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Am I missing something or has the beacon functionality of the Like button not come up yet in the hearing? I think it's critical to note that the Like button can
by glup 9y ago
Am I missing something or has the beacon functionality of the Like button not come up yet in the hearing? I think it's critical to note that the Like button can---and probably is---being used to build non-user profiles as well as user profiles. The critical technical thing is that the load of the Like button is the critical signal; whether the user actually liked something is secondary. It seems like Senator Gardner got close yesterday but had some technical misunderstandings about just how powerful the Like button is.
- humblebee 9y agoIt came up yesterday. A question was asked wether or not Zuckerberg thought user understood that Facebook had the ability to track every website they visit when Facebook social media icons appear on those pages.
- glup 9y agoThat's what I was referring to regarding the exchange with Gardner: it was talking about users and implied that Facebook had to be open at the same time. >> Senator Gardner: if you're logged in to Facebook with a separate browser and you log in to another — log in to another article, open a new tab in the browser while you have the Facebook tab open, and that new tab has a Facebook button on it, you track the article that your reading. So it wasn't emphasizing that this tracking is ubiquitous and could be used to construct quire information-rich shadow profiles. I still don't think the senators are aware of this. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/04/10/transcript-of-mark-zuckerbergs-senate-hearing https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/04/10...