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How to close a FOREX account

Closing a FOREX account requires a little time and paperwork.

As investors in the foreign market exchange know, FOREX accounts can be tricky to maintain and risky for any investor, especially beginning ones, according to the wall street journal. Regardless of your reasons, closing a FOREX account should generally be a simple process. It might take some research to obtain and fill out the proper paperwork and some time to halt account activity, but any investor has the right and ability to terminate an account.

Evaluate your account's balance. Review your contract for any fees or requirements and make sure your account has enough funding to cover any outstanding obligations. You might need to verify correct account information with your investment service to establish how to refund your balance, such as through direct deposit or by issuing a personal check.

Close all open positions and stop any pending trade orders. FOREX account activity must end before your firm can close the account. Some accounts might require a few days notice before closing, which will be described in the contract with your financial service company.

Call or write the professional who manages your FOREX account and request an account termination form. Your representative will have all of the information needed to close your account. Your representative might ask about why you are closing your account and urge you to keep your account open. If your account is in good standing and you owe no fees or have other obligations, your representative must close it for you.

Scan the firm's website or trading application to find an account termination form, for online FOREX accounts. The application termination form might be available in the help, account information or customer service sections. This form might require you to print it out and return it by mail or fax. Firms don't like to lose accounts, so while some websites might guide customers to termination forms, others might require a phone call or e-mail to customer service to obtain the form, according to cnnmoney.

How to delete your facebook account permanently?

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Sometimes you want to get out of the facebook world. Most of the people know about deactivating their facebook. But it is also possible to permanently delete your facebook account. Do remember to download a copy of your facebook data before deleting your account.

Facebook is the biggest social network in the world with around 1.4 billion active users per day. An uncountable number of profiles come into existence every day. Many people post almost all of their life activities on facebook. For some people, it’s only a medium to remain connected with their old friends and remember their birthdays.

Sometimes you want to get out of your facebook life and enjoy the real world. You do this by deactivating your facebook account. But you can also delete your facebook account permanently if you want to leave facebook for the rest of your life.

Also read: how to auto delete your facebook account after you die

Backup your facebook data

Before saying goodbye to your facebook life, you should backup your data in case you need it at a later point in time.

Go to settings.

While in the general tab. Click download a copy of your facebook data.

Click start my archive.

Enter your facebook account password. Click submit.

Click start my archive in the request my download box.

Facebook will then gather all your data and send the copy to your registered email address.

How to deactivate your facebook account?

It’s simple. You might be thinking why I am telling you such a simple thing. If you know how to deactivate your facebook account, it’s good. But some people might not be aware of this. Here are the steps to deactivate your facebook account:

Go to settings.

Click general in the left pane. Earlier the option to deactivate facebook account was on the security page (now security and login).

Click manage account on the screen. Then click deactivate your account.

How to delete facebook account permanently?

One thing that most users want to know is how to delete facebook account permanently. For this, follow the steps:

Log into your facebook account.

Visit this link, https://www.Facebook.Com/help/delete_account

Click delete my account.

I can’t go further as I don’t want to delete my facebook account. So, go ahead yourself.

Important things to consider before you close facebook account

Make sure you’ve downloaded a copy of your facebook data before deactivating or permanently deleting it. You might be aware of the fact that you can gain access to your facebook account after you’ve deactivated it. But be careful, you won’t get the chance to change your mind after you’ve deleted your facebook account permanently. So, take your decision wisely.

It will take 90 days for facebook to delete all your photos, videos, posts, likes, comments, messages, and everything else. Other facebook users won’t be able to visit your profile during the deletion process. However, the text messages, images you’ve sent to your friends via chat will reside at their end because they’re a part of their account also. You can ask them to delete your messages.

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Resolved: FBS BROKER DELETE MY PROFIT 215000$

4evermaat

2nd lieutenant

The biggest problem is trading with unprofessional and fake broker who pretend to offer bona-fide brokerage service for their client.

There are ethical ways to run a hybrid execution model (a + b book), but outright deleting profitable trades from client's trade history is clearly not ethical.

If there was something wrong/toxic with the order flow, there would be a precise way to measure it and deal with it. Of course when you are running an unscrupulous b-book, you can just arbitrarily delete customer trades because there was no 3rd party that cleared them.

Broker waits over 7 weeks and when client has significant profit and tries to withdraw to suddenly claim that his strategy is invalid? How is that even technically possible if the trade execution was "real" and final?

