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Facebook Buys Israeli Mobile Analytics Startup Onavo
rtoz writes "Israeli Mobile Data Management Startup "Onavo" has announced that it has been acquired by Social Media Giant Facebook. Facebook will get its first office at Israel by acquiring Onavo. Techcrunch has mentioned that Onavo will give facebook a much deeper tech bench to measure how its mobile services are working. 'Onavo will be an exciting addition to Facebook,' a Facebook spokesperson told AllThingsD. 'We expect Onavo's data compression technology to play a central role in our mission to connect more people to the internet, and their analytic tools will help us provide better, more efficient mobile products.'"
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I love the Onavo app for my Android.
Is there any good app that can replace it?
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
Another way for the Israeli government to get all of our Facebook data. Thanks America!
Fuck It.
...their analytic tools will help us provide better, more efficient mobile products.'"
Ah yes, corporate double speak.
....and later launched Onavo Insights, the first mobile market intelligence service based on real engagement data.
More data mining shit to profile people in order to sell them more shit.
I'm just getting more and more disgusted with "technology". It's no longer about making our lives better. It's all about selling now.
Kids, that's how to become rich - develop applications that give the marketers data analysis.
I miss the days when technology was about computing power and making things smaller and smarter. When making a new computer or chip fired people up.
Now it's all about pushing more advertising on people to get them to buy more stuff.
As the Snowden leaks made clear, ALL surveillance data goes to Israel and many of the "companies" that produce the software for this and other espionage purposes are based there.
My, aren't they philantropic all of a sudden. Except that "the internet" means "facebook", and the price tag is having everything you post as well as everything else you do, slurped up, sliced, diced, analysed, sold off to the highest bidder in convenient packages, and regularly dressed up in a "New! Improved!" privacy policy, which usually means less choice to bare ever more, for you.
Of course, we all expect cheese-curdling weaselspeak from this sort of announcement, but even that has limits, and even here they "innovate". Yep, that's the face of "innovation" these days. Better get used to it, more is coming.
The fact is that over 90 percent of the public doesn't give a shit about privacy. If they did facebook would have disappeared by now. I deleted my facebook account 3 years ago, I only had it at all to see pictures of my grand children that my daughter and daughter-in-law posted there. Eventually I got so annoyed with facebook's crap I just deleted the damn thing. All this ranting is pointless though because almost everyone on facebook knows that they have no privacy and don't care about it.
So my questions are: Does being based in Israel provide Facebook's Israeli "subsidiaries" with the ability to use the data from Facebook users differently, that is, in a way that is similar in some aspect to how Israel has access to raw collect NSA data on American citizens in ways that American law doesn't allow? Not to be all conspiracy theory driven but is there a Facebook / NSA connection in this?
I'm thinking back to the earlier /. post on "NSA Shares Intel On Americans With Israel" http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/09/11/1752223/nsa-shares-intel-on-americans-with-israel
Well, that must be the Zionist bankers then, because regular people in Israel do not have access to that spy data, as far as it seems.
You do know that the founders of Facebook are all Jews right?
Interesting perspective, woolen-glasses not removed;
EVERYONE cares about their privacy, but 90% do not clearly understand how belligerent the GROSS VIOLATIONS OF PRIVACY perpetrated by facebooger/akamai/amdocs and other *multinational foreign* internet behemoths has become.
Doesnt give a shit about privacy. If they did....
they might say "I`m taking this call in the other room.", or "i do not want my reject-photo album to be displayed, distributed, copied, or sent to a data-wormhole in TEL-AVIV?!?"
Are you kidding? EVERYONE is concerned with privacy, its a homosapien thing; even nudists keep their wallets away from prying eyes.
There is a very odd and dangerous pattern emerging in the "internet": a country half the size of Switzerland is (by various methods and means) increasing in possession of data which has been obtained through VIOLATIONS OF THE HUMAN RIGHT TO PRIVACY.
Does the mass-media play a part in the mass-deception resulting in the "herd phenomena" directing netizens to these data-wormholes? One`s own government obtaining (legally by way of court-order or otherwise) and hoarding One`s data is one thing, but to to have One`s private data in the (dirty) hands of an unwelcome third-party or *multinational foreigner" is certainly a step or two too far. And when those multinationals are based in the Eastern Mediterranean, unless youre a Cypriot or israeli, IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE.
Ask a Chinese or Norwegian if they intended that their word-processor-files or digital-photo-albums which they manage on their Personal Computers, if those files were intended to be stored in the far-distant desert? Overwhelmingly, NO. So HOW THE HECK DID THIS HAPPEN?
I think he means free as in beer. Not actually purchasing information. Facebook provides the ecosystem for all of this selling info to fester.
"Check out on facebook, and twitter! Forget our shitty product, just check us out!! Isn't it the cool thing to do?
Either that or he's speaking in adwords terms, as in they are selling you the data that you need to reach your target audience. (even though if it's not your target audience 90% of the time factually) Never used facebook ads, or facebook.
You do know that the founders of Facebook are all Jews right?
So your theory is that The Winklevoss Twins were cut off because goyim?
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Have you ever talked to any of these people about the fact that facebook datamines them and sells all their personal info? I have. To dozens of people. Out of all of those, every single one without exception, the response was always some form of "so what." Yeah they don't want their friends to know what they're talking about on the phone maybe and they probably don't want their coworkers knowing all about them but when it's just some faceless global corporation it's like it's okay. Really all the stuff that I had on facebook, which was very little, I basically didn't care about either but then I kept my personal info to a minimum. A lot of people have their entire lives online.