[dba-Tech] Deleting your Facebook account

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Mar 28 16:22:25 CDT 2018


Those particular pieces of information, CA is not concerned with as much as they are in your preferences. At one point, regardless of any anomalies, your likes and dislikes will out your core personality. The company is only concerned with your voting potential on certain events. Once a profile is constructed, they can almost guarantee, given a certain series of situations and events, which way you will choose.  

This is what make profiling by a company like Cambridge Analytica, so insidious. There is basically no way to fool it.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 12:27:32 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Deleting your Facebook account

All these views lead me back to my original proposition. The best way to
undermine the current database is to create a dozen fictional persons and
populate their characteristics with nonsense.

I like Iron Butterfly. I am pro-life, I am a lesbian amputee shipped back
from an undisclosed war zone, somewhere in the Middle East. I love
Beethoven, but not the symphonies, just the quartets. And Johnny Rotten is,
like, my hero. I even bought plaid trousers in his honour.

So there, Cambridge Anal(itica). File me in some folder or other.

A.

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 2:14 PM, Martin Reid <mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk> wrote:

> But the important target markets , kids, teenagers, women, men don't
> really give a fiddlers.
>
> Martin
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
> ________________________________
> From: Jim Lawrence<mailto:accessd at shaw.ca>
> Sent: ‎28/‎03/‎2018 19:09
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> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Deleting your Facebook account
>
> You are right but according to CA's CEO, all it takes is "likes" or
> "dislikes" on ten items to create a strong personal profile. With thirty
> tags, he said we have a in-depth profile with more insight than the person
> themselves knows. So it does not even matter that you have never
> contributed to a FB conversation...just the most rudimentary tagging is all
> that is necessary.
>
> I would suspect that Cambridge Analytica also cross-indexes result to any
> number of open data pools.
>
> I think Mark Zuckerberg, best summed it up with his opinion on those who
> share everything on social media and expect alsolute privacy, "dumb F**KS".
>
> Chris Wylie is a "credit to Canada," says a Labour MP who heard the
> whistleblower's explosive testimony about how the Leave campaign used
> Cambridge Anayltica data:
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/as-it-happens/segment/15532139
> http://bit.ly/2pMftaz
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "peter brawley" brawley at earthlink.net>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:45:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Deleting your Facebook account
>
> On 3/27/2018 21:43, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> > Its too late Arthur. The doors of the proverbial barn are open wide and
> have been for quite some time. What has been done is done and it can never
> be reversed.
>
> It ain't all-or-none. What you never post on FB can't be harvested from
> FB, and there's an argument for not contributing in any way to
> Zuckerberg's con game.
>
> PB
>
> -----
>
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Arthur Fuller" gmail.com>
> > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" databaseadvisors.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 9:01:44 AM
> > Subject: [dba-Tech] Deleting your Facebook account
> >
> > In the light of the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, you may be tempted to
> > delete your Facebook account. FB certainly doesn't make it easy to delete
> > your account. What follows is a concise recipe for achieving this. But
> > first a little preamble, that may help you in future adventures.
> >
> > 1. Visit Facebook in your browser. Drop down the arrow at the top right
> of
> > your screen and click *Settings*.
> > 2. At the bottom of the General Account Settings, click *Download a copy
> of
> > your Facebook data*.
> > 3. Select *Start My Archive*. This may take a while. When the process has
> > completed, you'll see a little pop-up notification. I suggest that you
> log
> > out and inspect this file, if only to realize how lax you've been with
> your
> > data.
> > 5. Go to Delete My Account
> > <https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account>. (This
> > link will take you directly there; no need to login again.
> >
> >
> > There, it's done. You're free at last. You will receive another message,
> > saying that it could take up to 2 weeks for FB to physically remove your
> > account. Under no circumstance revisit your account during this period,
> > else you'll undo what you've just done.
> >
>
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