If there was a price error (or other genuine problem), there is a very specific reason for the error and it is tracked very carefully by the execution facility. It would be identified very quickly (a few minutes, maybe a business day to do some more thorough investigation).

Gayanlakshantha

Owns and spams reviews for renkoscalper.Com

Elite forex trader

Recruit

The biggest problem is trading with unprofessional and fake broker who pretend to offer bona-fide brokerage service for their client.

There are ethical ways to run a hybrid execution model (a + b book), but outright deleting profitable trades from client's trade history is clearly not ethical.

$200. The deposit was posted on acct 2019.06.19_09:01:42 and the first trade was later on the same day. The last trade was 2019.08.13 17:19:14. 274 total trades done at all times of the day.

I have been using fbs for so many years now but, I only had some issues too with my other accounts but its not that big thats why I haven't complain.

But this issue needs to solved properly. FBS has alot of time to correct even with the initial trades happen. Now the account grows to $215k suddenly they take it back. You could have corrected it when the balance is arround $500 or more.

Gayanlakshantha

Owns and spams reviews for renkoscalper.Com

I have been using fbs for so many years now but, I only had some issues too with my other accounts but its not that big thats why I haven't complain.

Gayanlakshantha

Owns and spams reviews for renkoscalper.Com

Thusharah2009

Private

The biggest problem is trading with unprofessional and fake broker who pretend to offer bona-fide brokerage service for their client.

There are ethical ways to run a hybrid execution model (a + b book), but outright deleting profitable trades from client's trade history is clearly not ethical.

$200. The deposit was posted on acct 2019.06.19_09:01:42 and the first trade was later on the same day. The last trade was 2019.08.13 17:19:14. 274 total trades done at all times of the day.

Holycow

Master sergeant

FBS official rep

FBS representative

The biggest problem is trading with unprofessional and fake broker who pretend to offer bona-fide brokerage service for their client.

There are ethical ways to run a hybrid execution model (a + b book), but outright deleting profitable trades from client's trade history is clearly not ethical.

$200. The deposit was posted on acct 2019.06.19_09:01:42 and the first trade was later on the same day. The last trade was 2019.08.13 17:19:14. 274 total trades done at all times of the day.

Dear 4evermaat!
Thank you for the relevant question, it helped us to see inaccuracy in the taken actions. We admit our mistake regarding the eliminating of all the profit on mr. Gayan lakshantha’s account and bring our sincerest apologies to him. We thoroughly checked the case once again and returned all the orders opened and closed before the off-market quote. Kindly let us assure you that we didn’t have any bad intentions and this was purely a human factor incident.
At the same time we would like to remind you once again that, unfortunately, no broker is impervious to an off-market quote matter. Though it is rather rare situation. When such case takes place, our specialists eliminate the consequences of it as fast as it is possible. And by elimination, we surely mean not only removal of profitable orders, as you may think, but lossmaking too. Thus, we act not only according to the customer agreement, that all experienced traders read before starting trading with a new broker, but also according to the to the world market practice. If you check other broker companies, you will see that most of them delete orders opened or closed with off-market quote. Such practice is widespread due to the fact that order opened or closed with off-market quote cannot be considered correct. The loss or profit a client gets for trading on off-market quote considered as inaccurate either. Consequently, the balance of a client is recovered to the level that was before off-market quote. No additional funds are deducted. To sum it up, we would like to empathise that FBS has been taking actions in accordance with the customer agreement (see the previous reply).
Regarding your implication that FBS company is a b-book broker/dealing-desk broker/market maker, we would highly appreciate if you provide any relevant proof of it. There is no place for manipulation, since FBS doesn’t use virtual dealer plugin of metaquotes. We are regulated STP & ECN broker and we may recommend you to contact metaquotes to make sure that FBS never purchased virtual dealer plugin.

Resolved: FBS BROKER DELETE MY PROFIT 215000$

FBS official rep

FBS representative

4evermaat

2nd lieutenant

They just deleted trading history and over $200k of profits from a long time client without explanation. I'm not aware of any reputable broker that does this.

The real question is why are you guys trading with brokers you don't know the people behind it? Flashy websites, bonuses, et al are not how an agency broker (a-book) operate. Even a hybrid broker doesn't need gimmicks like that. The quality of brokers in belize seem to be mainly bucket shop. You may disagree with this. But show me one retail broker using an agency model that is licensed in belize, and you might help change my mind.

Let's create a summary of events here of exactly what date and time that you first saw the profits and/or trades deleted.

