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Baitball Blogger

(46,733 posts)
Wed Dec 5, 2012, 09:39 AM Dec 2012

A suggestion to hamstring Facebook's Global Governance.

I just got an email from facebook telling me that my time is up and my life history now belongs to them. Or something to the effect.

Well, I have an idea to regain control. It came quite by accident. Someone was off enjoying themselves in a foreign country and wanted to share a view of a landscape. So, she tagged me in an empty picture, knowing that would be the sure way to reach me. Because of that, Facebook has me visiting a country I have never seen.

What would happen if we all began to tag each other into empty photos? Or for that matter, start mistagging ourselves to make it harder to turn our Facebook experiences into some data mining experiment?

Frankly, I like the idea of going around the world without ever having to go through an airport scanner.

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A suggestion to hamstring Facebook's Global Governance. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Dec 2012 OP
indecisive...n/t littlemissmartypants Dec 2012 #1
Vote for the existing policy. Chan790 Dec 2012 #2
They lost me with that last change. Baitball Blogger Dec 2012 #3
 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
2. Vote for the existing policy.
Wed Dec 5, 2012, 10:21 AM
Dec 2012

The current policy says they have to hold a vote of users to change certain aspects of how the site runs and what they can do with your information. That's the purpose of this vote, to remove that from policy.

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/surprise-facebook-users-vote-against-privacy-policy-changes-1C7412771

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