Facebook privacy hoaxes prey on your fears -- again
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Facebook is warning users not to fall for a recent resurgence in privacy hoxes.
Facebook has always been ripe for privacy hoaxes, and it appears it's harvest time again on the social-networking giant.Users of the world's largest social network were inundated Monday with messages on their news feeds reposted by friends that warn if they don't act fast, Facebook will be allowed to infringe on their privacy.
]The hoaxes play on real concerns consumers have about how their personal information might be used by Internet giants such as Facebook, Google and Netflix, among others, who have in the past been accused of violating their users' privacy.
One of the hoaxes, which resurfaces every couple of years, warns users to post what sounds like a legally binding statement to their feeds that prohibits Facebook from using their photos, content or personal information without users' permission.
The now-familiar message begins like this:
As of September 28th , 2015 at 10:50p.m. Eastern standard time, I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, or posts, both past and future. By this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents.
The hoax promises to exempt those who repost the legal-sounding statement from Facebook's Data Use Policy, a document that governs how Facebook may use its members' data that they agree to when they sign up to use the service. However, of course, once approved, the contract cannot be altered by users.Source: http://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-privacy-hoaxes-play-on-users-fears-again/
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People are just dumb should call them sheepole.
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Just saw someone in our community hit by the FB privacy hoax this morning before coming over here to check the latest. It hits a lot of IT people too.
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That particular one has been going around for years.
Sheeple are for to quick to hit the panic button. Research it before passing OMGWTFBBQHAX! things on. -
smh.
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@nadnerB said:
That particular one has been going around for years.
Sheeple are for to quick to hit the panic button. Research it before passing OMGWTFBBQHAX! things on.Yes, I thought that it was weird to see a famous hoax about privacy repeated again. Hard to believe that people would still think that it is something valid. It's pretty obviously not valid based on common sense, basic law, Facebook's own privacy rules, the terms of service and the broad amount of knowledge of the issue directly (it's one of those common "I cant believe that people do this" things that people talk about all of the time when referring to hoaxes.)
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@scottalanmiller when common sense is no longer taught commonly, can it still be called common sense?
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@nadnerB said:
@scottalanmiller when common sense is no longer taught commonly, can it still be called common sense?
Can you teach common sense? Knowledge can be taught, sense has to be there.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@nadnerB said:
@scottalanmiller when common sense is no longer taught commonly, can it still be called common sense?
Can you teach common sense? Knowledge can be taught, sense has to be there.
It's picked up by kids observing their parents and yes, other bits are taught (like looking both ways before crossing the street).
You have to be teachable for it to sink in. A lot of people are not teachable.
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I think common sense tells you to look both ways without needing to be taught. Learning by rote teaches you to do things without needed to have the sense to do it anyway. You can teach people to appear to have common sense in repeatable scenarios but only sense is going to help you in a new scenario.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I think common sense tells you to look both ways without needing to be taught. Learning by rote teaches you to do things without needed to have the sense to do it anyway. You can teach people to appear to have common sense in repeatable scenarios but only sense is going to help you in a new scenario.
A child does not just know to look both ways. they have to be taught. A child with sense learns to understand why they were taught.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I think common sense tells you to look both ways without needing to be taught. Learning by rote teaches you to do things without needed to have the sense to do it anyway. You can teach people to appear to have common sense in repeatable scenarios but only sense is going to help you in a new scenario.
A child does not just know to look both ways. they have to be taught. A child with sense learns to understand why they were taught.
Agreed, but an adult with common sense that knows what a road is but has never been taught would, we would assume, decide to look both ways without needing to be taught. Roads must be taught because we can't trust that common sense exists as it is too common an issue and too deadly a result and we need children to be able to do it before they have the sense to understand the risks and we need them to do it before they have the knowledge with which to have applied common sense. Common sense needs knowledge to work from, much like a CPU is only useful if there is data in memory to process.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Agreed, but an adult with common sense that knows what a road is but has never been taught would, we would assume, decide to look both ways without needing to be taught. Roads must be taught because we can't trust that common sense exists as it is too common an issue and too deadly a result and we need children to be able to do it before they have the sense to understand the risks and we need them to do it before they have the knowledge with which to have applied common sense. Common sense needs knowledge to work from, much like a CPU is only useful if there is data in memory to process.
Wait, are you agreeing while looking like you're disagreeing or just disagreeing?
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Agreeing about children needing to be taught but explaining why that is different than a common sense discussion because they don't have the tools yet to use common sense in that scenario by the time that they are taught what common sense alone could tell them later.
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@scottalanmiller Righto
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@scottalanmiller This is why you start em young. I tell my kid not to touch the pot because it is hot. He knows what hot is. If he touches the pot anyway, lesson reinforced. He's only 4, but I explain to him why I don't want him to do something... If it won't kill him or seroiusly injure him, I let him do it anyway. Then he learns to check and see if what he wants to do will hurt him or not before diving in head first, so to speak.
