Instagram prototypes handing your location history to Facebook

Eddy13r0 · 10-05-2018, 02:09 PM

Quote:Instagram has served as a life raft for Facebook’s brand this year amidst an onslaught of scandals including fake news, election interference, social media addiction, and most recently, a security breach that gave hackers the access tokens for 50 million users that could have let them take over their accounts

O.o

Nyx · 10-05-2018, 02:56 PM

The title of your thread has nothing to do with what you posted so that is kind of misleading and you also didn't cite a source for your quote. Regardless, Instagram is basically a save haven for Facebook so I wouldn't be surprised when controversy starts surrounding Instagram for some yet unknown privacy violations.

Nyx · 10-05-2018, 09:38 PM

Here's your own source by the way: https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/techandsc...ar-BBNXTc7

mothered · 10-06-2018, 05:21 AM

Hence one of many reasons I don't deal with social media.

Never have, never will.

arduinomeat · 10-09-2018, 09:16 PM

You may not have social media, but social media most probably have data on you. It has been revealed on the news a few years back that FB's "Like" was intrusive and was able to track you. All of these widgets gather data on your browsing, and other tricks probably exist to track everyone.

Jimbo39238 · 10-09-2018, 10:15 PM

Despite being on multiple social media platforms, I am irritated about hearing all this when it comes to light. I'd like to get off all the platforms I am on, but at the same time I don't want to.

mothered · 10-10-2018, 05:06 AM

(10-09-2018, 09:16 PM)arduinomeat Wrote: You may not have social media, but social media most probably have data on you. It has been revealed on the news a few years back that FB's "Like" was intrusive and was able to track you.

I remember reading a few articles on this.

That's why I have dedicated systems based on their usability. One for sensitive account logins, and absolutely no other form of navigation- log In, log out and shutdown. And others that have fingerprinting (browser, sensors, operating system, hardware, location etc) and tracking disabled & anonymized. Of course, I have not distributed any element of personal Information.

Cr3aTor · 10-10-2018, 10:55 AM

(10-10-2018, 05:06 AM)mothered Wrote:
(10-09-2018, 09:16 PM)arduinomeat Wrote: You may not have social media, but social media most probably have data on you. It has been revealed on the news a few years back that FB's "Like" was intrusive and was able to track you.

I remember reading a few articles on this.

That's why I have dedicated systems based on their usability. One for sensitive account logins, and absolutely no other form of navigation- log In, log out and shutdown. And others that have fingerprinting (browser, sensors, operating system, hardware, location etc) and tracking disabled & anonymized. Of course, I have not distributed any element of personal Information.

Wow this is actually a great habit for protecting your privacy. I got dedicated systems for security, basic browsing (the regular desktop) and one for getting rid of easily, but never thought about something like that.
Thanks for sharing this.

mothered · 10-10-2018, 11:11 AM

(10-10-2018, 10:55 AM)Cr3aTor Wrote:
(10-10-2018, 05:06 AM)mothered Wrote:
(10-09-2018, 09:16 PM)arduinomeat Wrote: You may not have social media, but social media most probably have data on you. It has been revealed on the news a few years back that FB's "Like" was intrusive and was able to track you.

I remember reading a few articles on this.

That's why I have dedicated systems based on their usability. One for sensitive account logins, and absolutely no other form of navigation- log In, log out and shutdown. And others that have fingerprinting (browser, sensors, operating system, hardware, location etc) and tracking disabled & anonymized. Of course, I have not distributed any element of personal Information.

Wow this is actually a great habit for protecting your privacy. I got dedicated systems for security, basic browsing (the regular desktop) and one for getting rid of easily, but never thought about something like that.
Thanks for sharing this.

You're welcome.

It's good to read you also have systems suited to the tasks they're dedicated to perform. In terms of not being Infected by keyloggers, RATs, malware etc, you boot off a Live CD/USB. I'm sure you're already aware of this.

Cr3aTor · 10-10-2018, 11:24 AM

(10-10-2018, 11:11 AM)mothered Wrote:
(10-10-2018, 10:55 AM)Cr3aTor Wrote:
(10-10-2018, 05:06 AM)mothered Wrote: I remember reading a few articles on this.

That's why I have dedicated systems based on their usability. One for sensitive account logins, and absolutely no other form of navigation- log In, log out and shutdown. And others that have fingerprinting (browser, sensors, operating system, hardware, location etc) and tracking disabled & anonymized. Of course, I have not distributed any element of personal Information.

Wow this is actually a great habit for protecting your privacy. I got dedicated systems for security, basic browsing (the regular desktop) and one for getting rid of easily, but never thought about something like that.
Thanks for sharing this.

You're welcome.

It's good to read you also have systems suited to the tasks they're dedicated to perform. In terms of not being Infected by keyloggers, RATs, malware etc, you boot off a Live CD/USB. I'm sure you're already aware of this.

Yup, in fact the "getting easy rid of" system is running almost only on a LIVE system. In terms of the other systems, I use the LIVE system only if I'm skeptical about some software.