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Facebook has released a report indicating that some seventy four
different countries
contacted the social networking site for information
up personal information on some of its users so according to the report
government agents from seventy four different countries sought information
on about 30
eighth the house in Facebook users or first half of 2013
okay and they did admit that about half of those requests
came from the US government which shouldn't be surprising to you
whatsoever
what I find fascinating about this is the US government actually bands
a social networking sites from disclosing
the exact number I've request that they've made
I'm however Facebook did release a ranger figures so people will be aware
what's really going on behind the scenes
at now facebook says that they turned overheard some debt data in response to
60 percent
those requests and they did also released a statement indicating that
they fight many of those requests pushing back
when we fly I find legal deficiencies and narrowing the scope
overly broad and vague requests when we are required to comply with the
particular request we frequently share
only basic user information such as name yeah everybody is acting like this is
bad news I actually considering the past few months finest be extremely good news
because the government is going to Facebook asking for the information
thank God they can just get it themselves automatically I thought they
had that power I'm sure they're working on that
I'm sure but for now at least Facebook's between us and the government well
remember we
we had previously done a story about how a lot of the social networking sites and
search engines like Google for instance
can charge the government up her request so they're making money off this and the
government is using taxpayer dollars
to pay the social networking sites and the search engines and
you know I these telephone companies in order to obtain that information
on us so it's a vicious cycle and it's it's obviously not good
yeah I mean this is the thing that people don't understand about all the
social media stuff we are the product key witnesses KR
the product that is the true that you know I product that's the reason they're
giving it to you for free cuz then you give them
every little bit about yourself I actually got off facebook I have no
personal
page on there I befriended page where are the person I
that was gonna sound horrible no matter how to cut but the because I only put
out one picture a day or a link to make sure something like that I've removed
the personal party that
and I put a lot of stuff out there openly I on my show and on Twitter and
all that
but I've got a feeling I got a little bit of control love my
information back I don't know at but they probably have my old
page there somewhere and I'm sure something good there somewhere at the
base of a deleted it no excuse me out about all this as it's just this this
creeping surveillance you know we are you know that this is happening so this
is more just a confirmation
but I'm still creeped out by this this act this surveillance that we have going
on throughout
all love our electronic lives that we have an
and it just you know when you have the ability to track all the grass roots on
all the activists people
because I don't think that you're gonna find there's a lot of folks who are
saying i dunno the Mafia for example
operating on Facebook and talking about where they're gonna meet up and do the
next prime
they're gonna do if they're following your regular balls I believe that they
are the most used mostly using this to target
and to follow a regular folks who might be like say environmental activists
who are gathering to make demonstrations against corporations the Keystone XL
pipeline any one of those things that they're there
using that against against order people to protect corporations make
yeah I amid make one last point is probably a pretty depressing thought
but wouldn't it be amazing if Facebook users were is angry about Facebook
selling your personal information to governments about
around the world as they were whenever Facebook redesigns other feed look so
what font they use for messages or something it worked up about that but
not so much about the invasion of privacy but that feed
so confusing I changed
ok got