Re:Facebook announces Clear History feature
by bitL on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @09:26AM
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> Now you have a way to do exactly that.
How do you know? Did you see the source code? For all I know they can clear it in user-facing UX only but keep it secretly on servers in international waters or wherever and use it batch-wise to compute stuff about you, including sharing it with 3rd parties you wouldn't want to be ever involved with. Those 3rd parties then can use FB Cayman Islands or a similar branch to get dirty data. Do you think all those intelligence and society-engineering think tanks would be happy losing their main source of data and won't try to find a way to continue doing it?
Re:Facebook announces Clear History feature
by bitL on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @09:55AM
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Oh yeah, like if what we learned in the past 6 years about what was going on wasn't sufficient to beat our wildest fears... If something could be done, it is being done by somebody already.
How do you know? Did you see the source code? For all I know they can clear it in user-facing UX only but keep it secretly on servers in international waters or wherever and use it batch-wise to compute stuff about you, including sharing it with 3rd parties you wouldn't want to be ever involved with. Those 3rd parties then can use FB Cayman Islands or a similar branch to get dirty data. Do you think all those intelligence and society-engineering think tanks would be happy losing their main source of data and won't try to find a way to continue doing it?