“Facebook Knows Everything About You, And If You Don’t Believe Us Here’s Proof…” [#geekgirl]
[From this Huffington Post article] “A marketing stunt for the upcoming Ubisoft game “Watch Dogs” is inadvertently allowing users to check how well they’ve set up their Facebook privacy settings.
The campaign called “Digital Shadow”, which currently is available only in the US, requests permission to access a user’s account and then pulls information to build a comprehensive dossier of the user as if he or she were an assassin’s target. And we do mean comprehensive.”
Mass surveillance and the global website blackout [#geekgirl]
“Senator Scott Ludlam asks the Attorney General about mass surveillance on the day the Australian Greens joined the global website blackout to support the growing campaign against indiscriminate government surveillance. #thedaywefightback – the answer was something to behold.”