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Is lying in front of congress a crime? If I was a senator, I would have asked these two questions: When I look at a product in an onlineshop like Amazon, afte

by TekMol 9y ago

Is lying in front of congress a crime? If I was a senator, I would have asked these two questions: When I look at a product in an onlineshop like Amazon, afterwards I see adverts for this product on Facebook. How does this work? When I visit a physical store, afterwards I see adverts for this store on Facebook. Even on my desktop computer. Even though I don't have any facebook apps on my phone. How does this work? If he lies and says he don't know, from then on he would be at the mercy of many employees at FB whith whom he has talked about this type of data collection and sharing.

gringoDan 9y ago
Zuckerberg was not under oath, but even so, lying to Congress is a federal crime. Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-will-not-be-under-oath-during-senate-hearing-2018-4 http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-will-not-be-u... More info on "under oath": https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/penalty-for-lying-to-congress/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/penalty-for-lying-to...
thaladred 9y ago
1. Since Amazon uses Facebook for advertising, they can feed their data to both Google and Facebook ads. It's easy to do with cookies. 2. If you don't have Facebook app on your phone or if you did not open your Facebook app when you are in store, you won't see ads for that store. Unless you have a loyalty program with the store or the store decides to target advertise you based on your payment info, etc. In any case, it is the physical store that shares those information.
- TekMol 9y ago
  1: How is that easy? If I had a cookie on Amazons domain, how would that enable Amazon to show me personalized ads on FB? I don't keep cookies though. So the targeting must use other types of user identification. 2: I don't have a FB app nor do I use FB on my phone. But I see ads related to the places I went to. So the flow of information must be via other channels. One part is probably Google (I use Android).
  - icantgoogle 9y ago
    They can also use Local Storage if necessary. I know quite a few Ad tech companies were using local storage to get around no 3rd party cookies in Safari.

by TekMol 9y ago

gringoDan 9y ago

Zuckerberg was not under oath, but even so, lying to Congress is a federal crime. Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-will-not-be-under-oath-during-senate-hearing-2018-4 http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-will-not-be-u... More info on "under oath": https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/penalty-for-lying-to-congress/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/penalty-for-lying-to...

thaladred 9y ago

1. Since Amazon uses Facebook for advertising, they can feed their data to both Google and Facebook ads. It's easy to do with cookies. 2. If you don't have Facebook app on your phone or if you did not open your Facebook app when you are in store, you won't see ads for that store. Unless you have a loyalty program with the store or the store decides to target advertise you based on your payment info, etc. In any case, it is the physical store that shares those information.

TekMol 9y ago
1: How is that easy? If I had a cookie on Amazons domain, how would that enable Amazon to show me personalized ads on FB? I don't keep cookies though. So the targeting must use other types of user identification. 2: I don't have a FB app nor do I use FB on my phone. But I see ads related to the places I went to. So the flow of information must be via other channels. One part is probably Google (I use Android).
- icantgoogle 9y ago
  They can also use Local Storage if necessary. I know quite a few Ad tech companies were using local storage to get around no 3rd party cookies in Safari.