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Is Facebook collecting or storing data related to persons who have not agreed to Facebook's ToS and who have no Facebook account?
by plmpsu 9y ago
Is Facebook collecting or storing data related to persons who have not agreed to Facebook's ToS and who have no Facebook account?
- aviv 9y agoNo doubt. Every load of their Like button and Comments widget on millions of sites is saved somewhere, building a nice graph of all the pages you ever visited from a particular IP and probably a cookie the widget saves.
- plmpsu 9y agoGiven all the talk and waving around of the Facebook ToS in the hearing, it would have been nice to have this question asked.
- enzolovesbacon 9y agoI would have asked this too (aka shadow profiles). It's sad that it looks like the senators weren't even aware of this, or maybe some were but couldn't phrase in layman's terms.
- cbm-vic-20 9y agoI do not have a Facebook account, though friends have uploaded pictures of me, and now my name comes up for tagging suggestions on other pictures. Facebook recognizes me, and knows my name, identifying me, even though I've never agreed to any ToS.
- forgot-my-pw 9y agoHe admitted that facebook used to collect your friends' data too, but they stopped doing that.
- bobcat9 9y agoCertainly. Facebook runs ads outside of just their own site, so they have to track as many folks as possible. Whether they're tracking PII of non FB users though is (hopefully) unlikely.