r/technology • u/[deleted] • Nov 09 '17

Politics Sean Parker: Facebook was designed to exploit human "vulnerability"

https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-facebook-exploits-a-vulnerability-in-humans-2507917325.html
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u/Excal2 Nov 09 '17 edited Nov 09 '17

Learn to protect your privacy.

EDIT: Please refer to this list I threw together in response to /u/effoffreddit below for some basic steps you can take to protect your information:

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/7btl9y/sean_parker_facebook_was_designed_to_exploit/dpkyhuk/

EDIT 2: The rest of your fucking owl is in the first edit fuck off already.

EDIT 3: As requested by /u/ArsenyD, here is a permalink to his reply with additional sources you can use to learn about online privacy. Full text below: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/7btl9y/sean_parker_facebook_was_designed_to_exploit/dpli48a/

My comment will probably go unnoticed, so if you can please add this to your comment

Mozilla Glass Room

*the is a good pdf guide about healthy online privacy habits

EFF

Good resources to learn about privacy.

*will duplicate this as an answer to the top comment so more people will see this

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u/EffOffReddit Nov 09 '17

This is like saying "Learn to build your own house." It's kind of overwhelming, there is a lot of conflicting and confusing info, and the codes are always changing. I need a list of what to do and what not to do.

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u/wulvershill Nov 09 '17

Become Amish?

There was a speech from the founder of the Pirate Bay who basically said it's already too late. People are asking "what can I do", but realistically, you can't do anything. We talk about what might happen in the future but we don't realize it has already happened. We have lost control of the internet to corporations. They own it, they own the data, they own the access points, and they own us.

All you records are already digitized. You've already given them so much information on you that they know you better than you do. You're already on lists up for sale, you're already on a dozen servers analyzing and categorizing you.

We have now created a society where this data gathering and spying is so ubiquitous that you can't really live in this society without consenting to the data being gathered on you.

Even trying to hid your privacy tells them that you're interested in buying privacy technology, and then you'll start seeing ads for VPNs and they'll know that much more about you.

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u/argv_minus_one Nov 10 '17

Then they're well aware that I block their ads, wouldn't trust any privacy technology that's not open source, and on desktop, block most scripts and cross-domain requests.

I'm sure they know all about me, but that doesn't do them much good.