TYT: Facebook Privacy And Security Issues

[ihavenobias]

Run time: 05:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VRxExk6Jls   Posted on YouTube: May 12, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 20   Posted on DU: May 12, 2010 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 1429

 
Summary: Cenk and Ana discuss a new feature on Facebook that's raising concerns about privacy and security. You can http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/05/things-you-need-know-about-facebook|read more here>, and if it doesn't bother you, go ahead and join the recent http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Young-Turks/210277954204|TYT Facebook Fan Page>.

PS---The Guardian wrote an article about TYT that includes which Senator refuses to be interviewed by Cenk again and more:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/apr/26/cenk-uygur-young-turks|Guardian Article (Which Senator Blacklisted TYT?) >.

[Demstud]

1. I agree

I'd prefer everything remain as private as possible unless you specifically want people to see something. And I hate that online targeted advertising, it kind of freaks me out. I get an alarming amount of Republican advertising on this website through google ads :-( Also, lol at the little advertising blooper at the end ;-)

[snot]

2. We need a social network owned and controlled by the USERS.

I'd happily pay for it. Spread over the no. of individuals likely to use it, the cost just can't be that great.

[tilsammans]

3. Agree totally

Something that provides the same opportunities to connect with individuals BUT giving each user total control over the information s/he shares and with whom. I'd be happy to pay for that.

[20score]

5. Good idea. Hope someone picks it up and Facebook tanks because of them selling personal info.

[rucky]

9. A couple of NYU students agree...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr

diaspora (origin: Greek, ???????? – “a scattering “) is a project which is mainly about privacy and social networks. As it states itself, diaspora is the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network.

Diaspora aims to be a distributed network, where totally separate computers connect to each other directly, will let us connect without surrendering our privacy. We call these computers ‘seeds’. A seed is owned by you, hosted by you, or on a rented server. Once it has been set up, the seed will aggregate all of your information: your facebook profile, tweets, anything. We are designing an easily extendable plugin framework for Diaspora, so that whenever newfangled content gets invented, it will be automagically integrated into every seed.

diaspora is the birth child of four NYU computer science students: Daniel Grippi, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Raphael Sofaer and Maxwell Salzberg. It is currently hosted on Kickstarter and the software will be released at the end of the summer under aGPL (Affero General Public License).

Here are some key features coming to diaspora this summer:

Full-fledged communications between Seeds (Diaspora instances)
Complete PGP encryption
External Service Scraping of most major services (reclaim your data)
Version 1 of Diaspora’s API with documentation
Public GitHub repository of all Diaspora code

[pleah]

4. K&R

[anAustralianobserver]

6. 'Diaspora' looks like the right direction

"Decentralize the web with Diaspora -

Diaspora - the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network

We are four talented young programmers from NYU’s Courant Institute trying to raise money so we can spend the summer building Diaspora; an open source personal web server that will put individuals in control of their data."

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr/

[anAustralianobserver]

7. I've been reading about facebook 'connections', 'instant personalization' etc,

including watching the latest creepy Facebook keynote speeches.

I think I read that through the new 'like' buttons and other types of connection pop-ups and toolbars all over the web, facebook can track which websites you're visiting *even if you don't click these buttons*, as long as you're logged into facebook while surfing lol

For a while I think most people are just going to connect everything obliviously, but this is a huge development with unknown ramifications. This article explains some of it well:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/facebook-becomes-web/

[earcandle]

8. Up to this point , it has been an intuitive choice not to join twitter and facebook. I have too

much respect for my autonomy and my copyrights....  

[ihavenobias]

12. You forgot

Google Buzz.

[Turborama]

10. That is a really good yet chilling article, thanks for sharing

I used to see Facebook as a great way to connect with lost friends and family. Now it's become a really insidious business tool which takes advantage of people's naivete. I was suspicious from the get go and am really glad the only personal details I added to it was my name. I never saw the point of adding the schools I went to, place of work, birthday, phone number, home address etc.

[activa8tr]

11. Thanks for posting this! I am getting wary of Face Book n/t