Facebook to Share User Phone Numbers and Home Addresses

Yes folks, the insidious nature of Facebook is revealing itself for all to see. Facebook is going to be sharing your personal info including your phone number and home address with third parties. It tried to do this before but the public outcry was so great it abandoned the idea temporarily while trying to fix some privacy issues. Now it is ready to roll this out again.

It's not enough that Facebook is already an open book to the US government, now it will become an open book to Corporations so they can hound you with advertising targeted to your preferences and location and activity on Facebook.

Guess you didn't realize that when you signed up with Facebook, you signed your privacy rights away and joined the biggest ad network on the planet. And YOU are the target now...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/28/facebook-home-addresses-phone-numbers_n_829459.html

 

Good point there Orison. Bill collectors would be on the list of those allowed to find personal info, since they belong to a corporation. And once that info is out there, anyone will be able to find it since it'll end up on those Internet white pages with phone # and addys. Those are corporations too that mine that data for all to access.

So you won't need to "friend" someone to get their personal info anymore. It'll be all over the Internet... Forget privacy if you're on Facebook!

 

Let's remember that facebook has more than half a billion ppl signed up and is the #1 website in most countries now (#2 in the US behind google). So it's not just Americans who need to worry.

No doubt Facebook is also opening up phone #s and addys to foreign gov'ts too. So not only can ppl protest on Facebook, but a "friendly" gov't can find out who those protesters are and where they live!

So go ahead and start a US revolution page on Facebook and see how long it is before the FBI is at your door. It's fine for other countries, but the US won't stand for it. Treason is a big deal here.

I'm waiting for the Fourth of July Movement to begin in the USA, like the Feb 17th Movement in Libya. I bet it wouldn't last more than a couple of days before Facebook would shut it down. So much for free speech and democracy. Good for other countries, bad for USA...

 

Now just imagine what the gov't sees when it looks you up. Not just the info you mention, but your dob, ss#, tax returns, passport info & photo, police record, school record, every website you've visited, every email you've sent, your IP#, your medical record, every credit card transaction you have made, phone #s you have called, everywhere you have been with your cellphone and gps unit in your car, any organizations you belong to or support, your biometrics, soon your DNA if they haven't got it already.

Now think of all the ways that info can be abused... And if it can, it will be abused. And it's still not enough! They want MORE INFO about you! So they can SELL YOU and CONTROL YOU.

That is what Big Brother is about. So far we're mostly seeing the data mining and the selling. Just wait until you get targeted for political messages. You ain't seen nothing yet...

The controlling will be coming soon. Look at what they've done to communications in Iran. Now just imagine how much more they can do in the USA and other Western countries with even more advanced technology. China too has explored this kind of social control. I hear the next thing China will control after being able to ban websites is to bring that level of control down to the individual user where they can control which sites any one person can see. So some can see stuff that others can't. And likely you won't even know that shit is being blocked by your government, it just won't show up for YOU...

But the control goes much further than that. With the gov't knowing about every move you make, they can easily restrict your freedoms as easily as they can spy on you. They can shutdown your Internet and cellphone access. They can put you under house arrest, they can do this to whole masses of people at once.

So say someone is organizing a revolution on facebook, all those who join the group could easily be identified and controlled en masse. The technology is now in place and they have the info and power over us.

So go ahead and join facebook and put yourself on the radar for not just ads but to be controlled by corporations and the gov't. You are just the sheep fodder they want. Don't think, just blindly acquiesce to opening your life for all to view and control. It's the leash by which you will be led the rest of your life...

 

The Internet "Kill Switch" is more for a cyberattack by outside forces than to control American citizens, but of course when the revolution comes to the US, it can be used to "smartly" control who has access to what. And you better believe that kind of control is now being coded into gov't software today.

In your "bomb" scenario, it would be possible for mass civil disobedience to thwart the gov'ts data mining. All it takes is masses of people to all look up "bomb" at the same time. Lots of false positives makes it more difficult to find the true threats.

One thing I like that is happening right now, is millions of Americans tuning into Al-Jazzera online. If viewing al-Jazzera was once a flag raiser, they now have millions with raised flags, heheh... Now they need to get Al-Jazzera on cable and broadcast. I bet it would put fox in second place and kill CNN!