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There’s a very large difference between: - Tracking the behavior of your own users on your own app, for product improvement purposes (which most users will exp
by confounded 8y ago
There’s a very large difference between:
- Tracking the behavior of your own users on your own app, for product improvement purposes (which most users will expect)
- Sending the behavior of your own users on your app to an advertising surveillance company, with an ID that can be used to correlate that behavior with behavior elsewhere, without their knowledge, consent, or reasonable expectation
And before anyone says it, no, a generic line about third-party service partners in a sadistically long TOS/Privacy-policy does not count as meaningful consent. Even Supreme Court justices admit that they don’t read them.
- saagarjha 8y ago> Tracking the behavior of your own users on your own app, for product improvement purposes (which most users will expect) Depends. I think it's clear that users do not expect you to record their session, even though it's tracking behavior for product improvement.
- OnlyLys 8y agoI'm not too up to date on the news, but isn't FB building a shadow profile of everyone? So even if you're not a user, you get tracked and your data gets sold. That to me was a step too far, and got me to really scale back what I share on the Internet.
- morningmoon 8y agoThey don't have shadow profiles. That was FUD spread by the news, and articles like the one we're commenting on now that constantly get voted up to the front page. Here's Facebook's post explaining what they collect for people who haven't registered: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/data-off-facebook/ https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/data-off-facebook/ TLDR: They collect what Google and all the analytics and ad-network companies collect, in order to target ads, along with incidental "user data" like IP address, etc.