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Not sure where to post this -

A few weeks ago I noticed a couple of strange transactions on my bank account. They were allegedly from a now defunct car hire agency I had used 4 years ago. The charges as it turned out were being made by a company in California - somewhere I have not been for over 20 years.

I informed the bank - they immediately cancelled my card and issued a replacement. Today all the charges were refunded.

It appears that the Californian company was the “parent” company of the car hire firm I dealt with. My guess is that they are trawling through old transactions and attempting to make charges on old customers accounts.

Thieving Bastards.

If I had not noticed, then I believe they would have “charged” a whole lot more to my account. Got to say - the bank were extremely professional, helpful and understanding during this.

Anyone else encountered a similar scenario?

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I apparently bought car insurance in Italy once, at a time when I’d never even been to Italy.

Bank were pretty good about it to be fair. I suspect many on here will have similar experiences. Bit of an eye opener of how much goes on.

I’ve also been burgled once. Horrible but they only took stuff that may potentially have data on it. They left my camera equipment alone.

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Nothing less is expected from FB.

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Social media needs stricter regulation and oversight than proliferation of WMD.

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Strict regulations for companies. Removal of anonymity for users. Half of nonsense will get solved by latter. Ain’t happening though. :expressionless:

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Send in Hans Blix.

ta GIF

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Australia:

Europe:

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So if someone comes onto my fb page and makes discriminatory comments I can be found guilty if I don’t remove them?

How the hell does that make sense?

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I’m getting the feeling from comments here and elsewhere that many of you are just doing social media wrong.

Yes there is a LOT wrong with it, including misinformation, advertising rules, poor ‘policing’ of offensive material, the list goes on.

But…for a grown human of average intelligence or higher, there is nothing on social media that you have to see.

I am only on twitter and facebook (and whatsapp but thats kinda different) because I choose not to use anything else.

On those platforms, I can choose who I am friends with, who I follow, who is allowed to follow me. I can choose alerts to follow specific accounts. I can unfollow or block anyone at any given moment either permanently or temporarily, I can report anything that I believe is offensive or dangerous (even if I have little faith that it will be acted upon).

I can keep in touch with people all over the world, old workmates, make new friends, be entertained, discover new things, learn something every day.

I just don’t understand when people complain about what they are seeing when there is so much control over what you can see and who can see you.

Sure there have been times when i’ve had to step away from it for a while, but that has been because of my own state of mind, but in general if i’m tired of seeing what my ex colleague has had to eat this weekend, i’ll unfollow her for a bit, if i’m sick of seeing tweets about a particular thing, i’ll look at the accounts posting them and consider if I should continue with or not.

If you dislike social media because of the nefarious practices of those who run them then fair enough, if you dislike it because of the content you are seeing, well that’s on you.

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I cannot help but think that stricter regulation is more akin to treating the symptoms rather than the disease.

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In contrast to Australia and Europe ruling, Texas has this…

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Heard an interesting discussion yesterday regarding “dating apps” like Tinder.

Apparently when you sign up, a fake account will very soon “like” you - the fake account is always a very attractive person that almost exactly represents your preferences. Most people believe it to be real, take the bait, and are hooked into chasing down the mirage.

Apparently only 4% of female Tinder users ever “like” a profile.
60% of male users “like” a profile.

Having never used it and only having a rudimentary understanding of it, I do not know what to infer from this - except it seems pretty nasty and dangerous tactics on behalf of the dating websites.

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I wonder how many people waste hours screaming at a bot?

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I tried to go to the source (WSJ), but the article is behind a paywall. Will therefore have to rely on this report instead.

While federal law prohibits the harvesting of data belonging to children under the age of 13, Facebook has spent years searching for a way to convince children to adopt its services as soon as they’re old enough to be tracked.

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TV program “60Minutes” Clip on the interview is available on YouTube but geoblocked, You will need VPN to US region to watch the 13 minutes video.

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I believe all of this has crashed. Worldwide. Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter etc.

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Couldn’t survive Monday