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Facebook flags Declaration of Independence as hate speech

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By Victor Morton - The Washington Times - Wednesday, July 4, 2018 

In the week of America’s Independence Day, the algorithms of Facebook decided that the Declaration of Independence was hate speech.

The Liberty County Vindicator, a community newspaper between Houston and Beaumont, had been posting the whole declaration in small daily chunks for eight days on its Facebook page in the run-up to July 4. But the ninth excerpt was not posted Monday as scheduled, and the paper said it received an automated notice saying the post “goes against our standards on hate speech.”

 

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/4/facebook-flags-declaration-independence-hate-speec/

 

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I’m thinkink FB should be labeled as a hate crime.  This is a perfect example of their algorithms, which are obviously skewed to the Democratic Party agenda.  Those algos are a shadow PC censorship.  

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13 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

Or maybe Facebook needs to stop being ludicrous.  The Declaration of Independence is hate crime.  Really.  Lunacy 

 

 

Algorithms, what can I say?  The Declaration of Independence is the most important document in United States history.....That said, it could also be construed as a scathing "Dear John" letter to a pompous King.  As always, just my opinion. 

 

Anyhow, I've always said FB's motto should be......"Facebook ~ hurting feelings since 2004".

 

GO RV, then BV

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FB, just like twitter, youtube and most google sites are run by the liberal left mentality who pretty much are socialist who feel it's their right to impose their views on conservatives at by any means or cost.  The  US Constitution is probably one of the most perfect documents describing freedom, and inalienable rights.  IMO, the wording was from God himself.  There in lies the problem.

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A new anti-virus feature employed by one of the most popular web browsers in the world has apparently stirred privacy concerns among some users due to the tool’s discreet nature.

A number of Google Chrome users recently became aware of the fact that not only does their browser allow them to surf the web, it also quietly scans their personal files without prior consent.

According to Motherboard, the culprit turned out to be the updated version of Chrome Cleanup Tool, which uses software from the cybersecurity company ESET to scans users’ files looking for malware targeting the browser. If suspected malware is detected, the Cleanup Tool then sends the suspicious file’s metadata to Google and asks the user’s permission to remove the potential threat.

This development came to light when cybersecurity expert Kelly Shortridge noticed that Chrome actually scans files located in the Documents folder on her PC.

"In the current climate, it really shocked me that Google would so quietly roll out this feature without publicizing more detailed supporting documentation—even just to preemptively ease speculation," she told Motherboard. Shortridge pointed out that while their intent was "clearly security-minded", "the lack of explicit consent and transparency seems to violate their own criteria of ‘user-friendly software’."

Google Chrome Security Chief Justin Schuh insisted, however, that the Cleanup Tool’s sole purpose is to deal with "unwanted software manipulating" the browser.

 

https://sputniknews.com/science/201804041063197557-chrome-files-scanning-concerns/

 
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Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal

 

The Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal involves the collection of personally identifiable information of up to 87 million Facebook users[1] and almost certainly a much greater number[2] that Cambridge Analytica began collecting in 2014. The data was allegedly used to attempt to influence voter opinion on behalf of politicians who hired them. Following the discovery, Facebook apologized amid public outcry and fallen stock prices. The way that Cambridge Analytica collected the data was called "inappropriate".[3]

In December 2015, The Guardian reported that United States Senator Ted Cruz was using data from this scandal and that the subjects of the data were unaware that companies were selling and politicians were buying their personal information.[4] In March 2018, The New York TimesThe Guardian and Channel 4 News made more detailed reports on the data scandal with new information from former Cambridge Analytica employee turned whistleblower Christopher Wylie, who provided clearer information about the size of the data collection, the nature of the personal information stolen, and communication among Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and political representatives who hired Cambridge Analytica to use the data to influence voter opinion.[5][6]

The scandal was significant for inciting public discussion on ethical standards for social media companies, political consulting organizations, and politicians. Consumer advocates called for greater consumer protection in online media and right to privacy as well as curbs on misinformation and propaganda.

