Mozilla Launches a Petition Asking Facebook To Do More For User Privacy (betanews.com) 52
An anonymous reader shares a report: After it was revealed that the personal data of 50 million Facebook users was shared without consent, Mozilla is calling on the social network to ensure that user privacy is protected by default, particularly when it comes to apps.
Ashley Boyd, Mozilla's vice president of advocacy, says that billions of Facebook users are unknowingly at risk of having their data passed on to third parties. He says: "If you play games, read news or take quizzes on Facebook, chances are you are doing those activities through third-party apps and not through Facebook itself. The default permissions that Facebook gives to those third parties currently include data from your education and work, current city and posts on your timeline."
Ashley Boyd, Mozilla's vice president of advocacy, says that billions of Facebook users are unknowingly at risk of having their data passed on to third parties. He says: "If you play games, read news or take quizzes on Facebook, chances are you are doing those activities through third-party apps and not through Facebook itself. The default permissions that Facebook gives to those third parties currently include data from your education and work, current city and posts on your timeline."
It is FB's business model (Score:5, Insightful)
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Your privacy is the price you pay for for Facebooks services.
Facebook then trades that information for cash.
It isn't that hard of a business model for people to understand.
If you don't want to give up your privacy, then don't use Facebook, or expect Facebook to offer you services. Unless enough people are willing to pay $100 a year for Facebook private.
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instead of bleeting to the sheep on /., get on those social media sites and tell the 99.9999999% that dont care about their privacy how they're negatively affected.
Re: It is FB's business model (Score:4, Insightful)
Problem is, Facebook tracks you regardless of whether you use their services.
Is it the case in EU ? (Score:2)
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That won't work, period. Even if Facebook guaranteed to never sell or mind that data, that's still data you're giving facebook.
The only way to guarantee privacy is simple - just don't post. It doesn't matter how strong any "privacy protection" (aka marketing) document is. It's still a marketing document. Yes, marketing - because these sites know that if everything is public, users will only post a few things. But if they know some thin
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...having too many people bleed out of their platform.
I've seen more than a couple of posts on FB today from people vowing to spend less time there. You know, posting about it instead of spending less time there. And probably monitoring their account for replies like, "Right on!" and "Me too!" They'll all be back. They never really left.
Their employees are delusional whores (Score:1)
Here's fb propaganda. [facebook.com]
Here's an employee's take [businessinsider.com]
When the truth is that they work for an advertising company that pimp's out their user's data to anyone who pays them. The "tech" they're developing is just new ways to scam users out of their information.
facebook employees are like the whores who think they are the fiancé of the guy "giving" them money and gifts.
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Their business model is to break as much privacy as they can get away and sell the data... Hoping for anything else is being incredibly naive.
Came here to say pretty much this. And to add "Third-party apps? Gimme a break, Mozilla!". Facebook follows even non-logged-in users, (and a crapload of non-users as well), all over the Web. They suggest both products and FB friends to people, based on geo-location data that the FB app collects, and will even suggest friending someone whose only connection to you is having once been in the same location simultaneously. The primary problem isn't third party apps - the primary problem is that Facebook is stil
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Seriously. If you change any of the data collection settings the browser begins to implode. They do no variable checks on any of it and can only opt out of the transmission part (until it "accidentally" transmits anyway).
They were supposed to have a privacy council that met every month... I think they held it 3-4 times before forgetting about it. Flat out rejected concerns about the security of passwords (which proved to be insecure)
Mozilla is a shitshow these days.
Here's an idea... (Score:3)
Re: Here's an idea... (Score:3)
Mo$illa dosen't care about privacy. (Score:1)
Code? (Score:1)
I remember when Mozilla was about writing code, not about writing petitions...
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That was when they didn't have any sort of authority. They were straining to keep their product reliant while Netscape was on its decline. Which its work created Netscape 6 (The fifth version of Netscape) To keep up with IE 6. However it took too long to develop and Netscape had a few more updates and quietly went away... While Mozilla Moved to Firefox which was popular enough for them to start speaking out and being listened.
Ineffective (Score:2)
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However it isn't a long term business model, as these fake accounts will not purchase from the adds.
If someone is selling stuff on Facebook if they don't make money they will stop.
Likely EU and Canadian actions regardless (Score:1)
Ignored in much of these discussions is that the actions of FB, Twitter, and other social apps are frequently in contravention of Privacy Rights guaranteed by data treaties between the US and those nations, which in Canada at least are Constitutional Rights clearly spelled out in the original Constitution.
This is also causing a tax backlash against such social media platforms, which have used "headquarter" locations to minimize tax exposure, or sited data storage repositories in specific countries to avoid
Personal information is for friends, not sales (Score:3)
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How else would FB be able to keep your FB account "free"?
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How else would FB be able to keep your FB account "free"?
Simple: they don't need to make billions in profit. Let people opt out, I'm sure there's still a few people that want to see targeted ads, and advertisers will still pay for those few, just a lot less money.
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No, "we" do not. Speak for yourself. I don't post jack shit to Facebook. My friends? I talk to them. They know how I am doing because I speak to them. My new job is not fodder for my so-called "friends" to stare mindlessly into their phones. As for that last bit, you may want to review this before your next visit back to Facebook. It's
Facebook launches a counter petition.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Mozilla petitions Facebook to Commit Suicide? (Score:1)
What is going on here? In reality it's simple.
The masses realize that they have been victimized and they want to blame it on anyone but themselves (because what is or was popular among them theirselves can never be wrong according to their peculiar morality).
Various institutions (government and corporate business) want to capitalize on this denial of guilt by supporting the delusion.
That's what Mozilla is doing. That's Mozilla's entire business model, just as Facebook's is as an input device to the mass sur
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Counter petition (Score:2)
A petition to force Mozilla developers to produce a browser and not some eye candy laden, bloated, steaming pile which hides operations from the user and breaks nearly all add-ons unless they spy on you.
In other news... (Score:2)
Mozilla is also pondering a petition enjoining the pimps of the USA to put even more focus on preserving the chastity of their girls...