Also the newest daily or monthly statement showing the 200k balance before the deleting would be helpful.

Was it one account with $200k or was it spread out over several accounts? If so, we need to list the approximate amounts deleted from each account. And a statement for each.

Also, if the company sent you any email reply or message about the situation, please post it here. And also any communication that you have

You can blur/black out any sensitive info like partial email address, phone #, mailing addresses, bank acct numbers, etc.

Gayanlakshantha

Owns and spams reviews for renkoscalper.Com

They just deleted trading history and over $200k of profits from a long time client without explanation. I'm not aware of any reputable broker that does this.

Let's create a summary of events here of exactly what date and time that you first saw the profits and/or trades deleted.

Also the newest daily or monthly statement showing the 200k balance before the deleting would be helpful.

Was it one account with $200k or was it spread out over several accounts? If so, we need to list the approximate amounts deleted from each account. And a statement for each.

Also, if the company sent you any email reply or message about the situation, please post it here. And also any communication that you have

You can blur/black out any sensitive info like partial email address, phone #, mailing addresses, bank acct numbers, etc.

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Gayanlakshantha

Owns and spams reviews for renkoscalper.Com

FBS official rep

FBS representative

They just deleted trading history and over $200k of profits from a long time client without explanation. I'm not aware of any reputable broker that does this.

Let's create a summary of events here of exactly what date and time that you first saw the profits and/or trades deleted.

Also the newest daily or monthly statement showing the 200k balance before the deleting would be helpful.

Was it one account with $200k or was it spread out over several accounts? If so, we need to list the approximate amounts deleted from each account. And a statement for each.

Also, if the company sent you any email reply or message about the situation, please post it here. And also any communication that you have

You can blur/black out any sensitive info like partial email address, phone #, mailing addresses, bank acct numbers, etc.

Dear 4evermaat!
It is quite understandable your desire to take up cudgels on behalf of the trader, but it would be only fair if you took in the situation first.
We hope that our official reply to mr. Gayan lakshantha has shed the light on the issue.
But now we would highly appreciate if you clarify how does the site design and promotions with clearly stated terms and conditions denominate a broker as not reputable? We would like to draw your attention to the fact that FBS company has been founded in 2009, and during its ten-year history has received numerous international awards, proving its worth to the customers. At the moment we do our best to show our gratitude to our customers for placing their trust in us by providing the most breathtaking bonuses and trading conditions.
Considering your remark about FBS regulation, FBS, indeed, is authorized and regulated by the belize international financial services commission (IFSC). IFSC serves as the regulator of financial services at the international level and ensures that only the company's high degree of reliability and the level of social responsibility are able to carry out their activities in the territory of belize and beyond.
More than that we would like to point out that FBS company is trusted and approved of by millions of traders. FBS doesn't use any unethical practices, so such definition as "bucket shop" is not applicable to FBS. Since we do care about our reputation and make our main purpose for our clients to be sure in the broker they chose.

As for mr. Gayan lakshantha, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that, first, this client clearly has changed his trading strategy suddenly and started recording the profit before it has been canceled as if getting ready for such situation (kindly let us remind you about one-leg arbitrage), second, if you check this client’s messages on FPA, you will see that this is not the first case of mr. Gayan lakshantha with different brokers which cannot seem but suspicious.

Deleting facebook account; here are FB’s best alternatives

Facebook and whatsapp are currently facing many issues because of their data sharing policies. Whatsapp previously updated its user data rules and regulations to allow its owner to have access to people’s personal data.

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Analysts and security experts said that the sudden change is a serious matter since no one knows what will the popular social media app do with users’ sensitive data. This is an alarming situation since the new data-sharing policies of whatsapp and facebook could lead to privacy concerns.

Even the popular tesla CEO elon musk posted a tweet this week, saying that people should no longer use whatsapp. He added that they can use signal since it has an end-to-end encryption feature.

This means that the alternative app has a disappearing messages option that prevents the platform’s operators from accessing or viewing the sender and receiver’s messages. If you don’t trust facebook any more, you can just permanently delete your account.

However, you must remember that its archives contain all of the pertinent information related to your account. These include active sessions, chat history, IP addresses, clicked ads, facial recognition data, and photos.

How to delete your facebook account

Before you completely delete your account, it is advisable that you save your personal information first before proceeding. To help you out here’s an easy guide on how to delete your facebook account and save your essential data.

Saving your essential personal information is a piece of cake.

