[Chester LUG] facebook

[Les Pritchard]

Yes, it was an interesting 'experiment' but the ethical side is really
questionable. I'm sure their view is that it is their network and you agree
to this stuff in the T & C. Facebook certainly does decide what you see,
but you are able to change that if you 'train' your account. In terms of
stopping Facebook from watching you, well on Facebook you're obviously
screwed! To avoid tracking on other sites you'd need to remove all the
cookies so the like buttons couldn't track your visits. You could run you
browser in the private mode and restart it after using Facebook, which
would reduce the tracking ability. Alternatively, use one browser to access
Facebook and then another for every other site. This would mean Facebook
could only see what they already know.

There are plenty of other steps you can take, but those are the simple ones
that spring to mind.

On 20 April 2015 at 15:48, Robin Hemuss <robin592 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello people,
>
> I don't know if this is old news for everyone else. The article's a few
> months
> old, but still interesting I think.
>
>
> http://www.nature.com/news/misjudgements-will-drive-social-trials-underground-1.15553?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews
>
> It seems that facebook spent some time feeding people disproportionately
> good/bad news in their updates, and monitored if they behaved happy/sad as
> a
> result. Apparently this is ethical because it's pretty much what they
> normally do anyway, and also it's not that much different from regular
> advertising. Sounds a bit iffy to me though.
>
> I just wondered what the general opinion over this kind of stuff is. How
> can
> you keep your facebook activity secret from facebook?
>
> Cheers,
> Robin
>
>
>
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