[lit-ideas] Re: Today's warning: Leave Facebook if you don't want to be snooped on, warns EU
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 01:07:44 +0100
Facebook has long been refusing requests to protect privacy. They have been
fairly upfront about their lack of intention to protect privacy. On the
other hand, one would appreciate it if the technology that was started by
an undergrad student advanced somewhat to a grad level at least.
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Am glad that, at long last, Facebook have issued this warning. For years
> I've been telling them they should be upfront (although not via Facebook,
> to avoid being snooped on). What worries me is they may have tried to 'bury
> the announcement' by making it on the same day Zeyn Malik leaves One
> Direction. But at least they didn't wait for the news to be swamped by the
> new Dylan album, "Dylan Does Disco". It's possible I haven't followed this
> at all closely but still feel entitled to comment freely.
>
> Dnl
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> On Thursday, 26 March 2015, 21:50, Edward Farrell <ewf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>
> The link is harmless, at least according to my Kaspersky Internet
> Security. Here's the full URL if you're still skeptical:
>
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/26/leave-facebook-snooped-on-warns-eu-safe-harbour-privacy-us?CMP=ema_565
>
> Ed
>
> Thursday, March 26, 2015, 2:00:29 PM, you wrote:
>
>
> First, if you receive a notice of this sort, you don't open it, as it
> probably contains a virus. My computer is fairly protected, but still I
> wouldn't want to test it too much.
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> Are the things okay ?
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> Sharing Facebook notices ?
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://tinyurl.com/oucwdx7
>
> R. Paul,
> somewhat worried in Jackson, Wyoming
>
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