The first thing you need to do is open click facebook’s down arrow. This is located in the upper right corner.

After that, you must go to settings and privacy and then settings. In the app’s left-hand column, just click on your facebook information.

In the center, find and click on download your information. The app will also allow you to select which info you want to download.

You can do this by navigating to facebook’s drop-down lists. These will allow you to create a date range, download your data in either HTML or JSON, and choose between high, medium, or low media quality.

Once you are satisfied with your setup, all you need to do is to click on the “create file” option. Once you are done, the app will send you an email when your data has been saved.

You can permanently delete your account once you received the notification. You can do this by going back to the page headed your facebook information and click on deactivation and deletion.

This section will allow you to deactivate your account or completely delete it. If you want to delete it, either click on “delete account” on that page.

Once you click “delete my account,” your account will be marked for termination and inaccessible to others using facebook.

Great alternatives

If you are already decided to delete your facebook account, you can also try other apps that are considered great alternatives. Aside from signal and telegram, there are unpopular applications that are out there and free to download.

These include mewe. This social media platform has no ads and has over 8 million active users. Aside from mewe, you can also try mastodon, diaspora, minds, and sociall. All of them also have no ads.

How to delete fbs account

FBS has over 14 million traders and more than 6 million affiliates in over 190 countries. About 5 000 traders and partners keep flooding their site daily.

FBS uses the hybrid broker model of straight through processing and electronic communication network (ECN). The broker asserts that orders are passed directly into the system of the liquidity providers at the actual market prices, so requotes are impossible.

The ups of FBS;
the access to investor compensation in case of broker fraud.
Broker is regulated by cysec and the IFSC.
A sound trader education as you sign up.
Low capital requirement for account opening and a good variety of research tools.

Note the careful risk management is a must with FBS due to high leverage offered on a global brand. Their spreads are a bit higher.

FBS is registered in the marshal island. The registration number is 74825 under fbs.Com and operated by FBS markets inc which is a global brokerage arm of the company. FBS market inc is registered in belize with reg. No 119771. It is authorized and regulated by the the international financial services commission (IFSC), belize with the reg. No IFSC/60/230TS/18.

Fbs.Eu controls the european arm of the brokerage firm. It is operated by trade stone ltd, a cypriot investment firm located in limassol, cyprus. It is authorized and regulated by the cyprus security and exchange commission (cysec) with the reg. No 331/17.

Here are the payment options of fbs

Credit/debit card: visa and master cards are accepted. A deposit commission of 3.6% is charged but FBS reimburses the commission leaving the client to pay 0% charges. The withdrawal commission is $1.

Neteller: the minimum deposit amount is $10. A commission of 3.9% is reimbursed by FBS, so clients do not pay deposit fees. For withdrawals, the commission is 2%; minimum of $1 and maximum of $30.

Sticpay: the minimum balance is $3 and the commission is 2.5% + $0.3 for both deposits and withdrawals.

Skrill: the minimum deposit is $10. The withdrawal commission is 1% + 0.25 EUR.

Perfect money: there are no limits on deposits and withdrawals. The withdrawal commission is 0.5%

Bitwallet: there are no commissions on deposits. The accepted currency is the JPY.

Bitcoin can be used to deposit and withdrawal through perfect money. Download perfect money on google playstore and signup to keep your cash.

Withdrawal with FBS

How long does it take to process a withdrawal request with FBS? Deposits and withdrawals through electronic payments systems are processed instantly. Perfect money withdrawals takes 5-10 mins. Deposits via other payment systems are processed with 1-2 hours during FBS financial department business hours from monday to friday 7:00-19:00 GMT +3

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How to open FBS additional account | how to reduce risks

I’m introducing how to open multiple account in FBS.

As summarized in the separate article “ how to choose the best broker for beginners ” and “ the story saved by negative balance protection system “, by utilizing multiple accounts, you can operate more efficiently with less risk.

For example, if you make a profit, you can transfer it to another account frequently, or set a low leverage for highly volatile currency pairs or cfds.

In FBS, you can open up to 10 accounts in each account types.

There are 5 account types in FBS excluding trade 100 bonus account, it means you can open up to 50 accounts totally .

You do not need to verify your identity to open the second and subsequent accounts, and you can create one in less than one minute.

In this article, I will explain not only how to create additional accounts, but also how to transfer funds and how to delete accounts that are no longer needed.

If you didn’t open FBS account yet, please refer to another article “ how to open FBS account ” and open it first.

