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  • Facebook saves everything forever, has ‘shadow profiles’ for non-users

    From http://www.identityblog.com/?p=1201

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    01 18-AUG-2011 Pokes.
    Pokes are kept even after the user “removes” them.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    02 18-AUG-2011 Shadow Profiles.
    Facebook is collecting data about people without their knowledge. This information is used to substitute existing profiles and to create profiles of non-users.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    03 18-AUG-2011 Tagging.
    Tags are used without the specific consent of the user. Users have to “untag” themselves (opt-out).
    Info: Facebook announced changes.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    04 18-AUG-2011 Synchronizing.
    Facebook is gathering personal data e.g. via its iPhone-App or the “friend finder”. This data is used by Facebook without the consent of the data subjects.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    05 18-AUG-2011 Deleted Postings.
    Postings that have been deleted showed up in the set of data that was received from Facebook.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    06 18-AUG-2011 Postings on other Users’ Pages.
    Users cannot see the settings under which content is distributed that they post on other’s pages.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    07 18-AUG-2011 Messages.
    Messages (incl. Chat-Messages) are stored by Facebook even after the user “deleted” them. This means that all direct communication on Facebook can never be deleted.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    08 18-AUG-2011 Privacy Policy and Consent.
    The privacy policy is vague, unclear and contradictory. If European and Irish standards are applied, the consent to the privacy policy is not valid.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    09 18-AUG-2011 Face Recognition.
    The new face recognition feature is an inproportionate violation of the users right to privacy. Proper information and an unambiguous consent of the users is missing.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    10 18-AUG-2011 Access Request.
    Access Requests have not been answered fully. Many categories of information are missing.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    11 18-AUG-2011 Deleted Tags.
    Tags that were “removed” by the user, are only deactivated but saved by Facebook.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    12 18-AUG-2011 Data Security.
    In its terms, Facebook says that it does not guarantee any level of data security.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    13 18-AUG-2011 Applications.
    Applications of “friends” can access data of the user. There is no guarantee that these applications are following European privacy standards.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    14 18-AUG-2011 Deleted Friends.
    All removed friends are stored by Facebook.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    15 18-AUG-2011 Excessive processing of Data.
    Facebook is hosting enormous amounts of personal data and it is processing all data for its own purposes.
    It seems Facebook is a prime example of illegal “excessive processing”.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    16 18-AUG-2011 Opt-Out.
    Facebook is running an opt-out system instead of an opt-in system, which is required by European law.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    24-AUG-2011 Letter from the Irish DPC. Letter (PDF)
    15-SEPT-2011 Letter to the Irish DPC concerning the new privacy policy and new settings on Facebook. Letter (PDF)
    17 19-SEPT-2011 Like Button.
    The Like Button is creating extended user data that can be used to track users all over the internet. There is no legitimate purpose for the creation of the data. Users have not consented to the use.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    18 19-SEPT-2011 Obligations as Processor.
    Facebook has certain obligations as a provider of a “cloud service” (e.g. not using third party data for its own purposes or only processing data when instructed to do so by the user).
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    19 19-SEPT-2011 Picture Privacy Settings.
    The privacy settings only regulate who can see the link to a picture. The picture itself is “public” on the internet. This makes it easy to circumvent the settings.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    20 19-SEPT-2011 Deleted Pictures.
    Facebook is only deleting the link to pictures. The pictures are still public on the internet for a certain period of time (more than 32 hours).
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    21 19-SEPT-2011 Groups.
    Users can be added to groups without their consent. Users may end up in groups that lead other to false impressions about a person.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
    22 19-SEPT-2011 New Policies.
    The policies are changed very frequently, users do not get properly informed, they are not asked to consent to new policies.
    Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
    Attachments (ZIP)
  • You aren’t required to answer all the census questions

    From BSC

    On the envelope of your Census, it will say your response is required by law.  This is a trick!!  The only question you are obligated to answer based on the US Constitution, is the number of people residing at your address.  All of the other questions are not required.  You can even see the trick, if you look at the first question, which asks how many people live at the house.  It is in its own seperate blue box, though nothing else indicates that the first question is the only required question.  The rest are unconstitutional so do not answer them!  I provide the following legal examples of a response and links to the articles in the constitution.

    To Whom it May Concern,

    Pursuant to Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution, the only information you are empowered to request is the total number of occupants at this address. My “name, sex, age, date of birth, race, ethnicity, telephone number, relationship and housing tenure” have absolutely nothing to do with apportioning direct taxes or determining the number of representatives in the House of Representatives. Therefore, neither Congress nor the Census Bureau have the constitutional authority to make that information request a component of the enumeration outlined in Article I, Section 2, Clause 3. In addition, I cannot be subject to a fine for basing my conduct on the Constitution because that document trumps laws passed by Congress.

    Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson, 154 U.S. 447, 479 (May 26, 1894)

    “Neither branch of the legislative department [House of Representatives or Senate], still less any merely administrative body [such as the Census Bureau], established by congress, possesses, or can be invested with, a general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168, 190. We said in Boyd v. U.S., 116 U. S. 616, 630, 6 Sup. Ct. 524,―and it cannot be too often repeated,―that the principles that embody the essence of constitutional liberty and security forbid all invasions on the part of government and it’s employees of the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of his life. As said by Mr. Justice Field in Re Pacific Ry. Commission, 32 Fed. 241, 250, ‘of all the rights of the citizen, few are of greater importance or more essential to his peace and happiness than the right of personal security, and that involves, not merely protection of his person from assault, but exemption of his private affairs, books, and papers from inspection and scrutiny of others. Without the enjoyment of this right, all others would lose half their value.’”

    Note: This United States Supreme Court case has never been overturned.

    Respectfully,

    A Citizen of the United States of America

    http://topics.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei

    Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have at least one Representative