Cambridge Analytica released an unverified statement saying that the data obtained from Kogan was not used in the 2016 presidential campaigns of Donald Trump, and Ted Cruz.[7]

According to the Associated Press, a company run by former officials at Cambridge Analytica, Data Propria, has been quietly been working for President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election effort.[8]

 

 

 
 
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ProcessEdit

Aleksandr Kogan, a data scientist at Cambridge University, developed an app called "This Is Your Digital Life"[9] (sometimes stylised as "thisisyourdigitallife").[6][10] He provided the app to Cambridge Analytica.[6] Cambridge Analytica in turn arranged an informed consentprocess for research in which several hundred thousand Facebook users would agree to complete a survey only for academic use.[6]However, Facebook's design allowed this app to not only collect the personal information of people who agreed to take the survey, but also the personal information of all the people in those users' Facebook social network.[6] In this way Cambridge Analytica acquired data from millions of Facebook users.[6]

 

 
Characteristics of the dataEdit

The New York Times reported that dataset has included information on 50 million Facebook users.[5] According to Facebook, up to 87 million users had their data shared,[11] with 70.6 million of those people from the United States.[12] While Cambridge Analytica says it only collected 30 million Facebook user profiles[13], whistleblower Christopher Wylie, an ex-employee of Cambridge Analytica, and Facebook both claimed that the number was around 87 million profiles. [14]

Facebook sent a message to these users believed to be affected, saying the information likely included one's "public profile, page likes, birthday and current city".[15] Some of the app's users gave the app permission to access their News Feed, timeline, and messages.[16] The data was detailed enough for Cambridge Analytica to create psychographical profiles of the subjects of the data.[5] The data also included the locations of each person.[5] For a given political campaign, the data was detailed enough to create a profile which suggested what kind of advertisement would be most effective to persuade a particular person in a particular location for some political event.[5]

The New York Times and The Guardian reported that as of March 17, 2018 the data was available on the open Internet and available in general circulation.[5][6]

 

 
News coverageEdit

In December 2015, The Guardian reported that Cambridge Analytica used the data at the behest of Ted Cruz.[4][17] Cambridge Analytica also assisted with President Trump's campaigns. [18]

On March 17, 2018, The New York Times and The Guardian each published articles stating that they collaborated with each other to investigate and report the breach and to share details.[5][6] Both papers told the story of Christopher Wylie, a former employee of Cambridge Analytica turned whistleblower presenting information that The New York Times and The Guardian used as supporting evidence for various scandals which they described.[5][6][19][20][21]

 

 
Use of the dataEdit

Various political organizations used information from the data breach to attempt to influence public opinion. Political events for which politicians paid Cambridge Analytica to use information from the data breach include the following:

 

 
ResponsesEdit

Facebook director Mark Zuckerberg first apologized for the situation with Cambridge Analytica on CNN,[27] calling it an "issue," a "mistake" and a "breach of trust." Other Facebook officials argued against calling it a "data breach", arguing those who took the personality quiz originally consented to give away their information.[28] Zuckerberg pledged to make changes and reforms in Facebook policy to prevent similar breaches.[29] On March 25, 2018, Zuckerberg published a personal letter in various paper newspapers apologizing on behalf of Facebook.[30] In April they decided to implement the EU's General Data Protection Regulation in all areas of operation and not just the EU.[31]

Amazon said that they suspended Cambridge Analytica from using their Amazon Web Services when they learned that their service was collecting personal information.[32]

The governments of India and Brazil demanded that Cambridge Analytica report how anyone used data from the breach in political campaigning,[33][34][35] and various regional governments in the United States have lawsuits in their court systems from citizens affected by the data breach.[36]

On April 25, 2018, Facebook released their first earnings report since the scandal was reported. Revenue fell since the last quarter, but this is usual as it followed the holiday season quote. The quarter revenue was the highest for a first quarter, and the second overall.[37]

 

