Facebook Has No Idea Where Your Data Is and What They Do With It?!

Facebook's about 18 years old; coming on 20, Facebook has a lot of data. How much stuff have you given Facebook? Did you fall victim to that? Hey, upload your contacts. We'll find your friends. They don't know where your data is.

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[00:00:15] This whole thing with Facebook has exploded here lately.

[00:00:20] There is an article that had appeared on a line from our friends over at, I think it was, yeah. Let me see here. Yeah. Yeah. Motherboard. I was right. And motherboards reporting that Facebook doesn't know what it does with your data. So it goes, no, there's always a lot of rumors about different companies, particularly when they're a big company, and the news headlines are grabbing your attention. Indeed Facebook can be one of those companies.

[00:00:57] So where did motherboard get this opinion about Facebook? Just being completely clueless about your personal. The report was obtained from a leaked document. Yeah, exactly. So we find out a lot of stuff like that. I used to follow a website about companies going to go under, and they posted internal memos.

[00:01:23] It got sued out of existence, but there's no way that Facebook will be able to Sue this one out of existence because they are describing this as. Internally as a tsunami of privacy regulations all over the world. So Gores, if you're older, we used to call those tidal waves, but think of the implication of a tsunami coming in and just overwhelming everything.

[00:01:53] So Facebook, internally, their engineers are trying to figure out, okay. So how do we deal with it? People's personal data. It's not categorized in ways that regulators want to control it. Now there's a huge problem right there. You've got third-party data. You've got first-party data. You've got sensitive categories and data.

[00:02:16] They might know what religion you are and your persuasions in different ways. There are a lot of things they might know about you. How were they all categorized? Now we've got the European Union. With their general data protection regulation. The GDPR we talked about when it came into effect back in 2018, and I've helped a few companies to comply with that.

[00:02:41] That's not my specialty. My specialty is cybersecurity. But in article five this year, peon law mandates that personal data must be collected for specified explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner incompatible with those purposes. So what that means is that every piece of data, like where you are using Facebook or your religious orientation, Can only be collected in use for a specific purpose and not reused for another purpose.

[00:03:19] As an example here, that vice has given in past Facebook, took the phone number that users provided to protect their accounts with two-factor authentication and fed it to its people, feature, etc. Advertisers. Yeah. Interesting. Hey, so Gizmodo caught Facebook doing this with the help of academic researchers. Eventually, the company had to stop the practice because this goes back to the earlier days when Facebook would say, Hey, find out if your friends are on Facebook; upload your contacts.

[00:03:54] And most people. What did you know back then about trying to keep your data private and stop the proliferation of information about you online? Then nothing. I probably even uploaded it back then, thinking it'd be nice to see if I got friends here. We can start chatting, et cetera.

[00:04:12] According to legal experts that were interviewed by motherboard, who wrote this article and had a copy of the internal memo this year, PN regulation prohibits explicitly that kind of repurposing of your phone number of trying to put together the social graph and the leaked document shows that Facebook may not even have the ability to live.

[00:04:37] How it handles user's data. Now I was on several radio stations this week talking about this. And the example I gave looks at an average business from the time it started. How did Facebook start? Wildly scraping pictures of young women off of Harvard University. The main catalog, contact page, and then ask people what you think of this? This person, that person. And off they go, trying to rate them. Yeah. Yeah. All that matters to a woman, at least to Courtney, is to mark Zuckerberg girl; all that matters about a woman is how she looks. Do I think she's pretty or not?

[00:05:15] It's ridiculous what he was doing. Oh, that's Zuckerberg, who he is not a great guy anyway. So you go from stealing pictures of young ladies asking people to rate them, putting together some class information and stuff there at Harvard, and then moving on to other universities and opening it up even wider and broader.

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