[BNM] Death to s/facebook/fedbook and the great CIA social data mining exercise

[paul perrin]

The data protection act is acutally one of the best bits of legislation put
together in recent times. That is why it is constantly under attack!

I don't think concealing info is the best way to go, controling what others
can store, and what they can do with it is the way forwards - however our
rights should not just include the 'correction' of errors, but the deletion
of information on demand, and the insertion of bogus information on demand
too - as long as it isn't with the intention of comitting, concealing or
aiding a crime.

But noone with power really cares about this - or if they do care, it is so
they can further exploit us. 'Opt out' links on spam... do me a favour...

If anyone is 'concerned' about disclosing something about themselves that is
not criminal, then their right to free speech has already been undermined.

Paul (Eskimo immigrant, 90 years old, female, living in a one bed flat in
stoke poges with 15 chidren under the age of 2) Perrin

On 02/01/2008, Toby <toby at republicofheaven.com> wrote:
>
> Well, conspiracy or not, I've always felt that theres something dodgy
> about
> Facebook.
>
> So whether or not its a ploy by the CIA to mine data about us all, there
> is
> still data that holds personal information about us, our tastes in
> music/film/books etc, who we know AND how we know them etc etc.....
>
> Someone has that sitting on a server somewhere and can sell it to whoever
> they want.
>
> Thats what I object to.
>
>
> Toby
>
>
> On 02/01/2008, Antony Jones <antonyj at gamesys.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > QUICK. Get your tinfoil hats on as quickly as you can! We are all in
> > imminent danger!
> >
> > On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 07:39 -0500, andrew holway wrote:
> > > Sorry for the cross post but i think its important.
> > >
> > > Facebook is, as far as I can tell mostly owned by the CIA and the
> > > American government. So now they know who you are, who you mates are,
> > > your politic, what you look like etc etc etc and they are free to do
> > > whatever they like with this data.
> > >
> > > So who is going to abandon sinister social networking sites?
> > >
> > > Or do you need the nipple that badly. Seriously, this thing needs to
> > > be destroyed.
> > >
> > > cheers
> > >
> > > Andy
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