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It's a bit pedantic, but Facebook does not sell your personal data. They use it to target advertising. And at this point, every large tech company does the same

by lacker 4y ago

It's a bit pedantic, but Facebook does not sell your personal data. They use it to target advertising. And at this point, every large tech company does the same thing. Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft. They all make significant revenue from advertising and they all use data they collect from you to target ads. So, not that targeted advertising is so great, but it's looking like pretty much any hardware device from big tech companies in the future is going to work this way. I don't think Facebook is any different from the others any more.

ElectricalUnion 4y ago
> It's a bit pedantic, but Facebook does not sell your personal data. They use it to target advertising. But they also leak personal data. A lot. At this point, I'm willing to believe that the other adtech-corporations are more likely to be interested and capable in maintaining your data out of the prying eyes (of competing adtech-corporations).
- camdat 4y ago
  > But they also leak personal data. A lot. Some examples please. In recent memory I can only think of examples where services violated TOS (which I'm not sure how FB could prevent) or got authorization from the end user (as in the Cambridge Analytica case). Any examples of them leaking data as a result of their own processes?
  - antiviral 4y ago
    Already posted this above “We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data,” Facebook engineers say in leaked document. https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvmke/facebook-doesnt-know-what-it-does-with-your-data-or-where-it-goes https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvmke/facebook-doesnt-know-...
    - camdat 4y ago
      And? I'm not sure what this has to do with actual leaked data. I'm sure that many companies do not have a high quality data monitoring system, but very few actually leak data to the public.

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It's a bit pedantic, but Facebook does not sell your personal data. They use it to target advertising. And at this point, every large tech company does the same

by lacker 4y ago

ElectricalUnion 4y ago
> It's a bit pedantic, but Facebook does not sell your personal data. They use it to target advertising. But they also leak personal data. A lot. At this point, I'm willing to believe that the other adtech-corporations are more likely to be interested and capable in maintaining your data out of the prying eyes (of competing adtech-corporations).
- camdat 4y ago
  > But they also leak personal data. A lot. Some examples please. In recent memory I can only think of examples where services violated TOS (which I'm not sure how FB could prevent) or got authorization from the end user (as in the Cambridge Analytica case). Any examples of them leaking data as a result of their own processes?
  - antiviral 4y ago
    Already posted this above “We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data,” Facebook engineers say in leaked document. https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvmke/facebook-doesnt-know-what-it-does-with-your-data-or-where-it-goes https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvmke/facebook-doesnt-know-...
    - camdat 4y ago
      And? I'm not sure what this has to do with actual leaked data. I'm sure that many companies do not have a high quality data monitoring system, but very few actually leak data to the public.