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#Facebook will disable their features for ads that discriminate based on age, sex, ethnicity and 5,000 other factors

#Facebook will disable their features for ads that discriminate based on age, sex, ethnicity and 5,000 other factors

Facebook’s ad system was intentionally designed for advertisers to discriminate based on age, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, language spoken and so on. They defended it because, you know, everyone does it.

But lawsuits and a Federal investigation have changed their thinking and they will disable their networks age, sex, gender, sex orientation, ethnic, national origin, and so on, discrimination features.

When fake news is life threatening – #CNBC earns an F for reckless errors in reporting

When fake news is life threatening – #CNBC earns an F for reckless errors in reporting

Perennial fictional news reporter CNBC tops them all in an article about the shortage of epinephrine auto-injectors (also known by the brand name Epi-Pen).

They illustrate the article with a photo of a child being injected with insulin in the arm – but falsely label it as a child receiving an EpiPen injection. Epinephrine auto injectors are used on the thigh muscle, not the arm.

CNBC made a reckless and dangerous error that could be life threatening by training the public to misuse an EpiPen. The original photo they used was clearly labeled as an insulin injection but CNBC intentionally and false changed it to say it is an EpiPen injection.

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The Facebook advertising company continues to discriminate against workers based on their age and gender

The Facebook advertising company continues to discriminate against workers based on their age and gender

“Right now as we speak, Facebook is literally sending job ads that exclude people on the basis of their age,” he said. “It’s laudable that the AG has gotten Facebook to agree to some basic first steps, but this agreement really doesn’t do much more than what FB has agreed to do voluntarily.” The agreement also enables Facebook to continue doing ad discrimination on the basis of gender. Source: Facebook is now legally bound to stop advertisers from excluding people…

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"What you see is all there is" messaging

"What you see is all there is" messaging

Much propaganda messaging relies on showing us only a limited view of a story. Our quick acting thinking (Kahneman’s System 1 thinking style) jumps to a conclusion based on what we see, and usually fails to consider that there might be more to the story. Hence, this form of propaganda is “What you see is all there is”. Here is the example that went viral on social media. Here on Twitter, this video clip has been viewed over 3 million…

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WSJ: #Google let's most any software company read your #Gmail

WSJ: #Google let's most any software company read your #Gmail

Software developers scan hundreds of millions of emails of users who sign up for email-based services. Disclosures are often buried in user agreements. Source: Tech’s ‘Dirty Secret’: The App Developers Sifting Through Your Gmail – WSJ They also let employees of those companies personally read your email: this is “common practice”. As already suggested on this blog, they data mine the hell of our emails, logging your purchases, financial records, travel records and more. For companies that want data for…

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#Facebook under investigation by FBI, SEC, FTC and US Department of Justice

#Facebook under investigation by FBI, SEC, FTC and US Department of Justice

Representatives for the FBI, the SEC and the Federal Trade Commission have joined the Department of Justice in its inquiries about the two companies and the sharing of personal information of 71 million Americans, suggesting the wide-ranging nature of the investigation. Source: Facebook’s disclosures under scrutiny as federal agencies join probe of tech giant’s role in sharing data with Cambridge Analytica – The Washington Post

Facebook shared user data with 52 tech companies

Facebook shared user data with 52 tech companies

This is a fake resolution statement: It has already ended deals with most of them. Source: Facebook shared user data with 52 tech companies First, they already have the data. Second, in numerous cases on Android phones, the original code is installed on the device and without root access (which is the situation for most users), the code is not removable. Thus, in spite of the “ended deals”, the data collection will continue until users gradually replace their phones and…

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#Facebook basically gave everyone's personal data to everyone, and then lied about doing so

#Facebook basically gave everyone's personal data to everyone, and then lied about doing so

Facebook gave dozens of companies special access to user data, detailing for the first time a spate of deals that contrasted with the social network’s previous public statements that it restricted personal information to outsiders in 2015. Source: Facebook Reveals Apps, Others That Got Special Access to User Data – WSJ Gross incompetence: Facebook indicated it has struggled to fully reconstruct what happened to its users’ information. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg have been caught lying and can…

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Should reporters pay government employees bribes for leaked info?

Should reporters pay government employees bribes for leaked info?

FBI agents were enticed to spill the goods from reporters who plied them with meals, invitations to parties, tickets to sporting events and golf outings Source: FBI Report Shows Leak Investigators Leak Like a Sieve – Bloomberg From the IG report: “FBI employees received tickets to sporting events from journalists, went on golfing outings with media representatives, were treated to drinks and meals after work by reporters, and were the guests of journalists at nonpublic social events,” Can you spot…

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#Facebook admits they support age and gender discrimination in advertising

#Facebook admits they support age and gender discrimination in advertising

“Like other major ad platforms, we enable targeting based on age and gender” Because, you know, everyone discriminates based on age and gender so we do it too! They also have features to target ads based on race and ethnicity. Which also means they enable advertisers to discriminate by race and ethnicity for say, things like housing or jobs. Facebook mostly hems and haws and says its a hard problem to solve. Facebook can not prohibit racial, ethnic and gender…

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#Facebook logs everything about you, including much that you would never expect them to collect

#Facebook logs everything about you, including much that you would never expect them to collect

In a document provided to Congress by Facebook we learn that Facebook is a massive spying operation recording everything about you, including the names of files on your device, data about other devices on your network or near to you (including from people who never gave Facebook permission), and records things you buy from other web sites (meaning, not on Facebook – see note)… literally, everything. Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly lies about the massive spy operation conducted by Facebook. 1. information…

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Google Reads All of Your Email and Stores Detailed Notes About Your Correspondence

Google Reads All of Your Email and Stores Detailed Notes About Your Correspondence

If you go to your Google Dashboard and poke around, you’ll find that Google actively and automatically reads all your emails. No – not scans your emails – Google uses artificial intelligence software systems to read, analyze and interpret your private email correspondence and then stores detailed records about you. For example, I used to use Gmail. Here is some of the information that Google logged (permanently) in their archive based on reading my email. Google’s spying software recognized each…

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"#Facebook Gave Some Companies Special Access to Additional Data About Users’ Friends – WSJ"

"#Facebook Gave Some Companies Special Access to Additional Data About Users’ Friends – WSJ"

This is separate from the apps that had access to friends of friends data such as those affiliated with Cambridge Analytica, and many others. This is separate from the 60 hardware partners like Chinese phone maker Huawei, that were given access to private data on Facebook. This is new – Facebook gave secret access to many additional partners too: Facebook Inc. FB 0.49% struck customized data-sharing deals with a select group of companies, some of which had special access to…

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