{"id":99,"date":"2018-03-22T13:47:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T13:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/concrescence.org.uk\/?p=99"},"modified":"2018-03-22T13:47:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T13:47:22","slug":"deletefacebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/concrescence\/deletefacebook\/","title":{"rendered":"#deleteFacebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sense of violation is almost palpable.\u00a0 What we have suspected \u2013 what some of us have warned of<\/a> \u2013 for many years, is now transparently true, and on the pages of newspapers around the world<\/a>: Facebook has not just been using us, it has been abusing us.\u00a0 As I said in 2011, we have surrendered \u2018our personal data and the conduct of our friendships and (online) social ties to their marketplace\u2019 and they have made their money off our backs.<\/p>\n

The Cambridge Analytica scandal, broken by The Guardian following the extraordinary investigative journalism of Carole Cadwalladr<\/a>, is opening up a can of worms for Mark Zuckerberg, who, after several days of complete silence, has finally, tersely, admitted that Facebook has been guilty of a \u2018breach of trust<\/a>\u2019 – though it is clearly a ‘scandal of Facebook’s own making<\/a>.’<\/p>\n

Gathering momentum \u2013 though there is no way of telling yet how successful it will be \u2013 is a movement to #deleteFacebook<\/a>.\u00a0 With the aid of a Chrome browser extension<\/a>, all the posts of the past years can be deleted from one\u2019s account, (although the script takes a few hours to run).\u00a0 Thus, although the profiling already achieved on the data already given to Facebook cannot be undone, that data can be withdrawn so that it can no longer be used, and one\u2019s account no longer logged into, no longer used, eventually (after their 90day delay) completely deleted<\/a>.\u00a0 There are plenty of other means of sharing online – with our privacy intact.\u00a0 Facebook has breached our trust, and does not deserve our data any more \u2013 if it ever did.<\/p>\n

In a matter of a week or two, the four-week diary studies for this project will begin, and one question we will be asking our participants is simply this: “How do you feel about the way Facebook tricked you into feeling safe about giving up all your data to it? How do you feel about how they then used it underhandedly to make money out of you, and to allow others to use your data for electoral manipulation? How do you feel about how they have handled the fallout from these revelations? Have you deleted your Facebook posts, or your account?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sense of violation is almost palpable.\u00a0 What we have suspected \u2013 what some of us have warned of \u2013 for many years, is now…<\/p>\n

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