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> "When the person visiting a website featuring Facebook’s tools is not a registered Facebook user, Facebook does not have information identifying that individu
by tivert 8y ago
> "When the person visiting a website featuring Facebook’s tools is not a registered Facebook user, Facebook does not have information identifying that individual, and it does not create profiles for this individual.
I'm extremely skeptical of that. When I downloaded my Facebook data, there was a "contacts.html" file that contained data scraped from my phone's contact list aggregated with other contact information that I'd never seen before for people I'd never been Facebook friends with. Some people on that list have never had Facebook accounts. While I don't know if they had extra data aggregated into their entry, the fact that their data was scraped from my phone shows Facebook has the data to create a profile for them.
I'm guessing their statements are only true if you read them very narrowly in a misleadingly specific way. For instance, by understanding "profile" to mean a "the Facebook Profile that comes with a Facebook account," rather than a more generic "collection of data about a person."