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Mr. Luddite[_4_]

On 4/11/2018 10:45 AM, wrote:
On 11 Apr 2018 12:29:25 GMT, Keyser Soze wrote:

Mr. Luddite wrote:

How many people (if any) who have a Facebook account
have received a notification that your data may have
been compromised by Cambridge Analytica?

I haven't. I guess my data is of no interest to anyone. :-)

Current estimates are that 87 million users of Facebook have
had their data compromised.

I didn’t get that one but I did get a notification that someone I knew who
played a game on FB had inadvertently allowed that game to gather info on
other users, such as their names and locations, and that the app
underpinning the game had been removed about a year ago. Whew!

The games and quizzes are all collecting data and luring you with ads
and click bait.

There's a setting in Facebook that allows you to block those games and
other "bait" type posts that show up on your timeline. I blocked most
of them years ago starting with that silly "Farming" thing.

I use Facebook mainly to read and post humorous pictures or subjects.
I don't think any third party snoops would be very interested in them.

I also used to get ads for things that I had searched for on Amazon. I
found a setting both in my Amazon account and in my Facebook account
that prohibits that "connection". That ended that.

I also use an ad-blocker that works well. I don't see many.