Steve Ensley
Internet Safety Specialist
Facebook Gives Politico Deep Access to Users Political Sentiments
January 17th, 2012
Ok, this should scare you if you use Facebook to share any political thoughts or share thoughts that some one may THINK is political.
http://allthingsd.com/20120112/facebook-gives-politico-deep-access-to-users-political-sentiments/
This excerpt was taken from the above article and WILL result in your personal and private Facebook information/thoughts becoming exposed!
“A partnership between Facebook and Politico announced today is one of the more far-reaching efforts. It will consist of sentiment analysis reports and voting-age user surveys, accompanied by stories by Politico reporters.
Most notably, the Facebook-Politico data set will include Facebook users’ private status messages and comments. While that may alarm some people, Facebook and Politico say the entire process is automated and no Facebook employees read the posts.
Rather, every post and comment — both public and private — by a U.S. user that mentions a presidential candidate’s name will be fed through a sentiment analysis tool that spits out anonymized measures of the general U.S. Facebook population.”
So I am often told I am paranoid about Internet privacy. It is not paranoia when it is true! Bit by bit, drip by drip, your privacy, your security are being eroded. Give it a rest I am told? My response is I can’t give it a rest. Two many men and women died to give us that privacy and freedom! And we are squandering it away by letting technology rule our lives.
Read the book ’1984′ by George Orwell. What he wrote as fiction is happening today! And folks DO NOT BELIEVE IT when they say no employee will see the data, it JUST ISN’T TRUE.
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