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NO, NO, NO. This is not all data Facebook/Google has on me. It's way less. What I don't get in all of this debate: People grant FB/Google/any other app access
by WA 9y ago
NO, NO, NO. This is not all data Facebook/Google has on me. It's way less.
What I don't get in all of this debate: People grant FB/Google/any other app access to their data and seriously expect that their data isn't harvested? IMHO, there really is zero surprise that Facebook has your call and SMS history, if you granted access to that. Or every single login timestamp.
What is way scarier is that the dump you can download is probably far from complete. My Facebook dump shows rather few items, because I'm not a heavy Facebook user. But I'm quite sure that they have A LOT more on me, because of friends uploading my phone number, profile pictures, meta data from the WhatsApp acquisition.
The big scary question is: How do you access the data in your shadow profile that they won't give to you? How do you even prove that they have more on you than they admit?
Edit: Same for Google. I don't use a Google account most of the time and I bet they STILL have my entire search history associated to some kind of shadow profile.
- gcb0 9y agopeople don't know they are granting permissions. when you provision a new android device it will try to link your account to chrone, and its very hard even for a developer to catch its chrome and not android os. after that small mistake (which is an optout in the ui pattern) its game over. google have all your history and every webview ad has your full profile. not to mention your web bank passwords are now conveniently save in google servers in plain text. and yes, an even worse problem is the hidden data/shadow profile.