 
Testimony to CongressEdit

During his testimony before Congress on April 10, 2018, Mark Zuckerberg admitted it was his personal mistake that he did not do enough to prevent Facebook from being used for harm. “That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections and hate speech.” During the testimony, Mark Zuckerberg publicly apologized for the breach of private data: “It was my mistake, and I’m sorry. I started Facebook, I run it, and I’m responsible for what happens here.”[38]

In his written testimony to the Senate, Zuckerberg acknowledged that the Russian meddling with elections should have been noticed and dealt with sooner.[39] With the rapid growth of technology and the vast amount of users on Facebook, there is a need to increase security and safety measures. They have taken action to ensure more protection. There will be 5,000 employees added to the security and content review team. The team has been directed to put all their efforts into creating a safer space for the community.[citation needed]

Zuckerberg explained that in 2013, researcher Aleksandr Kogan from Cambridge University created a personality quiz app, which was installed by 300,000 people. The app was then able to retrieve Facebook information, including that of the users’ friends, and this was obtained by Kogan. It was not until 2015 that Zuckerberg learned that these users' information was shared by Kogan to Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica was subsequently asked to remove all the data. It was later rediscovered by The GuardianThe New York Times and Channel 4 that the data was in fact not deleted.[39]

Zuckerberg revealed that their response to the Russian interference was slow during the 2016 federal election. For years prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, they were aware of Russian threats from “APT28”, a group linked to Russian military intelligence services. This group,under the name of DC Leaks, created fake personas to seed information to various journalists. DC Leaks was able to create confusion during the election by creating distrust through specifically attacking and promoting candidates. Zuckerberg explained that during the post-election period, they also discovered that a group known as the Internet Research Agency (IRA) was actively spreading disinformation and manipulating people in the U.S., Europe, and Russia by using Facebook as a platform with fake accounts. The accounts were shut down once the situation was discovered.[391

 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook–Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal

 

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You get the idea that someone wants to know everything we are doing.  It is my opinion that the US Government is complicit and their excuse, to track terrorists.  When is the public going to wake up and demand that Facebook, Twitter, Google and many many more of these tech companies are turning our country into a real 1984 Big Brother, knows all, controls all.  

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13 hours ago, Pitcher said:

You get the idea that someone wants to know everything we are doing.  It is my opinion that the US Government is complicit and their excuse, to track terrorists.  When is the public going to wake up and demand that Facebook, Twitter, Google and many many more of these tech companies are turning our country into a real 1984 Big Brother, knows all, controls all.  

 

We live in the information age. In my business (advertising) companies will pay huge sums of money to know what you do, where you go, what you view, what prescriptions you take, etc... This information is very valuable. What is more disturbing than marketers trading in the currency of our information, is the fact the state where I live (Tennessee) also sells your information. Privacy simply does not exist. Even if you are completely off the grid, there are crumbs you will leave behind and they will track them.

 

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1 hour ago, bostonangler said:

 

We live in the information age. In my business (advertising) companies will pay huge sums of money to know what you do, where you go, what you view, what prescriptions you take, etc... This information is very valuable. What is more disturbing than marketers trading in the currency of our information, is the fact the state where I live (Tennessee) also sells your information. Privacy simply does not exist. Even if you are completely off the grid, there are crumbs you will leave behind and they will track them.

 

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We are in the midst of a transition from the information age to a cognitive era. The difference between the two is that the information age was all about the collection of the data and the progress towards the mass storage of large volume of data, the speed in which that data is collected, and basically the 5 V's of big data (volume veracity variety velocity and value) and the cognitive era will be about the efficient use of such data to make actionable decisions based off the processed raw data. While the transition is leaning more towards the former than the latter, we are in a transition, nonetheless. The early signs of this transition is AI and machine learning, in its infancy, is beginning to take hold not in the upper echelons of the IT industry and academia but it is becoming more mainstreamed for the everyday use. It is not uncommon for people to confuse the Information Age with the use of the data collected. While the purpose of collection of data is to use said data, current usage of data in ineffective as there is way too much information for the human mind to comprehend and cipher to reveal patterns in near real time. Thus the cognitive age is about how to overcome this gap of deciphering the patterns in the data to make near real-time decisions which will require the aid of cpu processing power. The cognitive era will work through machine learning and AI issues such as what FB is facing in their algorithms. The cliche "a computer is not smarter than a human it just processes what it's been programmed to do by humans much faster" will actually go by the wayside as we move out of the cognitive era into the next stage in the evolution of computer processing. 

