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Zuckerberg Suing Native Hawaiians For Ancestral Lands

January 22, 2017 Staff, www.indiancountrymedianetwork.com Educate! Facebook, Hawaii, Indigenous Rights, Land grabs

By Indian Country Media Network. In an effort to make the 700 acres of beachfront property he purchased in 2014 on the North Shore of Kauai as secluded as possible, three companies controlled by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are suing more than 300 people—living and passed on—with ancestral links to the land. The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports there are close to a dozen small parcels within the estate purchased by Zuckerberg that are owned by Hawaiian families who have rights to be on the property. The legal action Mark Zuckerberg is trying to push is called “quiet title and partition,” and according to the Star Advertiser it isn’t uncommon in Hawaii.

Facebook’s “Free” Internet Will Harm Low-Income Consumers

November 5, 2016 Rachita Taneja And Mark Tseng Putterman, www.wired.com Educate! Facebook, Net Neutrality

By Rachita Taneja And Mark Tseng Putterman for Wired - FACEBOOK IS WORKING to bring its controversial Free Basics program, which promises to get more low-income users onto the internet by providing free access to a curated and limited set of online resources, to the US. In October, the Washington Post reported that Facebook has been courting White House favor for CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pet project in hopes of avoiding the public furor that led regulators in India and Egypt to ban the platform over concerns it violated principles of an open, equal internet.

As Media Gatekeeper, 70+ Groups Call On Facebook To End Censorship

November 1, 2016 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Resist! Censorship, Facebook

By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams - As Facebook comes under fire for its alleged censorship and tracking of activists and protesters, a coalition of more than 70 groups and individuals has demanded the social media behemoth "clarify its policy on removing video and other content, especially human rights documentation, at the request of government actors." A letter (pdf)—whose signatories include the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Facebook ‘Blocks Accounts’ Of Palestinian Journalists

September 27, 2016 Sophia Hyatt, www.aljazeera.com Educate! Censorship, Facebook, Journalism, Palestine

By Sophia Hyatt for Aljazeera - Editors from two Palestinian news publications based in the occupied West Bank say their Facebook accounts were suspended last week and that no reason was provided, alleging their pages may have been censored because of a recent agreement between the US social media giant and the Israeli government aimed at tackling "incitement". Last week, four editors from the Shehab News Agency, which has more than 6.3 million likes on Facebook, and three executives from the Quds News Network

Facebook Amends ‘Real Name’ Policy After Protests

December 17, 2015 Dave Lee, www.bbc.com Resist! Facebook, Protests

By Dave Lee for BBC - On Tuesday the site said it was to test new tools that allowed people to share any special circumstances they felt meant they could not use their real name. The tool is intended to help people who may have suffered domestic abuse, or in cases where their sexuality could put them in danger. However, Facebook stood firm on insisting people use "real names" in all but the most unusual situations.

Activists Accuse Facebook Of Lobbying For CISA

October 27, 2015 Dan Wright, www.shadowproof.com Resist! Facebook, Lobbying

By Dan Wright for Shadow Proof - Facebook Incorporated is once again facing criticism from internet freedom and privacy advocates, this time for deception on their lobbying activities related to the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA). CISA is the latest iteration of a long legislative effort by the government and various corporate interests to destroy legal privacy protections for internet users. Previous versions of CISA such as SOPA and PIPA were ultimately defeated in Congress after public outrage and opposition from an alliance of powerful tech firms scared politicians off.

International Opposition To Facebook’s Fake Internet

May 19, 2015 Josh Tabish, www.openmedia.org Resist! Facebook, Internet, Internet Freedom

Sixty-five organizations from 31 countries and regions around the world released an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailing significant concerns about his plan to control what the next 3 billion Internet users do online through Facebook's controversial Internet.org initiative. You can see our concerns outlined in the full PDF below. The letter was signed by tons of groups including our friends at Access, Bits of Freedom, EDRi, the Centre for Media Justice, Popular Resistance, and dozens more from around the world. The goal is to amplify the concerns of people in countries like India, Brazil, Zimbabwe, and Paraguay, who are outraged over Zuckerberg’s fake Internet, which blocks the websites, apps, and services the rest of the world loves from being available on equal terms. We've been hearing a lot of concern from our members and wanted to provide a place for them to speak out and for a hub to find background materials. At the end of the day, we all deserve access to the full, real, open Internet. Not just Zuckerberg’s fake imitation. So let’s stand together and make sure he knows there’s another path to take – Internet users around the world would rather he use his influence for good and promote access to the real open Internet that his poor imitation. And we hope the NoFakeInternet.org campaign can contribute to that end – but it only works if you speak out.

Facebook Scrubs Activist Reporter’s Timeline

October 31, 2014 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Educate! Facebook, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Occupy Wall Street

Eight years ago when Patti Beers joined Facebook she had no idea it would become her central link to thousands of friends. A fan of MySpace, Beers looked for something more interactive and discovered Facebook social media was sweeping the internet. She found friends she hadn’t heard from in years and was able to connect her family in one place via Facebook. When the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) encampments sprung up in New York City and around the country during the Fall 2011, Facebook became a natural fit for discussing views of world change, sharing ideas and organizing events. Eventually Beers began reporting on OWS protests and live-streamed events using the service UStream and had announced such live events through Facebook.

