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            Privacy? At GoogleMyFacePlusSpaceBook? Surely you jest!
                                        
> I was inspecting Facebook's network traffic today in Firefox Devtools, when
> I realized that any text I put into the status update box was sent to
> Facebook's servers, even if I did not click the post button. Ever curious,
> I Googled this behaviour and came across a study which reveals some very
> frightening information:
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> > Facebook calls these unposted thoughts "self-censorship," and insights
> > into how it collects these nonposts can be found in a recent paper
> > written by two Facebookers.
> > 
> 

Via Lobsters [1], “Facebook sending 'nonposts' to its servers and storing
unpublished thoughts [2]”

I wouldn't be surprised if all the sites in the
MyFaceGoogleBookPlusSpaceosphere aren't doing the same thing. And the thing
is, when I do a search on “experimenting on unwilling subjects” the results
all seem to be Na zis Nazis Nazis (With the CIA in a close second place. Go
figure.) [3] for some reason. Just approach FaceGoogleMyPlusSpaceBook that
everything posted, whether “private” or not, is going to be seen by
everybody. Because it is.

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/bkw8vw/facebook_sending_nonposts_to_its_servers_and
[2] http://blog.higg.im/2015/04/07/facebook-sending-nonposts-to-its-servers
[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=experimenting+on+unwilling+subjects

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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