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How CIA Kills Countries


From: TRUTHBOXNEWS | Feb 24, 2012
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John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman, describes how the United States of America, through corporations and the CIA, wages economic wars against Third World countries in order to control their resources. Where economics fail, the CIA will come in creating dissent to overthrow a non-compliant government. Where that fails, assassination is employed. Only after all these options have failed will the U.S. military become involved.

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Dangers of Facebook, now a massive government spying machine

The Terrible Truth About Facebook

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Think you have any privacy when it comes to a social networking site? Think again. Just take a look at who has invested in the site and open your eyes.
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Zack says FB is losing ground with young people
who find the relationships built there are shallow
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Why I quit Facebook
A New York City high-school senior, 18, explains why he quit Facebook
By ZACH PROCHNIK
NY POST
Last Updated: 2:23 AM, February 12, 2012
Posted: 10:34 PM, February 11, 2012

It’s Saturday night, and I am at the house of a good friend. After the usual hours spent playing Xbox and watching “1000 Ways To Die,” I ask him if it would be OK if I used his computer. I want to check my Facebook, because I’d last checked it that morning — and who knows what I’d been missing since then? Best-case scenario: a notification from the girl who — despite the fact that our passion is unspoken — has posted on my wall claiming that she was checking my page and has suddenly realized her true feelings for me. Maybe on top of that a cool, funny kid sent me a friend request saying that I was “the man” and we should be homies for life. No big deal, I get that all the time.

I hit enter. My eyes immediately jump to the top left of the screen. The page loads and my heart drops. All I can see is blue. Blue, the color of 21st century social mediocrity. The color of people’s indifference towards you. I quickly realize the reality of my situation: The world does not revolve around me. My friends all have other friends. Every minute that I spend navigating the Facebook universe, I am shrinking.
But as I scroll down my home page, I realize that I’m not the only one desperate for attention. Every status and post seems to be saying “I’m here! Tell me that I’m somebody!” Hundreds of kids are selling their identities — like livestock at a market — for a couple of comments and “likes.”

As I scan my alleged friends’ profiles, I’m seized with feelings of jealousy and rejection. I want to say to them “I thought I was your friend! So who the are these 200 other guys commenting on your stuff?” As our circles get wider, our interactions become fewer.
I joined Facebook four years ago. and at first it was amazing. You’d friend someone, and you’d be linked to all their friends. In fact, the standard that classified a kid as your friend was quickly dropped. That girl your friend told you about was now your “friend”; that friend of your sibling was now your “friend.” You now shared everything with anyone whose name or face looked vaguely familiar.

This quickly wore me down. Being constantly informed that you make up just a small portion of another person’s life erodes the feeling that you are at all meaningful to them.
Adolescence, to begin with, is a time of awful social anxiety. Now a website exists that exacerbates your most irrational social fears to the point of paranoia. Instead of just a private hormonal case of nerves, this is a massive, corporate crowd-sourced paranoia that a huge economic sector is encouraging us to take part in.
On Facebook, I saw how I was taking time away from being with my real friends to feel bad about all the other people who were hardly even part of my life.

Leaving it was easier said than done, however. I couldn’t find where to deactivate my account. I had to look up “how to deactivate Facebook” on Google. After navigating multiple pages, I found a tiny link at the bottom of the security-settings page. After clicking the link, a page popped up with bright photos of my good friends and me. “Jake will miss you,” one caption read. “Jules will miss you,” and another saying “Aaron will miss you.” All of my friends were smiling at me and telling me they would miss me.

I was struck by the irony of this statement about how my different friends would miss me when I left. When you’re an adolescent, what Facebook is really all about is creating a sense of distance between you and your friends, not about strengthening the relationships. Distance because it makes you realize that you’re both lost in a crowd. Worse still, this website that profits off the data it collects about me by selling it to advertising companies is now trying to hold onto me by enlisting my friends to seduce me into staying.

Why are my friends going to miss me? My friend Raymond is still sitting next to me playing video games. I’m still talking to people in the halls at school. Maybe next time someone takes a cool picture, they’ll call me up to hang out and stare at a screen side-by-side, which is what real friends do.

I’m not the only one who is deactivating my Facebook account. I’ve had other friends tell me that they’re sick and tired of going on Facebook everyday hoping to connect, but ending up feeling only more disconnected. Lost in the hype of the company’s stock-market debut this year is that while Facebook is ubiquitous, it may also be a fad.