 

One of the side effects of the cognitive  era will be the further empowerment of front-line workers to make day-to-day strategy and innovation; leaving macro-strategy (long-term) to c-level executives, The main obstacle at this point is how c-level executives are reluctant to give up the micro-strategy of the corporation to the front-line employees mainly due to trust issues of the worker by the executives. Your knowledge workers are also a hindrance as well because of information sharing. As I have personally experienced in the IT world, people are afraid to share their knowledge as they see this as an existential threat to their current position. The cliche knowledge is power and is the main reason why there is a reluctance of sharing that information. This affects the entire company because departments become siloed with their information when that information shared across the company could actually benefit all divisions thus cutting costs and improving manufacturing time or services. 

 

Right now, the biggest hindrance to the transition (translated to change) from the information age to the cognitive era is not the technology itself but the traditional business model in the value creation stream. When faced with this change there is a positive outcome that is more of a side effect to more efficient decision-making strategies that is employee loyalty then returns tenfold. One of the biggest problems in any industry is the fact the worker feels that there is no loyalty from the employer thus why should an employee return loyalty back to the company. Empowering the front-line employee or department level empowerment has shown that this loyalty returns tenfold because the employee feels emboldened by the fact that now what they do in their position actually matters. Where when the loyalty was low to non-existant the employee felt that what they did was undervalued by the organization. 

 

I could go on about this for days. However, until executives learn to trust, not blindly, employees again by relinquishing the day-to-day decision making and concentrate on long-term growth and strategy, the transition to a full cognitive era, the use of the data collected and stored to make actionable decisions in near real-time, will always be on the horizon.

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3 minutes ago, Theseus said:

We are in the midst of a transition from the information age to a cognitive era.

 

I didn't quote your whole statement, but I agree whole heartedly. Collecting data will never stop and the ability to increase that knowledge will grow, but how to use it to it's fullest potential is the issue. Humans do not have the ability to cypher through it, but AI does and will continue to become more proficient. We are at the beginning of another step in the evolution of mankind. JMHO

 

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In a perfect world all this may work.

Problem with this is that the PTB will control this information or have unfettered

access and will use it to shape and steer the people in a direction that suits them.

Much like the way the MSM is used today. 

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1 minute ago, nstoolman1 said:

In a perfect world all this may work.

Problem with this is that the PTB will control this information or have unfettered

access and will use it to shape and steer the people in a direction that suits them.

Much like the way the MSM is used today. 

This already exists today and today's world is far from perfect. A company you can look up is a dialysis company called DaVita. At the turn of the century, they went from an almost bankrupt state to now being on the Forbes Fortune 500 list. I forget what their ranking is. Their model is to empower the front-line healthcare worker and a building empowerment with a regional manager above many buildings in a geographic area. DaVita is not alone. There is a healthcare senior caring business model and organization in which the team is empowered and together the team makes decisions from care plans to budgetary concerns. In both cases, retention is extended and employees are more accountable and take responsibility for their work and the results they achieve. There is a tomato processing plant that follows this model as well. This world is far from perfect yet these companies and others have been able to capitalize on empowering their workers, today and tomorrow and in the future. A lot of people only think of this model as Silicone Valley and IT type of stuff. Nope. None of the companies I mentioned have anything to do remotely with SV or with IT. They might use and implement IT in their workplace but their main function and business objectives have absolutely little to nothing to do with IT and everything to do with Business Intelligence. Pessimism is rampant when it comes to change as humans are adverse to making it so. 

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