Why you need multiple accounts

By having multiple accounts, you can get the following benefits.

Risk can be reduced by operating with multiple accounts

Different account currencies and leverage can be selected

You can change the trading tool

Distribute risk to multiple accounts

By changing the currency pair and CFD to trade for each account, the risk itself is distributed to multiple accounts.

In addition, by setting the amount of each fund as small as possible, even if you got a loss cut, the damage can be minimized.

With negative balance protection system, which is one of the biggest features of forex brokers, you will not be in debt.

Therefore, if you make a profit, transfer funds to another account.

If you trade different currency pairs or different cfds, it should be easier to calculate margins if you do not have the same account.

Different currency, different leverage

When creating another account in FBS, you can specify the account currency and leverage setting in the same way as when creating the first account.

For example, when you want to start trading USD pairs with another account, you can set the account currency to USD for easy fund management.

In addition, you can also change the maximum leverage setting for each account.

When trading products with high volatility, you can reduce the possibility of hitting a loss cut by lowering the maximum leverage setting in advance.

FBS allows you to trade with 3000x high leverage, but the minimum leverage can be set from 1:50 by yourself.

Change trading tool

If a forex broker that offers multiple trading platform, such as MT4 and MT5, you can choose another trading tool when creating an additional account.

You cannot change the trading tools for existing accounts.

If you have been using MT4 before but want to switch to more sophisticated MT5, create an additional account and select MT5 as trading platform.

In addition, if you want to use an automatic trading tool (EA) that works only on MT4, you can use that EA by creating an additional account for MT4.

Please refer to separated article “ FBS all account types ” to know the conditions and specs of each account type.

How to deposit into additional account?

One is to deposit money into the additionally created account as before.
The other is the transfer of funds from an existing account.

You can easily transfer funds from the website.

Moreover, unlike deposit, the reflection is completed in an instant.
Also, if the account currency is different, it will be automatically converted into another currency.

The detailed procedure will be described later.

Complete in 1 minute if you have verified your identity

If you already have a real account and have completed the verification, you do not need to verify your identity to add an account.

Creation is completed in 1 minute.

If you haven’t been verified for your main account yet, take this opportunity to do it with referring to the description in the article “ how to open FBS account “.

How to open FBS additional account

The basic flow is the same as when creating a main account.

However, since you have already entered basic information such as your address and verified your identity, you only need to specify the account type, currency, leverage, and other account specifications of the account you want to add.

Open an additional accout

From the FBS dashboard, click the “+” (plus) at the top right of the account list to add an account.

Select an account type

Select an account type you want to add.

You can select any account type regardless of the account type you currently have.

There are two points to note when creating an additional account in FBS.

The first point is that if the account type you are adding is the same as the account type you currently have, you will need a balance of $100 or more in your account.

If you want to add a different account type, you can have zero balance.

The second point is that you can only have up to 10 accounts in total with the same account type.
I don’t think you need more than 10 accounts, but just in case.

fbs multiple account, select account type

Set account settings

Set the platform (MT4 or MT5), account currency and leverage.
Then click “open account”.。

The additional account has been created

The additional account will be activated soon.

You will receive the login information for the additional account by email.

Please do not forget the login information, password, and connection server name of metatrader.

Deposit / transfer money to additional account

There are two ways to deposit money into the added account.

Deposit, this is a normal way to fund it.

Internal transfer, if you have enough funds in your existing account, internal transferring funds is quick and easy.

For details on how to deposit to your FBS account, please refer to the separate article “ how to deposit in FBS “.

Transfer money to additional account

Click “internal transfer” in finances menu on FBS dashboard.

Do transfer

Enter the amount, then do transfer.
Make sure the destination account.

Transfer complete

Transfers of funds between accounts will be reflected immediately.

Summary

As you know now, you can open an additional account and do transfer funds easily in FBS.

Make good use of it and operate with reduced risk.

Delete your facebook

Facebook has been caught allowing the personal data of fifty million users — 50,000,000 — get siphoned off by political data company cambrige analytica and hiding it until it knew the story would come out in the press.

As the upstart voter-profiling company cambridge analytica prepared to wade into the 2014 american midterm elections, it had a problem.

The firm had secured a $15 million investment from robert mercer, the wealthy republican donor, and wooed his political adviser, stephen K. Bannon, with the promise of tools that could identify the personalities of american voters and influence their behavior. But it did not have the data to make its new products work.

