Privacy

Eh che stufita!

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

Dear Facebook,

I’ve been accessing your social service using Frost an free-as-in-freedom Android app.

Why? Because I don’t trust you. You already far too much about me. And knowing your ways of handling and selling the data you collect I’ve decided to confine you as much as possible and this means that I will never install your proprietary client to access your services.

I want to keep you confined into softwares that I can trust, such as the Firefox web browser or the Frost client.

But you keep thinking that my usage of Frost is “suspicious” and keep locking me out. I’m fed up.

Facebook’s security team tracks posts, location for ‘BOLO’ threat list

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

Facebook security monitors users who have made aggressive comments, as well as former employees, through a “be on lookout” or “BOLO” list. It can use its apps and web sites to track the location of these people as it deems necessary.

Source: Facebook’s security team tracks posts, location for ‘BOLO’ threat list

I never used FaceBook (Android) app and I will never use it, until they release its sources under a license compatible to AGPv3.

It may not be enough thought, it may be necessary to pass through The Onion Router or proxies.

A damning internal Facebook document

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning internal Facebook documents that had been sealed by a US court

Source: British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning internal Facebook documents that had been sealed by a US court / Boing Boing

Expecially:

…they show Facebookers at the highest level — up to CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg — conspiring to trick Android users about how much data was being gathered by an update to the Facebook app

So I was doing good sticking to theire mobile website and refusing to install their apps, even the “lite” one.