would even use FaceBook with the given facts about all that has and will continue to happen with so much connected with it. Never used it at all even from their beginnings as I always suspected this kind of stuff would happen at some point.
For God's sake, can Facebook get their sh*t together?!?! It seems like every week there is a new scandal with Facebook!
I dropped out about 6 months ago...my default emotion is anger unfortunately -- and I noticed FB really took advantage of that.
It's not just facebook. It's banks, Home Depot and countless retailers.
I have a freeze on everything. I can't get credit in my name unless I lift the holds.
Data breaches and leaks are inexcusable. There is not a single reason for any data to live anywhere unencrypted.
The only reasons not to encrypt data is laziness, cheap or stupid.
All my data on my personal devices is encrypted. My laptops, desktop, cellphone are all encrypted.
Until corporations are held accountable for leaks and breaches, they will continue not to care to secure your data.
If all they need to say is "Whoops, my bad" and nothing happens they will continue to do it.
I have a freeze on everything. I can't get credit in my name unless I lift the holds.
Data breaches and leaks are inexcusable. There is not a single reason for any data to live anywhere unencrypted.
The only reasons not to encrypt data is laziness, cheap or stupid.
All my data on my personal devices is encrypted. My laptops, desktop, cellphone are all encrypted.
Until corporations are held accountable for leaks and breaches, they will continue not to care to secure your data.
If all they need to say is "Whoops, my bad" and nothing happens they will continue to do it.
Hey guys,
I've changed the title of the article here to make it clear that Facebook did not leak this data itself, and I'm sorry for any confusion over the previous title. I've also removed the password bit because it wasn't FB passwords that were leaked.
I've changed the title of the article here to make it clear that Facebook did not leak this data itself, and I'm sorry for any confusion over the previous title. I've also removed the password bit because it wasn't FB passwords that were leaked.
As long as it's free and voluntary the government can't do much more than nibble around the edges. I never had FB, except for a temporary dummy account, so I can't get too excited.
I do not know how you do it sir. Bravo.My vote is for execution by via explosion of useless, vapid "likes",
In this case while the data originally came from Facebook, what happened with it is something that's basically separate.For God's sake, can Facebook get their sh*t together?!?! It seems like every week there is a new scandal with Facebook!
That's basically a more accurate take on it.
Thanks - I don’t even use Facebook, but this is a stupid article and headline.
A more accurate headline would be “Media company found to have publicly stored user data pulled from Facebook APIs”. Makes you wonder if the authors even understand what they’re writing, or if they deliberately report false information to get clicks. The state of reaction-based journalism actually scares me more than whatever FB is doing about privacy.
The article and its headline were already corrected. You're replying to a post from before the correction.
These companies are way too irresponsible with our data because they are so incredibly money hungry they're reckless.
The article says "Mexico City-based media company Cultura Colectiva, for example, was storing 540 million records on Facebook users on Amazon's servers" but does not really tell us why a Mexican company has 540 million records stored ANYWHERE.
And if a person has NEVER had a Facebook account?
And if a person has NEVER had a Facebook account?
This is getting ridiculous. Facebook needs to start being held accountable.
They almost certainly have a record for that person anyway. If they've done business with any company that utilizes Facebook's business services, Facebook will likely know about them and have information about them stored.
You can ignore Facebook, but don't be deluded in thinking they've ignored you.
Editing to add a source: https://www.recode.net/2018/4/20/17...les-data-collection-non-users-mark-zuckerberg
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-facebook-and-most-users-are-unaware.2170884/
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"Facebook did not leak this data, but it did provide the data to the third-party companies that went on to improperly store it with no oversight from Facebook."
Not sure if that makes me feel any better. Facebook has got a (bad) history as well.
At least if we start saying "someone" improperly stored it. that covers all bases, no matter who is actually responsible.
present, or future.
You can't hold someone accountable for other people they have no control over. Facebook may not store their data with Amazon services again AFTER this has come out, or at least be cautious.
Its like saying an ISP should take responsible, including what we can't control, like cable cuts at sea.
Not sure if that makes me feel any better. Facebook has got a (bad) history as well.
At least if we start saying "someone" improperly stored it. that covers all bases, no matter who is actually responsible.
present, or future.You can't hold someone accountable for other people they have no control over. Facebook may not store their data with Amazon services again AFTER this has come out, or at least be cautious.
Its like saying an ISP should take responsible, including what we can't control, like cable cuts at sea.
I never even bother to create a facebook account
I don't like social media, I like privacy and security
I only care about my life not anyone else life
trying to live someone else life or being in people business is not my idea of fun or entertainment
people knows what's going on and they continue to use FB
is like they can't live without it
the government can shut down FB and I won't even notice
it will not affect me in any way
others will simply have a panic attack if the government SD their precious FB
but hey is all good they can do what ever they want with their lives
I'm a tough man, I'm not a friendly guy maybe that's why I don't like FB
or probably is because I don't like people
or maybe because I don't have many friends
well I do have some friends but is better to have very few real good friends
than to have a bunch of hypocrites back stabbing, envious pretending to be your friend
the point is I have no use for it, plus FB is untrustable and unworthy
I consider FB to be something like make up that is made for woman
man have no business using FB or make up , well at least real man
I don't like social media, I like privacy and security
I only care about my life not anyone else life
trying to live someone else life or being in people business is not my idea of fun or entertainment
people knows what's going on and they continue to use FB
is like they can't live without it
the government can shut down FB and I won't even notice
it will not affect me in any way
others will simply have a panic attack if the government SD their precious FB
but hey is all good they can do what ever they want with their lives
I'm a tough man, I'm not a friendly guy maybe that's why I don't like FB
or probably is because I don't like people
or maybe because I don't have many friends
well I do have some friends but is better to have very few real good friends
than to have a bunch of hypocrites back stabbing, envious pretending to be your friend
the point is I have no use for it, plus FB is untrustable and unworthy
I consider FB to be something like make up that is made for woman
man have no business using FB or make up , well at least real man
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While it’s not Facebook that directly exposed the data, it’s a wonder why these scandals keep happening to Facebook at such a large scale compared to other platforms with large user-bases. It suggests there is (or used to be, given that these are mostly older data from years ago) a lot of carelessness about what data is given to third parties and a lack of enforcement/financial penalties for violating their policies, leading to carelessness from developers.