So the firm harvested private information from the facebook profiles of more than 50 million users without their permission, according to former cambridge employees, associates and documents, making it one of the largest data leaks in the social network's history. The breach allowed the company to exploit the private social media activity of a huge swath of the american electorate, developing techniques that underpinned its work on president trump's campaign in 2016.

Christopher wylie, who worked with a cambridge university academic to obtain the data, told the observer: "we exploited facebook to harvest millions of people's profiles. And built models to exploit what we knew about them and target their inner demons. That was the basis the entire company was built on."

Documents seen by the observer, and confirmed by a facebook statement, show that by late 2015 the company had found out that information had been harvested on an unprecedented scale. However, at the time it failed to alert users and took only limited steps to recover and secure the private information of more than 50 million individuals.

Back to the new york times:

[dr. Kogan] ultimately provided over 50 million raw profiles to the firm, mr. Wylie said, a number confirmed by a company email and a former colleague. Of those, roughly 30 million — a number previously reported by the intercept — contained enough information, including places of residence, that the company could match users to other records and build psychographic profiles. Only about 270,000 users — those who participated in the survey — had consented to having their data harvested.

Basically, if you took one of the surveys, your data was taken. Worse, the discrepancy between the 270,000 users who participated in the surveys and the 50,000,000 who had their data taken is because facebook didn't just allow access to the survey-takers, but to the friends of the survey-takers as well.

It is, in a word, horrific. The only thing more horrifying is that this isn't unusual when it comes to big internet companies. It's becoming desensitizingly normal.

Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as "surveillance companies." their rebranding as "social media" is the most successful deception since the department of war became the department of defense.
— edward snowden (@snowden) march 17, 2018

It's the reason why I try, as much as is possible, to never post or share anything personal on any social network or search company. Any company that's business model is predicated on harvesting and hoarding my data.

Because you can't trust them.

Facebook makes their money by exploiting and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions, far beyond the scant details you voluntarily post. They are not victims. They are accomplices. Https://www.Nytimes.Com/2018/03/17/us/politics/cambridge-analytica-trump-campaign.Html
— edward snowden (@snowden) march 17, 2018

You can't trust the company — who knows who will own or run them, at the executive or government level, at any given time? — and you absolutely can't trust every single employee that can gain access to your personal data that they've harvested and hoarded. We've seen those types of abuses with everything from the NSA to uber.

The only thing you can trust is a company not having your data, encrypting it end-to-end so even the company itself can't get access to your data, or deleting your data as fast as possible because its business model doesn't depend on exploiting your data over time.

It's been said many times before but it takes a while to sync in: the cloud is just someone else's computer. If you're giving up your data or attention in exchange for free social, mail, messaging, photograph, document, or other transit or storage, then you're really just taking the drive from your computer, unencrypted, and mailing it to those companies to do with it whatever they will.

The problem isn't that facebook was unable to stop cambridge analytics from using fbs data the way it did. The problem is that FB has that kind of data in the first place.#dataminimisation https://t.Co/adfpzxjyso
— malte engeler (@malteengeler) march 17, 2018

Our data is so valuable to the big internet companies that they spend billions and billions of dollars creating and maintaining these free services just to get it. So valuable they spend billions mapping it into social graphs and deep knowledge systems. They do it because they make untold billions more selling ads and "insight" against it.

And while doing so, leaving open to just these kinds of abuses.

To every commentator now asking how facebook could have given access to such intimate profiles of people to third parties, I ask you: what makes it right that facebook, inc. Has that information to begin with and uses it to manipulate people for its profit and political motives?
— aral balkan (@aral) march 17, 2018

In a perfect world, regulation like what the EU is imposing might chill the worst of the abuses. Fines, so terrible that even the biggest internet giants would be hurt by them, could chill it further. But it feels like we live across the known universe from such a world.

These companies are so big, so international, so intertwined in the internet, that it might be too late for regional authorities to curtail them anyway. (in fact, many seem to prefer to work with them — facebook and other internet companies have been accused of far worse abuses in far more totalitarian states anyway.)

The only thing we can do to protect ourselves — the only thing we can do to hurt them — is to stop giving them our data.

It's not a perfect solution. Your friends, family, and colleagues who use the services will still channel your data right to them. The big aggregation firms will still collect and sell it. But you'll make it harder for them. You'll affect their numbers and you'll hurt their stats.

The only thing we can do is delete facebook. And messenger, and whatsapp, and instagram, and every app like them.

We can send a message — that we won't go quietly into the dying of our rights.

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