[dba-Tech] Deleting your Facebook account

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi All:

Facebook like all other businesses which handle large numbers of people are being harvested by the NSA...period. There is no way that any business in the US can legally refuse to surrender their data, once requested...anything deemed in the interest of national security. Refusal is treason. 

China is just as paranoid as the US deep state. The only difference, I can see is that, the Chinese government actually blocks sites they deem as potential security leaks or anti-state government sites. We here are slightly different, in that we just monitor divergent sites, black list them and attempt to disrupt them as much as possible. It all end up the same of course.

Things to never do...never have any of your websites hosted in China, the US, in Russia or the UK. Europe still have laws that protect personal rights and freedoms. The country with the strongest personal freedom laws, I understand, is Switzerland but the rest of Europe is all fairly good. Canada, went to the dark side when it allowed the passage, within the previous Harper government and then continued to maintain bill C-51, in compliance with US norms.

I know this is a tech group and not supposed to be political but we as techs are most affected when governments start intruding into areas that they have no understanding of. The Facebook breach was horrible but all our social networking has been completely breached for some time. But it is good to see that people are finally catching up and catching on.
 
Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:52:42 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Deleting your Facebook account

Obviously so, but on the other hand millions of people didn't know what
they were getting into when they joined Facebook. FB claims well over a
billion users, and who knows how much of their data has been harvested.
Nothing can be done to un-harvest the data that these many millions have
freely provided. But something can be done about the future: first, delete
your account, and second, replace the functionality with other software. I
shall detail these replacements in my next email.

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Peter Brawley brawley at earthlink.net
> wrote:

> 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" <
>> dba-tech at 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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