Could a Bank Deny Your Loan Based on Your Facebook Friends?

Re:Could a Bank Deny Your Loan Based on Your Facebook Friends? by outofcuriosity on Friday October 02, 2015 @01:57PM (#10320137)

We could boycott networks & technologies that infringe upon our ability to exist as private individuals and to self-determine: Don't use the wifi toothbrush or the Fitbit, don't use Facebook or Twitter, stay connected with friends using email or (!) the postal service. Use less technology and gain more freedom.

Alternately, market collusion and the unquenchable desire of people to sell their information in exchange for Javascript-enabled friendships will force us into a grim future where the mistakes of the people we love & an assortment of bureaucratically-mandated sensors impede our pursuit of happiness.

Perhaps it's time to draw our lines in the sand.

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Re:Could a Bank Deny Your Loan Based on Your Facebook Friends? by rm_-rf_slash on Friday October 02, 2015 @02:14PM (#10320237)

Unfortunately I don't expect a boycott will ever work because there will always be statistically significant number of users for Facebook to run their social experiments on, so there won't be any reason for them to stop, even if the populations of entire countries delete their accounts.

I'm still holding out for a privacy-centric social network. Only problem is I won't join it unless enough of my friends do, so I guess we'll see.

I hardly use Facebook anymore anyway.

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