Facebook sucks for sure but no way to put that genie back in the bottle. It is part of her routine and the way it is.



On a lighter note, this must be what Skip was referring to earlier
We're gonna be rich!!!



Bill would make internet providers pay you for selling your personal data



If someone secretly collects your personal information without your consent and sells it to marketing companies, you might as well get a cut, right?



After Congress elected to get rid of rules that would have banned Internet service providers like Comcast and AT&T from mining consumers' browsing data and selling it advertisers, Minnesota legislators stepped up to protect Internet privacy.
Both chambers of the legislature passed measures to preemptively prohibit that sort of thing being done to Minnesotans. It had strong popular support, and easily earned bipartisan votes.
However, this week Rep. Pat Garofalo (R-Farmington) stripped Internet privacy provisions out of the Omnibus Jobs and Energy bill, saying that he intended to blend it with another, unrelated bill that needed some alterations. He promised that it would eventually be added back in.
Democratic proponents of the original Internet privacy bill were wary. Sen. Ron Latz (DFL-St. Louis Park) and Rep. Paul Thissen (DFL-Minneapolis) held a press conference decrying the move. Their Republican colleagues Garofalo and Sen. David Osmek (R-Mound) told them to chill, and to have faith that nothing is amiss.
On Thursday, Thissen forged ahead. He introduced a new Internet bill that, while it doesn't ensure anybody's privacy, would force service providers to pay consumers back.
His bill would direct the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to determine how much Internet providers profit from the selling of consumer data, and how much they should pay consumers for using their data. Beginning in January 2019 Internet service providers would have to start paying out.
"Right now, our economy is becoming increasingly dominated by a handful of incredibly powerful companies who make huge amounts of money trading on the personal information of Americans," Thissen said. "It's time for Minnesotans to have ownership of their own personal information recognized and to share in the profits made off the sale of that information."


https://citypages.com/news/bill-would...data/421367764

[bobert]

Originally Posted by Orrie

On a lighter note, this must be what Skip was referring to earlier
We're gonna be rich!!!



Bill would make internet providers pay you for selling your personal data



If someone secretly collects your personal information without your consent and sells it to marketing companies, you might as well get a cut, right?

That's very interesting. I hope that happens all across the states and not just in Minnesota.

But, considering their money is at risk the ISP's will most likely lobby hard against that bill. It's a shame their interests are in profit and not 'the people'.

[St. Phatty]

I think forums like ICMag qualify as Social Media in the truest (good) sense of the word.

Brings people together & results in real life meetings. Thank you ICMag !


I have seen with family members who worked in the Web industry & other tech folks, how some of them are very pro-Facebook.

And literally make fun of software like vBulletin (that ICMag uses) for being 'old-fashioned'.


There is definitely a financial pull in corporate America. Just like in the old days, "nobody ever got fired for recommending IBM", nowadays, nobody gets fired for telling their marketing clients to use Facebook to promote their business. So now it's, "Nobody ever got fired for recommending Facebook."


Just thinking of the business end, I would guess ICMag might make more money selling Cannabis ads than Facebook does.

Originally Posted by bobert

That's very interesting. I hope that happens all across the states and not just in Minnesota.

But, considering their money is at risk the ISP's will most likely lobby hard against that bill. It's a shame their interests are in profit and not 'the people'.

You can bet they will lobby hard
I was thinking the real shame is they could use that money to pay the people instead of the politicians and still come out ahead

[bobert]

Originally Posted by St. Phatty

I think forums like ICMag qualify as Social Media in the truest (good) sense of the word.

Brings people together & results in real life meetings. Thank you ICMag !


I have seen with family members who worked in the Web industry & other tech folks, how some of them are very pro-Facebook.

And literally make fun of software like vBulletin (that ICMag uses) for being 'old-fashioned'.

I agree. ICMag too is basically social media, but without the intrusions Facebook comes with.

And there's nothing wrong with icmag being 'old-fashioned'. I like it that way

Originally Posted by Orrie

You can bet they will lobby hard
I was thinking the real shame is they could use that money to pay the people instead of the politicians and still come out ahead

They definitely could. It is a shame :/

Originally Posted by bobert

I agree. ICMag too is basically social media, but without the intrusions Facebook comes with.

Yup, we will be expecting those pics you were thinking of posting on those other sites very soon !

I'm kidding. Be as safe as you feel you need to be and don't feel pressured to post anything you are not comfortable with.
Good luck in all your endeavors bro.

[bobert]

Originally Posted by Orrie

Yup, we will be expecting those pics you were thinking of posting on those other sites very soon !

I'm kidding. Be as safe as you feel you need to be and don't feel pressured to post anything you are not comfortable with.
Good luck in all your endeavors bro.

Aha. I actually already posted them here once I made up my mind about not posting them elsewhere.

I appreciate the good luck wish. Here is the link

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=342607

[b_bout_it_303]

I would not put on facebook but instagram, the game has changed.
People sell cuts, oil, edibles, everything in denver through ig stories!
World is changing, and now with so many legal states, it is a different world!

[mcnasty]

Originally Posted by bobert

Well that gives me some sense of security, being in the US, but not really :/ gotta love big brother!




I've been looking into ways to hide my ip# and disable cookies so nothing can be tracked back to me but it is extremely difficult.

The onion router hides your ip# through a series of ip#'s all around the world. Almost like using a proxy server with multiple ip addresses. I'm not sure if that actually works, I just saw a commercial for it on Viceland. Kinda interesting!

Unfortunately using these kinds of things usually gets you flagged as one to watch.

[bobert]

Originally Posted by mcnasty

Unfortunately using these kinds of things usually gets you flagged as one to watch.

Especially if you're using your home computer or home ip address to access the proxy sites.

I've been researching if there is a way around getting noticed. And I think I found it.

There's a program called tails people use to access the dark web. I'm pretty sure it's what Edward Snowden used to hide from the gov't. It's an operating system separate from Apple, Windows or Linux that you boot up from a USB drive or cd. It has the t.o.r browser pre-installed and defaulted so that's the only browser you're able to use. It comes with PgP encryption for emails. You're even able to run it on a computer without a hard-drive, and it erases everything you did once you remove the USB or cd. You just have to disable Javascript.

Using tails with the tor browser on public wifi like Starbucks or McDonald's, using a burner computer sounds pretty undetectable.

But still something I wouldn't use to post on my personal social media account because that would defeat the purpose.