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Quit Facebook and delete the App from your Smartphone. Seriously, delete it. NOW!
TL;DR1. Facebook is sharing your private information, your contacts, your private messages with 150 corporations all over the planet.
2. Facebook continued sharing all of this information with those corporations AFTER the projects that needed this data had ended.
3. Facebook circumvented FTC-regulations preventing this kind of behavior by pretending that these corporations are middle-men between Facebook and Facebook-users.
4. Facebook continued sharing your contact-information with corporations after promising in 2014 that they would stop doing that.
5. Facebook gave these corporations the rights to read, write and delete your private messages.
6. Your privacy-settings are meaningless. Facebooks shares your info whether you allow it or not.
7. In 2017, Facebook shared private info with russian IT-giant Yandex, who is accused of working for the Kremlin.
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-and-facebook-reportedly-had-a-secret-data-sharin-1831192148
Amazon refused to let a customer write a review for a book because Amazon had secretly gotten word from Facebook that the woman was following the author on Facebook.
https://gizmodo.com/turning-off-facebook-location-tracking-doesnt-stop-it-f-1831149148
The Facebook-App tracks your location no matter whether you turn this feature on or off.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-privacy.html
Facebook allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent, the records show, and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.
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The social network permitted Amazon to obtain users’ names and contact information through their friends, and it let Yahoo view streams of friends’ posts as recently as this summer, despite public statements that it had stopped that type of sharing years earlier.
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In all, the deals described in the documents benefited more than 150 companies ... The deals, the oldest of which date to 2010, were all active in 2017. Some were still in effect this year.
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Facebook has found no evidence of abuse by its partners, a spokeswoman said. Some of the largest partners, including Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo, said they had used the data appropriately, but declined to discuss the sharing deals in detail. Facebook did say that it had mismanaged some of its partnerships, allowing certain companies’ access to continue long after they had shut down the features that required the data.
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With most of the partnerships, Mr. Satterfield said, the F.T.C. agreement did not require the social network to secure users’ consent before sharing data because Facebook considered the partners extensions of itself — service providers that allowed users to interact with their Facebook friends. The partners were prohibited from using the personal information for other purposes, he said. “Facebook’s partners don’t get to ignore people’s privacy settings.”
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The feature, introduced in 2008, continues even though some Facebook users have objected to it, unsettled by its knowledge of their real-world relationships. Gizmodo and other news outlets have reported cases of the tool’s recommending friend connections between patients of the same psychiatrist, estranged family members, and a harasser and his victim.
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Some enabled partners to see users’ contact information through their friends — even after the social network, responding to complaints, said in 2014 that it was stripping all applications of that power.
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Facebook also allowed Spotify, Netflix and the Royal Bank of Canada to read, write and delete users’ private messages, and to see all participants on a thread — privileges that appeared to go beyond what the companies needed to integrate Facebook into their systems, the records show.
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Yahoo could view real-time feeds of friends’ posts for a feature that the company had ended in 2011.
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Facebook empowered Apple to hide from Facebook users all indicators that its devices were asking for data. Apple devices also had access to the contact numbers and calendar entries of people who had changed their account settings to disable all sharing, the records show.
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In 2014, Facebook ended instant personalization and walled off access to friends’ information. But in a previously unreported agreement, the social network’s engineers continued allowing Bing; Pandora, the music streaming service; and Rotten Tomatoes, the movie and television review site, access to much of the data they had gotten for the discontinued feature.
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“There has been an endless barrage of how Facebook has ignored users’ privacy settings, and we truly believed that in 2011 we had solved this problem,” said Marc Rotenberg, head of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, an online privacy group that filed one of the first complaints about Facebook with federal regulators. “We brought Facebook under the regulatory authority of the F.T.C. after a tremendous amount of work. The F.T.C. has failed to act.”
According to Facebook, most of its data partnerships fall under an exemption to the F.T.C. agreement. The company argues that the partner companies are service providers — companies that use the data only “for and at the direction of” Facebook and function as an extension of the social network.
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Facebook even recategorized one company, the Russian search giant Yandex, as an integration partner.
Facebook records show Yandex had access in 2017 to Facebook’s unique user IDs even after the social network stopped sharing them with other applications, citing privacy risks. A spokeswoman for Yandex, which was accused last year by Ukraine’s security service of funneling its user data to the Kremlin, said the company was unaware of the access and did not know why Facebook had allowed it to continue. She added that the Ukrainian allegations “have no merit.”
In October, Facebook said Yandex was not an integration partner. But in early December, as The Times was preparing to publish this article, Facebook told congressional lawmakers that it was.
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Two former Facebook partners, whose deals with the social network dated to 2010, said they could find no evidence that Facebook had ever audited them. One was BlackBerry. The other was Yandex.
...
