[LINK] Facebook demise???

Stephen Wilson swilson at lockstep.com.au
Fri Dec 30 11:25:10 AEDT 2011



On 30/12/2011 9:29 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> 
http://techland.time.com/2011/12/05/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-facebook/?iid=tl-article-editpicks
>
>  A counter-intuitive view of why Facebook may not be the darling for
>  much longer. Reason: boredom and overload. In other words, the gloss
>  is off.

There's disenchantment with FB, but we should expect outright rebellion 
too.  On top of the evident boredom (or should I say, simmering beneath 
it) is the growing awareness of how ruthless Facebook is in pirating its 
members' Personal Information.

Facebook exists to make money from the data and insights it has about 
its members' lives.  Every now and then they regret their way out of a 
privacy scandal, and they fiddle with their privacy settings.  But all 
the while they build ever richer profiles.

The latest "innovation" is Facial Recognition which affords them X-Ray 
vision into what everyone is doing, when, where and with whom.  And the 
ultimate insult? Facebook crowdsources the calibration of their 
biometric algorithms to members, who meekly believe that tagging photols 
is cool.

It's time that Facebook members awoke to this exploitation.  Mark 
Zuckerberg has cunningly amassed a multi billion dollar fortune on the 
back of Personal Information collected with scarcely any acknowledgement 
of its depth and breadth in space and time.  There is a colossal 
misunderstanding -- aided and abetted by his occasional mea culpas -- 
that the main privacy risk is inhibition, when in fact it is that 
Zuckerberg reserves the right to do anything he pleases with the 
encyclopedic information he has about a big slice of the world's 
population.

Why on earth do people stand for it?  If Governments did what Facebook 
does, there would be riots.



Steve Wilson


Lockstep

http://lockstep.com.au
Lockstep Consulting provides independent specialist advice and analysis
on digital identity and privacy.Lockstep Technologies develops unique
new smart ID solutions that enhance privacy and prevent identity theft.





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