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Facebook is using my in game information.

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Qwerty Ernaga
Doomheim
#61 - 2017-01-18 13:47:36 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rNgCnY1lPg

Hopefully external links are not punishable by death.Shocked Couldn´t help myself.
Kenneth Endashi
Kor-Azor Slave Holdings
#62 - 2017-01-19 00:21:59 UTC
ISD Max Trix wrote:
Your internet data is constantly being tracked and mined by Internet advertiser, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Various 3 letter agencys. You can try to sterilize yourself from them through various optout programs and data destroyers (sites that were made to throw off the trackers by pumping false info into it) but you will have to give up Facebook, google, yahoo etc and religiously use a TOR browser along with a vpn. Even then it just limits the tracking not eliminate it.


There are changes on the horizon in the USA (which are already in full effect elsewhere) that are going to necessitate the use of a VPN in the future.

In my opinion, even if you don't plan to use them, it is a good practice to at least become familiar with these tools now, while we are still in the relatively early days of Big Data, because the internet plays such an important role in our lives and society. Let people call you a conspiracy nut. Just because they don't see the importance of protecting your personal data, doesn't mean it is not important. Most people aren't even aware of it, nor do they want to be.

OP is conscientious. I like that about OP. I like this discussion.

If anyone has questions about the tools mentioned above, send me an Eve mail and I'll happily point you in the right direction!
Chopper Rollins
Brave Newbies Inc.
Brave Collective
#63 - 2017-01-19 01:36:20 UTC
Swamp Drain wrote:
Just stop using social media. I have never used social media and it is the most rewarding feeling in the world when your surrounded by people and you can't help but notice how frantically everyone is flipping through their phones not paying attention to the world around them. (It's especially funny when people walk across busy streets with their heads glued to their phones)

I pride myself in living in reality and I have no sympathy for people who regret throwing their personal lives out on the internet for the whole world to see.

...


People are social animals. Their needs for recognition, validation, attention and appreciation are valid and serve a social function. The charm of lights and sound at the push of a button is infantile and therefore very strong.
The internet has made those needs into levers for commercialisation of communication.
Being amused and unsympathetic is pompous and unhelpful, isn't it?




Goggles. Making me look good. Making you look good.
Princess Adhara
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#64 - 2017-01-19 03:17:15 UTC
Shut up and just join the great link
Expendable Unit
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#65 - 2017-01-19 10:00:03 UTC
thatonepersone wrote:
I was on facebook and one of the people i play with in game is on my recommended friends list. We have never communicated out side of eve, we have no mutual friends and in team speak we have only used his first name. The only reason i know its him for sure is because he has a picture uploaded in team speak.

Anybody else see a problem with this?


Haha, dude??!!! Read the Assbook EULA next time....Also, if you ever find yourself dressed as a woman on a big poster hung on a skyscraper that states "Crossdressers lives matter", don't go asking questions as why that is?! Try and read EULAS, especially in today's world.
Radical Posture
The Outsiders.
#66 - 2017-01-19 14:15:16 UTC
In before all our avatars are replaced by our Facebook profiles.
Hakawai
State War Academy
Caldari State
#67 - 2017-01-20 06:59:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Hakawai
Kenneth Endashi wrote:
There are changes on the horizon in the USA (which are already in full effect elsewhere) that are going to necessitate the use of a VPN in the future.
[...]
... while we are still in the relatively early days of Big Data, because the internet plays such an important role in our lives and society.
[...]

"Big Data" already works well enough to track and categorize everyone who uses the Internet. Everyone.

There are limits to the level of detail that can be saved (for example it's not currently practical to save a copy of every graphic everyone looks at), but as you say in your post - the tech gets better all the time. It's already well past any "reasonable" level of tracking of non-criminal individuals. And there's no practical way to wind it back.

BTW it's an illusion that consumer-grade VPNs (actually any consumer-grade encryption technology) are secure from Government-level surveillance.

There will probably never again be a combination of convenience and privacy available on public networks. Nor will it ever be possible to live a normal life and be truly anonymous on the public networks, no matter how hard you try.


A general comment based on some loose comments earlier:
Many components in network-capable consumer electronic devices have unique ids. Consumer software does not offer the possibility of hiding these unique ids from being queried and recorded. This includes multiple parts in your computers and phones, and also much of the gear that provides local wireless communication. A lot of the ISP and public network gear that private equipment connects to can provide quite accurate information about user location (both "home", at work, and when you're moving around using a mobile network).

Move, take *any* piece of equipment with a queriable unique id, and your new location will be identified and added to all the personal data already recorded. Similarly new phone - old number has no masking effect at all, nor does new number - old phone. Or new computer - old userid; or new computer/phone + old broadband connection device or old broadband supplier.

It's not practical for normal people to "hide" or "disappear" from this.

It takes a lot - and most people simply aren't prepared or able to ditch all of family, friends, job, every aspect of their online identities and activities, etc. Of course it can be done in special cases, but only a tiny minority can actually do it. And of course that minority will come to include all the really dangerous people in the world, along with the more "privileged".


In general, the horse has already bolted long ago, and we're standing in the open stable doorway, looking at our feet, debating whether the door is open or not.