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You are being tracked, and your network is identifying you (tagging, mentioning you, posting photos that include you etc) whether or not you use Facebook. This
by danhak 6y ago
You are being tracked, and your network is identifying you (tagging, mentioning you, posting photos that include you etc) whether or not you use Facebook.
This is like telling people who have privacy concerns about 23andMe / Ancestry DNA "just don't use them." Meanwhile their parents or siblings happily open up the floodgates.
- bcherny 6y agoHow do you tag someone that doesn’t use Facebook?
- ciberado 6y agoThe fb ecosystem is widely used, many times as a third-party library in many apps. Sometimes those apps send your data to facebook, sometimes they do it for free as a consecuence of integrating their services. And then, there are the "share with facebook" and "I like this" buttons. https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-tracking-you-even-if-you-dont-have-account-888699 https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-tracking-you-even-if-you-d...
- bcherny 6y agoGDPR, CCPA, etc. ban this, right? And without a permanent user ID (cookies etc. are super volatile), I’m not sure how valuable this data is.
- Nextgrid 6y agoThe GDPR does ban this however it's not being enforced, as proven by the prevalence of Facebook's malicious SDK in any mainstream app.
- EdwardCoffin 6y agoThey're called shadow profiles. If you do a search for facebook shadow profile you'll find a number of articles that talk about how Facebook infers connections between Facebook users and non-users.
- ce4 6y agoCheck out Facebook Analytics. It's used in many smartphone apps, on websites etc. It is an analytics platform free of charge for the website/app operators (and gives FB a huge insight into non-FB users on the side)
- edanm 6y agoThis is true in some sense. But it's also true that FB probably has way less data about you if you don't use it. Given that, most people still happily use it (including me).