Before I went off Facebook, my friend made a status update saying,“Deleting your Facebook is like running away from home. You do it for attention but you’ll be back one day.” But I’m not doing it for attention. I’m doing it so I won’t go there when I’m hungry for attention, only to end up feeling more alone.

Zach Prochnik attends a Manhattan public high school.

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Here we go again, another case of personal privacy being breached

Carrier IQ: Your phone's secret recording device
By David Goldman @CNNMoneyTech December 1, 2011: 6:28 PM ET

CNN

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Carrier IQ is a piece of software installed on millions of mobile phones that logs everything their users do, from what websites they browse to what their text messages say.

No, it's not part of some great Orwellian plot; it's a diagnostic tool that carriers say plays a crucial role in helping them assess and troubleshoot their networks. But the recording app, which flew under the radar for years until security researchers drew attention to it recently, is setting off red-alert privacy and security alarms.

...Reports about Carrier IQ's hair-raisingly detailed tracking capabilities began swirling in the tech press several months ago and gained steam after Android developer Trevor Eckhart posted an analysis of the software's data logs.

But on Monday, Eckhart followed up with a 17-minute YouTube video showing how the software secretly runs on his HTC EVO 3D Android phone and logs every key press, every text, and the full URL of every website he visits. It recorded that data even from websites that use security encryption designed to prevent that kind of tracking.

Then word began spreading about just how ubiquitous Carrier IQ's software is. It's on an estimated 150 million mobile devices...

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Finally a short victory against Facebook

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Facebook Settles U.S. Regulator’s Complaints Over Violations of Privacy
By Sara Forden and Jeff Bliss - Nov 29, 2011 3:56 PM ET

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Facebook Inc., the world’s biggest social networking site, agreed to settle complaints by the Federal Trade Commission that it failed to protect users’ privacy or disclose how their data could be used.

The proposed 20-year agreement would require Palo Alto, California-based Facebook to get clear consent from users before sharing material posted under earlier, more restrictive terms, the FTC said today in a statement. It would also compel independent reviews of Facebook’s privacy practices...The settlement “will protect consumer choices and ensure they have full and truthful information about their data.”

...In a blog posting, Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said the company should have been more vigilant in protecting users’ privacy.

“I’m the first to admit that we’ve made a bunch of mistakes,” he said.

...Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center...said today’s settlement “is a sweeping order that will prevent Facebook from disregarding the privacy interests of its users in the future.”

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The Facebook secret service

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November 20, 2011, Jon Stock

Do you know it’s finally a book you have to face!

It started off as an innocent university paper. Austrian law student Max Schrems, 24, thought it would be interesting to find out how much information Facebook had stored about him over the past three years. Facebook’s European headquarters is in Ireland and, under European privacy laws, which are stricter than in the US, the company was obliged to disclose the data. Schrems was surprised to receive a CD containing 1,222 pdf files.

He was alarmed to discover that information he had removed from his profile, including deleted messages, had been retained by the social networking site.

“ If the post office opened, scanned and analysed every letter that came through and never deleted it, everyone would freak out,” says Schrems. “ That is what Facebook is doing with our messages.

I have read their privacy policy but, after a year investigating, I still have no clear idea of what they use this data for.” Schrems set up an online campaign group called Europe versus Facebook.

To date, it has lodged 22 complaints with Ireland’s data protection commissioner.

All Facebook users outside the US and Canada— about 600 million people, including users in India— have a contract with Facebook Ireland Ltd.

Schrems is concerned that the data will turn into “ life archives”. These, he claims, could fall into the hands of advertisers or intelligence services. I have had a look at the complaints and Schrems is definitely on to something.

I don’t believe that Facebook has any hidden, malicious agenda. “ The assertion that Facebook is doing some sort of nefarious profiling is wrong,” Facebook spokesperson Andrew Noyes recently told Fox News.

I do think we have no idea how much personal information we are agreeing to share online and how it might potentially be used. Schrems’s allegations are based on the assumption that Facebook is not only hosting data, but also processing it without our control. It also stores all deleted posts, photo tags and pokes.

More seriously, Schrems alleges ( in complaint no. 2) that Facebook is compiling “ shadow profiles” of people who have not even joined the site. They keep a record of names that have been searched for on Facebook. When someone then joins up, they are alerted to anyone who has been searching for them. Facebook encourages users to hand over data about users and non- users, including email addresses, telephone numbers, addresses and work information. It asks us to synchronise our Facebook account with our email address book contacts.

