{"id":10446,"date":"2013-09-18T08:43:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T08:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10446"},"modified":"2013-09-18T08:43:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T08:43:38","slug":"11-million-users-quit-facebook-over-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10446","title":{"rendered":"11 Million users quit Facebook over spying"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"facebook\"<\/a>A new report by the Daily Mail reveals Facebook users are abandoning the social media giant at an unprecedented rate over privacy concerns.<\/p>\n

New research shows Facebook has lost a total of eleven million users, nine million in the US and two million in Britain. Researchers at the University of Vienna analyzed 600 users and found that almost half quit as a result of privacy concerns.<\/p>\n

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Studies show the majority of users that quit the site were older males.<\/p>\n

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Facebook, among other tech giants, have been repeatedly under scrutiny for their lack of user privacy, including turning over thousands of user\u2019s info to the government. In August, Infowars revealed Facebook submitted information on approximately 38,000 users in 74 countries during the first half of 2013.<\/p>\n

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Over half of the requests originated from inside of the United States. Tech giants are unable to reveal absolute numbers on how many requests they\u2019ve submitted to because the government prohibits them from doing so. However, companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo have formed a unique alliance and are fighting back.<\/p>\n

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The tech alliance is putting pressure on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) court by filing motions asking to publicly disclose more details about secret national intelligence requests, instead of just releasing approximations.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe believe there is more information that the public deserves to know, and that would help foster an informed debate about whether government security programs adequately balance privacy interests when attempting to keep the public safe,\u201d said Facebook\u2019s general counsel Colin Stretch.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEditor of the journal Cyberpsychology, Behaviour and Social Networking which published the findings, said: \u2018Given high profile stories such as WikiLeaks and the recent NSA surveillance reports, individual citizens are becoming increasingly more wary of cyber-related privacy concerns,\u2019\u201d reported Mail Online.<\/p>\n

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Facebook has also been under close examination for their recently updated \u201cStatement of Rights and Responsibilities\u201d policy which states users\u2019 profile data including their profile picture, name and personal information \u201ccould show up as part of a Facebook ad their friends may see on the site,\u201d according to a report by Mashable.<\/p>\n

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Even more controversy surrounded the social media giant when they announced the update of the \u201cTag Suggest\u201d feature, which would allow facial recognition technology \u201cto speed up the process of \u2018tagging\u2019 friends and acquaintances who appear in photos posed on the network,\u201d reported Reuters.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, users\u2019 concerns over privacy, or lack thereof, are certainly substantiated. However, if your information isn\u2019t being collected through Facebook, NSA\u2019s spy program, PRISM, is sure to scoop up your info in some other way, most likely through email or cellular data. – infowars.com<\/p>\n

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