Penguin: Facebook Fraud #GoogleGestapo Core Value

Facebook Slides After Report Claims 50% Of Its Users Are Fake Facebook Ripped Off Game-Playing Kids And Their Parents In Multi-Year “Friendly Fraud” Scheme Internal Facebook Memo Reveals The Company Encouraged ‘Friendly Fraud’ When parents found out how much their children had spent – one 15-year-old racked up $6,500 in charges in about two weeks playing games on Facebook …

#GoogleGestapo: ‘There’s no place to hide’: Shocking study reveals how Twitter and Facebook learn private information about you – even if you DON’T have an account

‘There’s no place to hide’: Shocking study reveals how Twitter and Facebook learn private information about you – even if you DON’T have an account Researchers looked at publicly available Twitter posts from almost 14,000 users Algorithms accurately predicted 64% of the time what they were going to say If the user didn’t have an …

Berto Jongman: #GoogleGestapo – How Can I Remove Google From My Life?

How can I remove Google from my life? Geoffrey writes from his Gmail address to ask how he can stop Google from intruding into almost everything Jack Schofield, The Guardian Google started by taking over the search engine market. It now dominates smartphone operating systems (Android), browsers (Chrome), web-based email (Gmail), online video (YouTube) and …

#GoogleGestapo: YouTube Substitutes on Blockchain

Startup Raises $20 Million to Build ‘YouTube on the Blockchain’ Silicon Valley startup Lino is preparing to take on YouTube with a decentralized, collectively-owned video content distribution system that purports to cut out the middleman to more fairly compensate content creators. The company, which faces competition from Streamspace, Flixxo, Viuly and Stream, all of which …