Facebook Tells DEA To Stop Fake Profile Pages

October 19, 2014 Alicia A. Caldwell, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, DEA, Facebook, Privacy

Facebook wants assurances from the Drug Enforcement Administration that it's not operating any more fake profile pages as part of ongoing investigations. Facebook's chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, said in a letter Friday to DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart that law enforcement agencies need to follow the same rules about being truthful on Facebook as civilian users. Those rules include a ban on lying about who you are. Sullivan's letter was in response to a New York woman's federal lawsuit claiming that a DEA agent created a fake online persona using her name and photographs stored on her cellphone. In court filings, Sondra Arquiett said her pictures were retrieved from her cellphone after she was arrested in July 2010 on drug charges and her cellphone seized.

Privacy Groups Urge Stopping Facebook From Collecting Data

July 30, 2014 Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, www.tacd.org Resist! Facebook, Privacy, Surveillance

TACD calls on regulators to stop Facebook collecting web browsing data TACD has written to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Irish Data Protection Commissioner to urge them to take action and halt a recently announced change in Facebook’s business practices. Facebook announced in June 2014 that it plans to increase the amount of data that it collects from users. The company is planning to collect more information about the web browsing activities of Internet users for the purposes of targeted advertising. Facebook already installs cookies and pixel tags on users’ computers to track browsing activity on Facebook.com and Facebook apps, however the proposed change would meant that those cookies and pixel tags will also track users’ browsing activity on any website that includes a few lines of Facebook code. TACD is calling on regulators to require Facebook to suspend this change in policy and determine whether it complies with current U.S. and EU law.

Facebook Fights Broad Search By Government

June 28, 2014 Vindu Goel and James C. McKinley Jr., www.nytimes.com Resist! ACLU, Facebook, Law, New York City (NYC), Privacy

Facebook and the Manhattan district attorney’s office are in a bitter fight over the government’s demand for the contents of hundreds of Facebook accounts. In confidential legal documents unsealed on Wednesday, Facebook argues that Manhattan prosecutors last summer violated the constitutional right of its users to be free of unreasonable searches by demanding nearly complete account data on 381 people, ranging from pages they had liked to photos and private messages. When the social networking company fought the data demands, a New York judge ruled that Facebook had no standing to contest the search warrants since it was simply an online repository of data, not a target of the criminal investigation. To protect the secrecy of the investigation, the judge also barred the company from informing the affected users, a decision that prevented the individuals from fighting the data requests themselves. The case, which is now on appeal, pits the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches by the government against the needs of prosecutors to seek evidence from the digital sources where people increasingly store their most sensitive data.

Facebook’s History Of Tracking You

June 20, 2014 Julia Angwin, www.propublica.org Educate! Dystopia, Facebook, Privacy, Surveillance

For years people have noticed a funny thing about Facebook's ubiquitous Like button. It has been sending data to Facebook tracking the sites you visit. Each time details of the tracking were revealed, Facebook promised that it wasn't using the data for any commercial purposes. No longer. Last week, Facebook announced it will start using its Like button and similar tools to track people across the Internet for advertising purposes. Here is the long history of the revelations and Facebook's denials: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg introduces the "transformative" Like button… April 21, 2010 – Facebook introduces the "Like" button in 2010 at its F8 developer conference. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg declares that it will be "the most transformative thing we've ever done for the Web."

Top 10 Reasons Why Corporate Social Media is Not Your Friend

June 19, 2014 Bruce A. Dixon, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Corporatism, Facebook, Profit, Social Media, Surveillance

It's new, it's now, it's cool, learn how... everybody's on it, everybody's doing it. For some time now, we've been told you cannot build a business, find old friends or organize much of anything without the indispensable aid of corporate social media, especially Facebook and Twitter. But what if this is about as true as other stuff the supposedly wise and informed told us in recent years, like that real estate prices could be counted on to always go up? Human societies are based on lots of horizontal communication. What if corporate social media is little more than a gigantic scam to extract revenue from the otherwise ordinary communication the internet permits between groups and individuals, between people and businesses, and among communities of interest. What if corporate social media ultimately aims not to open up but to throttle and restrict those conversations to make them artificially scarce and valuable commodities. What if corporate social media's business model is to thrive on content its proprietors don't create, and to place itself between that content and prospective audiences, even to substitute itself for the web sites, email lists and media offerings of content creators?

New Snowden Documents Reveal Depth Of Infiltration

May 15, 2014 Glenn Greenwald, www.revolution-news.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Facebook, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance

We have known for some time now that NSA exploits social networks for surveillance purposes. What kinds of information can be obtained from Online Social Networks (OCNs)? LOTS. Communications, photographs, videos, location and travel information, day to day activities… basically everything about everyone. Is your Facebook locked down? Doesn’t matter. GCHQ & NSA collect your information anyway by exploiting“inherent weaknesses in Facebook’s security model.” The new slides cite Facebook as “a very rich source of information on targets” as it provides insight into personal details, life patterns and connections to associates. NSA slides demonstrate that online social networks (OSNs) are fully exploited for purposes of spying on everyone. Facebook is a huge network so it requires a CDN or a Content Delivery Network to deliver content faster. Your Facebook photos and videos are not hosted on Facebook servers, they are uploaded to Akamai (pronounced ACME) servers around the world. Without a CDN all Facebook content would reside only on one server so users who are far away from that server would take awhile to access and load content.

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