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I am not so sure about that. Almost any answer in that report is vague or circling the issue. Facebook does state, however, that they do NOT create profiles fo
by zwaps 8y ago
I am not so sure about that.
Almost any answer in that report is vague or circling the issue. Facebook does state, however, that they do NOT create profiles for non-users, nor track their history.
The vagueness implies that they do not want to lie to the senat. Yet, they state rather clearly that there are no shadow profiles.
Therefore, it seems there actually may be none.
- itchyjunk 8y agoWhat is a `profile` though? If they create an entry on a different database not linked to face book profiles, does that count? My thought is this: as big as facebook is, they are probably curious about the people who don't have facebook accounts. "we know this person exists because of the activity we see on the internet but we can't link them to any facebook profile." Maybe this is too out there but if i was a company trying to get every user on the internet to have a face book account, the ones without would be as interesting as the ones with.
- AstralStorm 8y agoThat is exactly a profile, constructed by collating metadata and protected by GDPR. Crosslinking and collating personal data such as your name is processing it.
- netsharc 8y agoThe embedded like buttons can be used to track a user across the web, similar to ad agencies' tracking pixels. FB is an advertising company, it would've been very stupid of them if they didn't notice they could do this. And we know they don't carw about ethics... Someone asked Zuck directly about tracking non-users, he said he'll have his team answer the question, and continued with a bullshit "I know about cookies.".. yeah thanks Mr. Boy Wizard, you know about cookies..