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Topic: 17000 sign up to lawsuit against Facebook for supporting NSA spying (Read 1716 times)

hero member
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Fundamental problem is the crook we elected in place.

Solution would be vote out every politician that support NSA, CIA and FBI.

All the politicians are crooks and serve the same circles. Elections are only an illusion of choice for keeping the dumb slaves in their place.

hero member
Activity: 988
Merit: 1000
Sadly the law suit won't have much ground to stand on and will just be brushed aside.
I doubt it will be brushed aside, but I don't think the plaintiffs will win. This looks like a way for class-action trial lawyers attempting to bully their way to get a settlement from facebook so they can get paid.

This was said above, but it should be said again that the best way to stop the spying is at the polls.

we must keep the independence and freedom of the digital world, i do not agreed to allow FB to track my digital wen i signed up
Facebook is always going to track you to some extent. This is just how FB is setup. Even if they were not to do it for advertising purposes, they would do it to be able to do it via whatever you post on your wall, status, other people's wall, ect.

'Targeted' advertising is the USP of internet companies like facebook and google. But sharing of information, especially of users all over the world, with the US government? I am not sure whether that is acceptable.
This is not acceptable but it is not an issue with facebook, it is an issue with the government. This was something that facebook has been forced to do. A much better solution would be to elect politicians that would put an end to this kind of requests for information.
full member
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Facebook users who use the service already sign the privacy agreement. I don't see how the lawsuit can work for something you already agree on and "give up".
hero member
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Just stop using Facebook. Lips sealed
The solution is not that easy. Even if you do not use facebook, facebook keeps track of you using the 'like' buttons on other sites. There are many of those 'like' or 'share' buttons all over the web. You have to block the entire domains they own to prevent them spying on you.
I think this is illegal actually: as you didn't register or accept facebook terms of service they also track you.
Someone can logout of facebook and clear their cookies. This would make it so they would have no real way of tracking you since facebook uses your account to track you.
legendary
Activity: 1078
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Just stop using Facebook. Lips sealed
The solution is not that easy. Even if you do not use facebook, facebook keeps track of you using the 'like' buttons on other sites. There are many of those 'like' or 'share' buttons all over the web. You have to block the entire domains they own to prevent them spying on you.
I think this is illegal actually: as you didn't register or accept facebook terms of service they also track you.


Those sites should also stop using Facebook.  Therefore, we should stop using sites which support Facebook supporting the NSA.  Enough people do this and I guarantee you the web will change in the way you desire.  Anyway, I don't think asking government is a good idea, considering they're the major source of the problem to begin with; if anything they'll pretend to solve the problem to trick you into believing it's safe, when the problem persists in a different form.

There's this tool which stops the like buttons from tracking you: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/donottrackplus/?src=search

Also, IIRC, Facebook isn't the only one who tracks you through those buttons; Google is the only other culprit that comes to mind, though I believe there's more.  That tool should block them, though.  While I agree that it's no fun to have to use these extra precautions to protect oneself on the web, we must remember that the web is this way out of our will; whatever people consent to will continue, and consenting to the use of sites which watch what we do is resolved only by refusing revenue to said sites.
sr. member
Activity: 518
Merit: 250
Just stop using Facebook. Lips sealed
The solution is not that easy. Even if you do not use facebook, facebook keeps track of you using the 'like' buttons on other sites. There are many of those 'like' or 'share' buttons all over the web. You have to block the entire domains they own to prevent them spying on you.
I think this is illegal actually: as you didn't register or accept facebook terms of service they also track you.
legendary
Activity: 1078
Merit: 1003
Just stop using Facebook. Lips sealed
legendary
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support this lawsuit! What is my concern is no matter how many people sign up to lawsuit, the important thing is that do you have solid evidence to  against facebook? what is the chance of winning such case?
sr. member
Activity: 518
Merit: 250
Sadly the law suit won't have much ground to stand on and will just be brushed aside.
I doubt it will be brushed aside, but I don't think the plaintiffs will win. This looks like a way for class-action trial lawyers attempting to bully their way to get a settlement from facebook so they can get paid.

This was said above, but it should be said again that the best way to stop the spying is at the polls.

we must keep the independence and freedom of the digital world, i do not agreed to allow FB to track my digital wen i signed up
Facebook is always going to track you to some extent. This is just how FB is setup. Even if they were not to do it for advertising purposes, they would do it to be able to do it via whatever you post on your wall, status, other people's wall, ect.

