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#facebook published “ Charting a Way Forward on Privacy and Data Portability ” on 4/10/19 however it is *not* a white paper but a document seeking free guidance and input. In their own words “To address these challenges, we’re seeking feedback and guidance from a wide range of stakeholders about how to build portability in a way that empowers people and fosters competition while maintaining their trust in online services” I have, like many others, given a lot of input over the years to Facebook for free via invites to brainstorms, private sessions and roundtables. In all cases massive promises are made by #Facebook about what next but they never deliver. No papers, no summary, no write up, no thanks – nothing. I set out my thinking on the #facebook data portability paper at the end as interest to those who might also read the paper. I have been exploring the topic of data portability for some time. This piece explores the strategic opinions for market models and the regulators stanc...

Algorithms vs Processes.  In both an input is transformed to an output – there is a difference in HOW.  Algorithm = a set of mathematical instructions or rules that, especially when coded enable a computer to calculate an answer. Typically, specific instructions that can be followed or learnt, that can be mechanised and reduces human involvement to zero. It is a tool it is driven with an idea about better or the most efficient resource allocation. An algorithm is a WHAT and HOW Process = a series or method of tasks/ steps/ actions that are taken in order to achieve a result. Typically, instructions that can be followed or learnt, that enable human and compute/ machine involvement to achieve a set goal, objective or result. A procedure is the prescribed way of undertaking a process. A process is a therefore a WHAT and a procedure is HOW Why important, we debate a lot about the dependence on algorithms in the computer age and how these algorithms will talk over the world...

My picture last week approaching Christchurch NZ. On  my way to pay respect at Al Noor Mosque Dire Straits Telegraph Road . "Then came the liars and then came the rules" Two major posts about Facebook (and web content/ data) by Mark . Both have had lots of coverage, some repeat the messages and some don't have a clue what they are talking about.  Life is normal. 31st March 2019 https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10107013839885441 7th March 2019 https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/a-privacy-focused-vision-for-social-networking/10156700570096634 Both pieces are responses to how to address the very real 21st century, 1st world problems of data: harmful content, election integrity, shari ng, privacy, real-time, data portability, bias, manipulation, consent, addiction, and surveillance.   For me it is all very real as I was in Christchurch taking time to visit Al Noor Mosque ,  to pay my respects and reflect.   If y...

We are all aware of the response that when a digital or Internet service is Free; you are the product. It is most probably an adaption of a 1970 quote from the TV/media industry. Free to Air TV, which is advertising supported, means you watch for FREE in exchange for attention to watch adverts, as product and service owners hope you will buy. I want to explore this line of thinking a little further, as with the introduction of PSD2, GDPR and many other new regulatory frameworks from the US to Australia: the user/ consumer can now get their data back – aka #data_portability/ #data_mobility, so the model of FREE needs to be looked at again with our updated digital glasses on.  The purpose here to raise questions as I am thinking about BigTech and the reaction of companies to new regulations. Who benefits and who is threatened, specifically exploring if branded Banks / Fintech gain or lose with data portability?  The thesis is that the Free Facebook model breaks beca...

The majority who read this will be aware of the response that when a digital or Internet service is Free; you are the product. It is most probably an adaption of a 1970 quote from the TV/media industry. Free to Air TV, which is advertising supported, means you watch for FREE in exchange for attention to watch adverts, as product and service owners hope you will buy. The idea of this post is to explore this line of thinking a little further, as with the introduction of PSD2, GDPR and many other new regulatory frameworks from the US to Australia: the user/ consumer can now get their data back, so this idea needs to be looked at again with our digital glasses on. The purpose here to raise questions with the hope others will help explore what it means through commentary.  Definitions for this post  Derivative : A derivative is a contract between two or more parties whose value is based on an agreed-upon underlying digital data asset (like your social media posts)...

Image source: Associated Press Facebook  has changed its policies regarding profiles of users who have passed away. Feb 21 st 2014. A memorialized Facebook profile (when someone has died) was only visible to friends of the deceased, but now Facebook has altered its privacy settings on memorialized profiles so that all functions operate as they did when the user was active on the platform. For example, if a user kept his profile public to anyone on Facebook, that is the way his profile will be even after his passing. " This will allow people to see memorialized profiles in a manner consistent with the deceased person's expectations of privacy," members of Facebook's community team wrote in their blog. " We are respecting the choices a person made in life while giving their extended community of family and friends ongoing visibility to the same content they could always see ." The policy change involves "Look Back" videos, which wer...

