Thread: Join Facebook without a Mobile Number

If you use Facebook owned services on a mobile device, do not use their apps. Use 3rd party apps and you avoid the worst of it

You can also turn off some of the nefarious stuff if you use a chromium based browser which is usually on by default

this fear of being seen or known kind of astounds me....every site you enter can read your info , regardless of whether you give them permission to use cookies etc.

I think your drivers license has more information on you than face book ever has.

your drivers license can be hacked just as easy as your face book account

if you wish to set yourself up protectively , just call one of the many computer "geeks" who for a few dollars will sit down with you and go through everything on your computer including all that stuff you thought you had deleted , yes they'll see all the sites you've visited , install all the correct programs for you, totally delete all rubbish for you, place whatever protections you want and leave you with a clean computer performing like a rocket.

if you can't do this yourself, it is worth it.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I think your drivers license has more information on you than face book ever has.

Not correct.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

your drivers license can be hacked just as easy as your face book account

Not correct.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

if you wish to set yourself up protectively , just call one of the many computer "geeks" who for a few dollars will sit down with you and go through everything on your computer including all that stuff you thought you had deleted , yes they'll see all the sites you've visited , install all the correct programs for you, totally delete all rubbish for you, place whatever protections you want and leave you with a clean computer performing like a rocket.
if you can't do this yourself, it is worth it.

Yes, might be good advice for some users.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I think your drivers license has more information on you than face book ever has.

ROFLMAO. Facebook and other major 'big data' organisations probably know more about you than your wife does. Possibly even more than you can remember about yourself. The ability of computers to collect and AGGREGATE data is astounding AND increasing all the time.

Where does it end? What if Ancestry sells all the DNA tests it has done to someone - then your DNA profile would be linked with all your other details.
What if myhealth.gov.ai is hacked and that data were to be sold?

What is insurance companies buy that data and who you have a genetic predisposition to 'disease x' and have sought treatment for 'complajnt y'. No sorry we won't insure you OR sure here's your new astronomical premium...

And that's only the start of it. Wait til it's all done by AI.

Originally Posted by rick130

As Inc said, none of the above including a phone number (which they repeatedly request)
I wouldn't join of they requested all that ID stuff, either.
Bugger that.
Going by the ads I'm served they still think I'm in Canberra so I'm ok with that.

I'm constantly feeling like I want to delete the app but the couple of groups I'm in its handy.

Google are just as bad for a lack of privacy, even with location turned off on a phone packets of data are constantly sent back so a map of your movements are able to made if someone accessed it

got iyt in one. Tracking. And psycchology.. while YOU have an emotional attachment to various groups, your weakness will eventually make you crumble... which zuckkerberg well-knows. I'm told it only takes 17 'likes' for fb to correctly profile your personality.
It's just easier for them to track/monitor your movements if yor "permit" them. They also bait & check your responses to pop-ups etc. It only took them 3 or 4 months of minimal activity to work out I wasn't Frederick E Finkelstein...someone else was. Since I had VIOLATED the holiest of their T & C's.. telling them fibs. They they evicted me. for ever. Job Done !

zuckerberg has bought adjoining properties as part of his 'privacy', yet he demands pics of YOU... Facial Recognition? in what countries? for what end(s) ???

Or quite simply someone reported your account as a fake name.

Hi

Originally Posted by VladTepes

Where does it end? What if Ancestry sells all the DNA tests it has done to someone - then your DNA profile would be linked with all your other details.

In the US Ancestry and 23andme do provide DNA to Police and maybe other groups.

Originally Posted by VladTepes

What if myhealth.gov.ai is hacked and that data were to be sold?

myhealth.gov.au: Australian Digital Health agency admitted the network had been breached nine times since the system went live.
“In the 2016-17 financial year, there were six data breach notifications within My Health Record, and three notifications in the previous financial year.”

Hack of Melbourne medical records shows risk to health data - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
My Health Record system breached in compromising hack | Star 104.5 FM - Central Coast

Originally Posted by VladTepes

What is insurance companies buy that data and who you have a genetic predisposition to 'disease x' and have sought treatment for 'complaint y'. No sorry we won't insure you OR sure here's your new astronomical premium...

Insurance companies have a duty to shareholders to minimise their costs and obtaining such information would be valuable for them, and perhaps not illegal in some cases. If a claim is large then they may hire an investigator to trawl though any source of a persons health status and if it shows they knew this condition existed or prone to it they can refuse coverage. That trawling could be from

Mike

And over the years hundreds of medically sensitive documents have also turned up sitting insecure.
Wherever there is information there will be leaks of some kind.

Be aware, be sensible.