“ Facebook Ireland is creating extensive profiles of non- users and it is also enriching existing user profiles,” claims Schrems. “ This means that Facebook Ireland is gathering excessive amounts of information about data subjects without notice or consent…. This information might be embarrassing or intimidating or constitute sensitive data such as political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs and sexual orientation.” Another complaint ( no. 17) concerns the “ like” button. Many web sites feature this “ social plugin” and you and I might think that Facebook only knows that we have visited the site if we choose to like it. But, as Schrems points out, Facebook starts gathering data the moment we land on the page, including date, time, URL and your computer’s IP address, browser and operation system. If you visit Facebook even as a non- user, a cookie is placed on your browser, allowing your internet activity to be tracked.

Facebook says it only keeps the data for 90 days and it is used solely for security purposes, but it is still worrying.

Facebook claims it is committed to transparency and it is not alone in trying to gather information about its customers. There is also much that the savvy user can do ( such as turning off cookies). My fear is that the majority of users outside the US are unaware of the extent that our internet activities are being tracked and recorded. Ireland’s data protection commissioner has just finished its audit of Facebook and its findings will be eagerly awaited.

- The Week

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Facebook tracks your every move, even after logging out

Ethan A. Huff

Natural News

Wed., Sept., 28 2011

(NaturalNews) The social media empire Facebook has unveiled some new "features" on its platform in recent days that many allege are a total and compete privacy-breaching nightmare. But one hidden feature, discovered by Nik Cubrilovic, an Australian entrepreneur and writer, that few people are aware of is the fact that Facebook now monitors your online activity, even when you are not logged in to the service.

With each new change Facebook makes, users' privacy becomes a little less ... nonexistent, if you will. The most recent "News Feed" modifications, for example, display everything you say and do on the site to all of your "friends," and even to the public. And now, even after logging out of Facebook, permanent "cookies" track all your movements on websites that contain Facebook buttons or widgets.

"Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit," Cubrilovic wrote on a recent blog posting. "The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions" (http://nikcub-static.appspot.com/lo...).

But how many Facebook users will actually know to do this? The site has never announced to its users that it is even tracking them in the first place, let alone given them any instructions on how to "opt-out" of this egregious invasion of privacy.

Facebook, of course, has become infamous for simply changing its site setup, including privacy settings, and leaving it up to users to figure out how to contain their breached information after the fact. It has switched from an "opt-in" approach, where users used to be given the option to "upgrade" to new features, to a much more complicated "opt-out" approach, where Facebook makes drastic changes and leaves it up to users to somehow figure out how to change things back to the way they were (if such an option is even still possible).

"While initially opt-in, the default then seems to be expose everything," says David Vaile, executive director of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, concerning Facebook's "breathtaking and audacious grab for whole life data."

"Facebook, once again, are (sic) doing things that are beyond most users' capacity to understand while reducing their privacy ... the default setting for any site should be 'reveal nothing about me unless I make a specific choice otherwise.'"

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Facebook a Spying Machine? So says Julian Assange

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has recently come out saying the popular social-media network Facebook is a huge treasure trove of info that is essentially a spying machine and tool for the U.S. government. I mean come on, its one of the most global comprehensive database on personal information just ripe for the picking by major government agencies, especially in the intelligence community. It shouldn`t be a surprise to think the intelligence community doesn`t already have access to facebook with or without facebook directly knowing. With technology becoming more and more electronic and information being compartmentalized, it is now becoming more accessible to people who are able to access it.

Facebook being one of the most or possibly the greatest social-media service currently till another comes, does have it`s drawbacks. People just don`t realize that with a huge treasure trove of personal info just out there in web space, people in the intelligence would would want immediate access to it to track people, profile them, create bio`s on them...and Julian Assange would know. If the government was truthful to the American people then WikiLeaks wouldn`t have to exist to expose the secrets they hide from us. Nothing is transparent and our beloved President Obama who campaigned and championed the fact of government transparency has obviously failed on that task, as well as others too like closing down Guantanamo Bay and the resolution to the 2 current wars!

Read the Dailynews article (5/2/11): WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange rails against Facebook, says its spying tool for U.S. government

View also: RT News America interview with CNet correspondent Declean McCullagh concerning Assange`s facebook 'spying machine' claim (5/4/11). In an exclusive interview with RT, Wikileaks founder Jullian Assange recently called Facebook the "most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented." According to Assange, Facebook exists as "the world's most comprehensive database about people...all sitting within the United States." Further, US intelligence has an interface to access that data at any time, he says. Is he right? CNet correspondent Declean McCullagh thinks he probably is, though no evidence has so far been able to support his argument. If he is right, who will be able to access this information and under what conditions? - RT America