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Month: March 2018

Walmart-Humana Insurance merger is to spy on customers? #Facebook #DeleteFacebook #Privacy

Walmart-Humana Insurance merger is to spy on customers? #Facebook #DeleteFacebook #Privacy

Like other recent health care pairings, the deal — should it go through — marks a pursuit of big data across industries. Customer data, a longtime preoccupation of retailers, is increasingly seen by health care executives as central to containing rising health care costs…. Having both retail and health businesses under one umbrella could also help push wellness initiatives for customers and health plan members, such as incentivizing healthier food choices, something Humana and Walmart have already worked together on….

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#Facebook analyzed the text of your posts to try and determine advertising interests #DeleteFacebook

#Facebook analyzed the text of your posts to try and determine advertising interests #DeleteFacebook

Looking at the “Ads” section of the Facebook downloaded Archive file shows a list of “Ads Topics”, apparently based in part on text analysis, page Likes and Group memberships. For example, Facebook thinks I am interested in “Glencoe, Illinois” presumably because I made posts about the FIRST Robotics at Glencoe High School (in Oregon) where I had been a volunteer engineering mentor. A post I made about using the Epic Privacy Browser was translated into “Epic (2013) film”. What? Frequent…

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#Facebook “Likes” used to accurately predict numerous aspects about you #DeleteFacebook

#Facebook “Likes” used to accurately predict numerous aspects about you #DeleteFacebook

The key surprise that duped all of us was that our innocuous use of clicking on Like was Facebook’s secret way of getting us to expose everything about ourselves. A research paper showed how an evaluation of Likes was able to accurately predict numerous aspects of each Facebook user: The paper showed that a factor model made with users’ Facebook “likes” alone was 95 percent accurate at distinguishing between black and white respondents, 93 percent accurate at distinguishing men from…

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How to determine if a smart phone app is safe? #Facebook #DeleteFacebook #Android #iphone

How to determine if a smart phone app is safe? #Facebook #DeleteFacebook #Android #iphone

There is no easy way to know if an app is safe. Unfortunately, this means the idea that a “free market” will regulate errant apps is not presently workable as users have no way of knowing if an app is safe to use or not. Free markets require transparency to function well. First, if an app or online service is “Free” for you to use, then you are the product. This is your first clue that your personal information is…

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#Instagram does not need all those app permissions, How to use it safely #Facebook #DeleteFacebook

#Instagram does not need all those app permissions, How to use it safely #Facebook #DeleteFacebook

When you install the Instagram app, it wants access to your Phone and SMS functions on your phone. Today we know that Facebook’s Messenger app harvested ALL of your call and text records and stored them in the Facebook spy database. Instagram is a product of Facebook and absolutely cannot be trusted regarding personal privacy. Facebook’s policy is to collect all information, everywhere. Therefore do not permit Instagram access to features it does not need. And remember NEVER EVER upload…

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