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John H.[_5_]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 21:09:00 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:03:02 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:45:55 -0400, 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.

Exactly. In fact, many of them are using the 'game' to develop psychological profiles of the
players.

I used to do the quizzes until I figured out they are all so easy it
is clear they are just trying to make people feel good and take more
quizzes they will ace. I keep my screen size set to 800/600 to the
panel of ads and click bait that goes down the right side is out of
view anyway. When I looked at the "apps" that was pretty much all I
had. I never "shared" the result so that cuts down on some of the
links they put together.
I do more just scanning of the time line looking at pictures of the
family than anything else.

Yeah, I didn't see anything I was worried about. I did cut out a bunch of the apps. Don't think I
ever used 'em anyway.