During my travels through Shanghai, Ningbo, Hangzhou, which the Chinese call Next Best Place to Heaven and other cities, I can’t tell you how many times I faced online problems when I bumped into The Great Firewall of China. The many online platforms on the Internet which we take for granted are not available to The People's Republic of China.
Why would Facebook agree to share our information with The Chinese? Are they listening to your conversations? Is it tapping our microphones? The ads we often see are extremely specific. Sometimes they even advertise things folks just talked about. How does Facebook target such on-point ads?
Meanwhile, Facebook has faced intensifying scrutiny this year, and the tide may be beginning to turn on the need for governmental intervention in its business, but the company itself seems to have learned nothing about the need for conscience— other, perhaps, than that the tarnishing of its brand called for a name change at the corporate parent. It might be time for news organizations to wean themselves from Facebook, and, doing what I could, will stop placing this column there.
Is this the end of all privacy as we know it? Facebook shared user data with flagged Chinese mobile firms, a report says https://ti.me/2HlqPsc?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_camp…
There is no service in China, so why would Facebook confirm data sharing with Chinese companies? https://reut.rs/2kRBLoL
Facebook Allowed a Chinese Firm Deemed a 'National Security Threat' to Access Personal Data: Report. Facebook Gave Data Access to Chinese Firm Flagged by U.S. Intelligence https://nyti.ms/2xKjmTX
Facebook discloses data-sharing partnerships with 4 Chinese device makers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-05/facebook-discloses-d…
Lawmakers press Facebook over Chinese data sharing https://reut.rs/2kQw0Yd
Facebook reminds us: Never tweet. Just don't. https://mashable.com/2018/06/05/facebook-tweets-privacy-scandal/#DiFcF8…
Facebook says privacy-setting bug affected as many as 14M https://apnews.com/37f334f88f2e41c09f493d365a2bd4d0
