Recently I gradually came to understand how privacy is the crucial part of the basic human rights, and also it is really hard to keep that rights from the intention of malfeasance.
You may know why the blockchain impacted global society because it does split your identity from the actual payment info, which cannot be realized under the central bank-based social system. (yet the crypto-currency is now victimized by the Japanese bureaucrats with extremely heavy taxes and requirement of identification to make it available.)
I thought Facebook is totally vulnerable to the governmental pressure like FBI investigation, but the thing was much worse. Please look at the following article:
https://stallman.org/facebook.html
So it can be concluded that our daily activity is monitored (or at least exposed to the state that it is accessible from the third party), and as described, the company compromised the user's rights to the pressure of Chinese, American, Turkey government. Also, if you are any kind of political activist who fight against the authority, even though you are not that violent terrorist, your privacy and account is at risk. They can arbitrarily shut your account down.
In addition, that website tracks your cookie, such that Facebook spoofs your geolocation and the all browsing histories other than connection to the facebook pages.
Definitely, these are the serious and fatal offenses to our basic democracy and we actually hve been exploited by that gigantic corporation. It even violates the EU law. They disrespect our freedom of speech either.
So now how you can trust that SNS website? Maybe we may need even to doubt LINE, Skype, Instagram, Gmail etc... (Of course I hate Google since it does collect our browsing history for the commercial purpose but that does not ensure that they are going to abuse our privacy with it).
Now its high time for us to realize the security risk and our democracy and individual freedom is always threatened and violated by so many private organizations or governments.
One notable example in Japan is Hase-Cara incident, kind of cyber-bullying social phenomenon occurred since 2012. There is not much space to talk detail history of this, but to be brief, a high-school kid who posted a lot on the 2-chan, because of the bulk of his past comment archives, the anonymous netizens found his identity and his address. After that, a lawyer who tried to defend him also became target of the cyber-bullying and severe physical and on-line harassments occurred persistently. The community made such as nomenclature "toy of the cyber-space", and the private info including name, school, address, etc.. of the victim's friends or relatives are even exposed on the internet, and impostors of those victims did bunch of nasty things only to defame the targets, making the stickers the face and name of the victim on it and randomly paste in public... such kind of thing.
It is not that easy to think it as 100% democratic phenomenon but might be some bad organizations are behind it in order to control the public opinion, for instance, if a guy tries to criticize some profit group in public, the sanction such as this Hase-Cara attack and defame the target with the label that he/she is schizo/insane("ama-imo") could invalidate the target/target's acclaims. (This is what I concern the most). Yet this part is just a guess, at this point I do not find any proof but it is really likely.
PS:
For those whom I rejected being friends with on facebook.... here the cause lies on. I personally did not care much about exposing and broadcasting my private activity on line, but did not want to involve and harm other's info, even though sensitive or not, when my account or its data has been exploited or compromised. I actually did connected with several of my old friends, but that was simply because I didn't realize that risk when I added them as a new FB friend, or since those people lived far from Tokyo or even Japan. So please do not feel bad about my past rejection, there was reason.
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