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I'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.

I'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 ago
They 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.