The social network permitted Amazon to obtain users’ names and contact information through their friends, and it let Yahoo view streams of friends’ posts as recently as this summer, despite public statements that it had stopped that type of sharing years earlier.
...
In all, the deals described in the documents benefited more than 150 companies ... The deals, the oldest of which date to 2010, were all active in 2017. Some were still in effect this year.
...
Facebook has found no evidence of abuse by its partners, a spokeswoman said. Some of the largest partners, including Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo, said they had used the data appropriately, but declined to discuss the sharing deals in detail. Facebook did say that it had mismanaged some of its partnerships, allowing certain companies’ access to continue long after they had shut down the features that required the data.
...
With most of the partnerships, Mr. Satterfield said, the F.T.C. agreement did not require the social network to secure users’ consent before sharing data because Facebook considered the partners extensions of itself — service providers that allowed users to interact with their Facebook friends. The partners were prohibited from using the personal information for other purposes, he said. “Facebook’s partners don’t get to ignore people’s privacy settings.”
...
The feature, introduced in 2008, continues even though some Facebook users have objected to it, unsettled by its knowledge of their real-world relationships. Gizmodo and other news outlets have reported cases of the tool’s recommending friend connections between patients of the same psychiatrist, estranged family members, and a harasser and his victim.
...
Some enabled partners to see users’ contact information through their friends — even after the social network, responding to complaints, said in 2014 that it was stripping all applications of that power.
...
Facebook also allowed Spotify, Netflix and the Royal Bank of Canada to read, write and delete users’ private messages, and to see all participants on a thread — privileges that appeared to go beyond what the companies needed to integrate Facebook into their systems, the records show.
...
Yahoo could view real-time feeds of friends’ posts for a feature that the company had ended in 2011.
...
Facebook empowered Apple to hide from Facebook users all indicators that its devices were asking for data. Apple devices also had access to the contact numbers and calendar entries of people who had changed their account settings to disable all sharing, the records show.
...
In 2014, Facebook ended instant personalization and walled off access to friends’ information. But in a previously unreported agreement, the social network’s engineers continued allowing Bing; Pandora, the music streaming service; and Rotten Tomatoes, the movie and television review site, access to much of the data they had gotten for the discontinued feature.
...
“There has been an endless barrage of how Facebook has ignored users’ privacy settings, and we truly believed that in 2011 we had solved this problem,” said Marc Rotenberg, head of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, an online privacy group that filed one of the first complaints about Facebook with federal regulators. “We brought Facebook under the regulatory authority of the F.T.C. after a tremendous amount of work. The F.T.C. has failed to act.”
According to Facebook, most of its data partnerships fall under an exemption to the F.T.C. agreement. The company argues that the partner companies are service providers — companies that use the data only “for and at the direction of” Facebook and function as an extension of the social network.
...
Facebook even recategorized one company, the Russian search giant Yandex, as an integration partner.
Facebook records show Yandex had access in 2017 to Facebook’s unique user IDs even after the social network stopped sharing them with other applications, citing privacy risks. A spokeswoman for Yandex, which was accused last year by Ukraine’s security service of funneling its user data to the Kremlin, said the company was unaware of the access and did not know why Facebook had allowed it to continue. She added that the Ukrainian allegations “have no merit.”
In October, Facebook said Yandex was not an integration partner. But in early December, as The Times was preparing to publish this article, Facebook told congressional lawmakers that it was.
...
Two former Facebook partners, whose deals with the social network dated to 2010, said they could find no evidence that Facebook had ever audited them. One was BlackBerry. The other was Yandex.
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Response to RKP5637 (Reply #1)
I treat the internet like privacy is dead. Only post things you don't mind others reading & knowing it was you who posted it.
Let's all post this today:
So Facebook and The Soviets know I play war-games, go to the Botanical Garden, keep up with friends, read silly Meme's, am interested in what speaker is at the Library and post a few photos of flowers and sunrises.
Okay I will rush to delete my account......
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I love being able to keep up with my family, cousins, friends and acquaintances. Most of them live in far off places and I like seeing what they're interested in now.
The shared history aspect of it all is what value most. There are historical memory pages of the various places where my ancestors once lived. It's interesting to see the old photos and to wonder about what life must have been like for them back then.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1806791499619634/members/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/779324542159457/
So much to learn, so little time.
I could go on and on.... 
- Send a homemade post card to a loved one (I send my Mom one every week).
- Create opportunities for in-person human interaction: Join a book club, schedule regular outings or get-togethers with friends or family, do volunteer work, get a plot at a community garden, take a class, etc.
- Call friends and family on the telephone. The real-time interactivity is amazing!
- Learn to play a new musical instrument.
- Post on DU.
- exchange artist trading cards with one or more friends.
- Get an AR headset:
