[BNM] Death to s/facebook/fedbook and the great CIA social data mining exercise

[Chris Billett]

But it advertises me gay dating websites even when I¹m listed as straight.
Has it analysed my overtly-metro profile pictures or something?


On 2/1/08 14:46, "Toby" <toby at republicofheaven.com> wrote:

> Well, conspiracy or not, I've always felt that theres something dodgy about
> Facebook.
> 
> So whether or not its a ploy by the CIA to mine data about us all, there is
> still data that holds personal information about us, our tastes in
> music/film/books etc, who we know AND how we know them etc etc.....
> 
> Someone has that sitting on a server somewhere and can sell it to whoever
> they want.
> 
> Thats what I object to.
> 
> 
> Toby
> 
> 
> On 02/01/2008, Antony Jones <antonyj at gamesys.co.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> > QUICK. Get your tinfoil hats on as quickly as you can! We are all in
>> > imminent danger!
>> >
>> > On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 07:39 -0500, andrew holway wrote:
>>> > > Sorry for the cross post but i think its important.
>>> > >
>>> > > Facebook is, as far as I can tell mostly owned by the CIA and the
>>> > > American government. So now they know who you are, who you mates are,
>>> > > your politic, what you look like etc etc etc and they are free to do
>>> > > whatever they like with this data.
>>> > >
>>> > > So who is going to abandon sinister social networking sites?
>>> > >
>>> > > Or do you need the nipple that badly. Seriously, this thing needs to
>>> > > be destroyed.
>>> > >
>>> > > cheers
>>> > >
>>> > > Andy
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