Re: storm..../ contacts
gardenchat@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: storm..../ contacts
  • From: T*@aol.com
  • Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 08:05:51 -0500 (EST)
Chris, this is precisely why I don't use Apps on FB. or play  games.  Plus, 
they seriously would slow my system down.  
 
As for FB on the smart phone, having just recently upgraded.....it's true  
that FB will prompt you to put all your FB contacts on the phone.  I wish I  
had said no, but at the time, it was being set up by the Cell phone 
company's  personnel, so when asked, I just said yes.....not realizing or giving it 
much  thought.  It didn't add phone numbers though unless they were already 
 listed on FB.  I had to go in and merge my existing log with the FB  log.  
I will have to check to see if it has my phone number listed now,  that I 
have FB on my phone.  Would be interesting, since I did put a block  on my 
phone number being published.   
 
Going back to using the PC period.....or having your info out there at  
all.  Long before FB was around, someone told me to do a search on my  
name......well, I was shocked at the amount of information that was out  there.  
Came from public records, including my address, etc.   Organizations I belong 
to, where my name has appeared in their newsletters, or  membership rosters, 
all that was available.  Also, the funniest, and later  most annoying, was 
that I had signed a petition (long before 9/11) or any  problems in any of 
the Arab countries...this was back before I had even joined  the AHS list, or 
perhaps the first year.   Anyway, I signed a petition  from a womens rights 
group against the mistreatment of women in  Afghanistan.  When I did the 
search (also before 9/11) my name appeared on  all sorts of women's rights 
websites.  I knew it was from the same petition  since it had my friends names 
before and after....the same ones appeared on  every website, in the exact 
order. It was humerous at the time.....but later  after 9/11) when my mom and 
I flew back to Germany for a visit.......I was red  flagged....due to my 
name appearing on all sorts of muslim websites, etc.   I did a search again, 
and sure enough, same names just on Arabic websites, had  no clue what they 
were saying.  I had to do a lot of explaining about the  initial petition, 
etc.  For years I was hassled at the airports.   Haven't traveled in a few 
years now overseas, so don't know if it is  better....but I have never signed 
another petition since...it was my first and  only time......but to this day, 
my name (along with the others on the petition)  appear constantly on all 
sorts of websites.
 
Noreen
Texas Gulf Coast
 
In a message dated 11/5/2012 3:55:04 PM Central Standard Time,  
lindsey@mallorn.com writes:

Well,  from a technical standpoint it's not going to expire.  The  
infrastructure has been here since 1997, and I have no plans for it
to  go away.

We just have to talk more.  :)

I'm also going to  touch on some of the Facebook privacy issues just for
giggles' sake since  I've seen some messages about it...

Probably my biggest problems come  from Facebook's developer 
program.  Anyone who writes an app for  Facebook can get all of
your data -- and all of your friends' data,  too.  There was 
a recent article by a guy who bought a database of  one million
Facebook names, email addresses, and phone numbers for  $5.  The
list had apparently been generated by an app that someone  wrote
for Facebook.

The next issue I have is with their mobile  version.  The mobile
version takes the entire contact list from the  phone, including
phone numbers, and stores it in Facebook.  You can  actually go
to Facebook and type in someone's phone number in the search  bar;
if that person's information was downloaded via the mobile app
on  their own phone or someone else's, it will tell you who that
phone number  belongs to.

And then, of course, there's the facial recognition  database.  Any
time that your face is tagged in a photo (by you or by  anyone else)
Facebook does facial recognition analysis and puts your info  into
a database.  That database is then sold to security agencies,  
foreign and domestic governments, etc.  Germany sued and  blocked
it in certain European countries, but it's still used in the  US.

I like a lot of things about Facebook, but I don't like how  they're
using us.

Chris

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