Sunday, March 25, 2018

56 65 263 | Facebook logs texts and calls, users find as they delete accounts, March 25, 2018


As users continue to delete their Facebook accounts in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a number are discovering that the social network holds far more data about them than they expected, including complete logs of incoming and outgoing calls and SMS messages.

The #deletefacebook movement took off after the revelations that Facebook had shared with a Cambridge psychologist the personal information of 50 million users, without their explicit consent, which later ended up in the hands of the election consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

263 is the 56th prime number

The header: ' Facebook logs texts and calls, users find as they delete accounts' sums to 605 in the English Ordinal cipher.
605 is like 65 when you drop the 0 since, the zero carries no value.

Facebook makes it hard for users to delete their accounts, instead pushing them towards “deactivation”, which leaves all personal data on the company’s servers. When users ask to permanently delete their accounts, the company suggests: “You may want to download a copy of your info from Facebook.” It is this data dump that reveals the extent of Facebook’s data harvesting – surprising even for a company known to gather huge quantities of personal information.

Many other users reported unease at the data they had discovered being logged, including the contacts in their address books, their calendars, and their friends’ birthdays.

Totally creepy and yet, people will still rationalize to themselves that it's okay to use, maybe due to their family members, friends, work etc. use the government program, Facebook, (or Instagram or Snapchat or WhatsApp for that matter).

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