Source: http://www.dailydot.com/lol/bang-with-friends-facebook-glitch/ Logged into   Facebook ? OK, now click   this simple link. Voila:   Here are your friends who have the app installed. Not a bug but a feature…

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According to this study , your Likes of a brand on Facebook are worth about $174.17 to that brand. The reality is that Facebook fans spend more money on the brands they like—$116 a year more than nonfans—even if their income was equal. In addition, those who liked brands were 18% more satisfied with the brand and 11% more likely to continue buying the brand.   We know what we like. Great insight! Syncapse , a social intelligence company, conducted a study with more than 2,000 Facebook users who liked a brand and considered a Facebook user's product spending, loyalty, recommendations, brand affinity and more to come up with the number. Source: http://gizmodo.com/5995468/your-facebook-like-is-worth-17417

Image: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gestures during his keynote address at the Facebook f8 Developers Conference. Zuckerberg's Law is that every year the amount of personal things you will share on Facebook doubles – Source NYT 2008 there are three questions we are now facing in 2013 as sharing continues to grow and we hit the question of where we will end the year. Is there a finite amount that you are prepared to share about your life with others?; Is there a finite amount I am prepared to accept as shared?; and, Is sharing driven by us or the machine? The question is not when will it slow, but what will cause sharing to slow / change. However as sensor and medical data comes online will the  trend prove true?  

The basics are that Facebook searches your " social graph " because it has your and your friends specific "Likes, pages, click, links, connections and conversations" The result is that searching should produce more relevant results thank Google's "Whole World Wide Web".  In other words it feeds you what you have fed it. The signals; your and your friends "Likes" are a somewhat limited data set -  it is not everything you do on the web and does not represent what others do.  However, Google sells search and Facebook also now sells search - in fact since you Like it Facebook can sell (advertise to you) you what you Like and with that Signal increase the advertising margin (hope) when it sells the placement. Simple - tell you what you tell me because you Like it. What Facebook needs to do is add more data as real social graph results as the current one is rather limited ----   http://actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com/ It essence is ...

Having done some reading and catch up this morning on the blog - sorry for the delays but moving from Posterous put a delay in me posting. Current views points coming through is about digital leaders and understanding. However, I still have the same problem. Digital business leadership is not about "likes" it is about living data and what it is telling you and how to use that data to both improve margin, reduce costs, drive efficiency and delight the customer more. The crux is often not what the data you have is telling you, but what it is not and what data you should have collected….. Point in case is Fan data - some research mentioned here is about what the data tells you but it does assume that what someone is telling you is truthful.  The eternal problems of signals.

So this is the email from Facebook and above are the results on 5th December - however I expect that the vote is slow low that FB will ignore them facebook Facebook, Inc. and Facebook Ireland Ltd., which together operate the Facebook service worldwide, recently posted some proposed updates to our Data Use Policy and our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities for your review and feedback. Those updates provided more detailed information about our practices, reflected changes to our products, and modified how we conduct our site governance process. The period for submitting your comments has ended, but you can still provide feedback on those proposals by taking part in our site governance vote. To learn more about our proposed updates (which include additional clarifications based on your comments) and the vote, please visit our Site Governance Page . Voting will end on 10 December 2012 at 12 (PST) / 10 December 2012 at 20 (GMT). We encourage you to review and vote on the proposed v...

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The original article is from WSJ and is called Selling You on Facebook and looks at many popular Facebook apps which are obtaining information about users and users' friends with the SHOCKER untone “ so don't be surprised if details about your religious, political and even sexual preferences start popping up in unexpected places.”  And is the extension of a long running series and viewpoints call “ what they know ” The WSJ has done a nice interactive page that allows you to see what data could be taken, depending on what you have agreed to. The upshot of this is that Facebook is not Free, Your Data has value and the whole UI/UX around privacy and its settings is a mess. Here is the page – have a play

This week I moderated a session (this one was for TRUSTe ) and the focus was on regulation, data protection and law.  Whilst some of the focus was on issues of detail there is still this massive overhang to me that whilst some are rushing down the regulation/ directive/ law route for Identity, PII, data protection and cookies others are just getting on with it.   Way back in January 2011 Facebook stated that their quest is to "make the world more open and connected" by giving out users personal contact information such as home addresses and phone numbers to third-party developers and websites. This all went very quite and it was suspended after public outcry from users and US Congressmen, but whether you like it or not, the social network may be the natural digital place as a directory and how to find someone – it then gives you the place to be social. However, we know that the directory business model is broken and it is only a matter of time before it fina...

The deep packet inspection techniques proposed by the UK government represent a “really serious” breach of privacy, according to S TBL speaking during his keynote speech at W3C. Talking about the  controversial Communications Capabilities Development Programme , the inventor of the web said: “Somebody clamps a deep packet inspection (DPI) thing on your cable which reads every packet and reassembles the web pages, cataloguing them against your name, address and telephone number either to be given to the government when they ask for it or to be sold to the highest bidder — that’s a really serious breach of privacy.”

Here some articles from Facebook about their data provided by the Facebook data team Sources: http://www.facebook.com/data/notes   and  http://www.facebook.com/data/app_190322544333196 Rethinking Information Diversity in Networks Do friends shape the information you see and read online? Some claim that social networks act like echo chambers in which people only consume and share information from likeminded close friends, stifling the spread of diverse information. Our study paints a different picture of the world. The Links of Love Some people marry their high school sweethearts and live together ‘til death do them part’. Other couples go their separate ways and find love anew. All these collective romantic movements can be used to construct a relationship graph. Relationship graphs (Susan dated Joe who previously dated Jane...) are difficult to maintain on a napkin or a whiteboard because who’s dating whom can quickly become yesterday’s news. Bu...