'Targeted' advertising is the USP of internet companies like facebook and google. But sharing of information, especially of users all over the world, with the US government? I am not sure whether that is acceptable.
Indeed, targeted advertising is different than all data you ever put in facebook. People always have some trust with a company - for example, if you order a pizza you don't expect it will be poisoned. In the same way, if you use a social network - you don't expect all of  your data to be copied. Sadly, the government doesn't protect the customers and instead abuses.

legendary
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Gamdom.com
Good luck with conveying the dangers of big brother to the average voter, and why would government abandon such a resource?

I think that's the problem, seems like more and more people couldn't care less about their online privacy. It's got to the point now that people want to share all their private information on social media without any consideration how that data will be used in the future by say advertisers, future employers, government agencies etc.
legendary
Activity: 1358
Merit: 1000
Sadly the law suit won't have much ground to stand on and will just be brushed aside.
I doubt it will be brushed aside, but I don't think the plaintiffs will win. This looks like a way for class-action trial lawyers attempting to bully their way to get a settlement from facebook so they can get paid.

This was said above, but it should be said again that the best way to stop the spying is at the polls.

we must keep the independence and freedom of the digital world, i do not agreed to allow FB to track my digital wen i signed up
Facebook is always going to track you to some extent. This is just how FB is setup. Even if they were not to do it for advertising purposes, they would do it to be able to do it via whatever you post on your wall, status, other people's wall, ect.

'Targeted' advertising is the USP of internet companies like facebook and google. But sharing of information, especially of users all over the world, with the US government? I am not sure whether that is acceptable.
hero member
Activity: 988
Merit: 1000
Sadly the law suit won't have much ground to stand on and will just be brushed aside.
I doubt it will be brushed aside, but I don't think the plaintiffs will win. This looks like a way for class-action trial lawyers attempting to bully their way to get a settlement from facebook so they can get paid.

This was said above, but it should be said again that the best way to stop the spying is at the polls.

we must keep the independence and freedom of the digital world, i do not agreed to allow FB to track my digital wen i signed up
Facebook is always going to track you to some extent. This is just how FB is setup. Even if they were not to do it for advertising purposes, they would do it to be able to do it via whatever you post on your wall, status, other people's wall, ect.
sr. member
Activity: 280
Merit: 250
Sadly the law suit won't have much ground to stand on and will just be brushed aside.
I doubt it will be brushed aside, but I don't think the plaintiffs will win. This looks like a way for class-action trial lawyers attempting to bully their way to get a settlement from facebook so they can get paid.

This was said above, but it should be said again that the best way to stop the spying is at the polls.

we must keep the independence and freedom of the digital world, i do not agreed to allow FB to track my digital wen i signed up
sr. member
Activity: 280
Merit: 250
This will be an epic failure. They agreed to allow FB to track their digital life when they signed up.

Check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfnKmPQdapw

EDIT

This one is funny as hell, lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmre4SeWunk
legendary
Activity: 1652
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bigtimespaghetti.com
Sadly the law suit won't have much ground to stand on and will just be brushed aside.
I doubt it will be brushed aside, but I don't think the plaintiffs will win. This looks like a way for class-action trial lawyers attempting to bully their way to get a settlement from facebook so they can get paid.

This was said above, but it should be said again that the best way to stop the spying is at the polls.

Good luck with conveying the dangers of big brother to the average voter, and why would government abandon such a resource? I secretly hope to be surprised one day, but I expect I'll be so cynical maybe I won't even see a change for the better if it slapped me!
legendary
Activity: 1358
Merit: 1000
Sadly the law suit won't have much ground to stand on and will just be brushed aside.
I doubt it will be brushed aside, but I don't think the plaintiffs will win. This looks like a way for class-action trial lawyers attempting to bully their way to get a settlement from facebook so they can get paid.

This was said above, but it should be said again that the best way to stop the spying is at the polls.

There should be lawsuits outside the US as well.
Maybe in Europe...
hero member
Activity: 988
Merit: 1000
Sadly the law suit won't have much ground to stand on and will just be brushed aside.
I doubt it will be brushed aside, but I don't think the plaintiffs will win. This looks like a way for class-action trial lawyers attempting to bully their way to get a settlement from facebook so they can get paid.

This was said above, but it should be said again that the best way to stop the spying is at the polls.
sr. member
Activity: 462
Merit: 250
Many people have been lured onto facebook wih promises of friend or family only exposure amongst other things.

It is clear that this is NOT what facebook is for. Clearly trust has been manipulated and/or broken by facebook.

Whether people see the need or advantage of it or not there are obvious and admitted psychological tests being undertaken without consent.
hero member
Activity: 532
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Currently held as collateral by monbux
Sadly the law suit won't have much ground to stand on and will just be brushed aside.
full member
Activity: 231
Merit: 100
Fundamental problem is the crook we elected in place.

Solution would be vote out every politician that support NSA, CIA and FBI.
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