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Yes -- Sadly this was "confirmed" this week when Zuckerberg said "In general we collect data on people who are not signed up for Facebook for security purposes,
by thsowers 9y ago
Yes -- Sadly this was "confirmed" this week when Zuckerberg said "In general we collect data on people who are not signed up for Facebook for security purposes,"... “We need to know when somebody is trying to repeatedly access our services,”[0]
When a congressmen asked about collecting data on non-users and building "shadow profiles"
> Zuckerberg said he was not familiar with the "shadow profiles" term
[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-11/zuckerberg-says-facebook-collects-internet-data-on-non-users https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-11/zuckerber...
- erulabs 9y agoRight - you'd want to use a fingerprinting technique (collecting data) to identify machines for rate limiting (security, read: intrusion detection) purposes. Almost every API of any consequence does this, and it was done as a defensive tactic to reduce costs/load/outages caused by spammers, ddos attacks, crawlers, etc etc etc. Not sure at what point access logs with cookie data in them becomes a "shadow profile"
- closeparen 9y agoThe “shadow profile” scandal has to do with Facebook’s records of your visits to other pages that embed a Like button.
- erulabs 9y agoWell, right, the embed is hosting on facebook servers, and like I said, they collect access logs... So they are necessarily "collecting information on non-users" if they implement any sort of rate limiting based on fingerprinting for non-users... Which is more or less industry standard... Not saying any of this is how things _should be_, it's just a little bizarre to make it seem like some sort of stealthy data harvesting scheme.