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Mr. Z said to the congress that any data of FB members are sniffed out. So they get the "friends" and all other contacts of a member like e-Mail, phone numbers and addresses. Then FB starts a fake virtual account of every friend or contact to sniff out anything they do while traveling or when online. Means FB SEES every move you do on your computer even if you are NOT a FB member. Every page you visit... you say it!

Did he? I watched 7 of the 8 hours and didnt get that impression.


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I think the fines - especially in USA - will be harsh when first NON-FB members will get to the judges.

In order to sue FB wouldn't you need proof that they have this information? Without a FB account how do you know what they have on you?

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Such "free" data collection is not wanted, nor will it be in the sense of any internet user. Today and tomorrow.

While obviously some people do care, I think the majority do not. If you watched the hearings, the questions where people seemed the most passionate (annoyed?) was when they were accusing FB of being liberal biased and censoring Right Wing Christian Values and not the data loss. In fact I'm surprised how little focus there was on privacy and the data loss.

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Sorry for second post - hadn't seen this earlier...

I suspect if your reading this thread, then this won't be news to you, but just like the Google info I posted earlier was probably scary and surprising, you might also find this surprising. If you read it, watch the 3.5 min video, its different content than the article - for example the Geofeedia*/Police comment at 2:50!

NYTimes :- I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/technology/personaltech/i-downloaded-the-information-that-facebook-has-on-me-yikes.html

Really worthwhile read, but some snippets for the TLDR crowd

When I downloaded a copy of my Facebook data last week, I didn’t expect to see much. My profile is sparse, I rarely post anything on the site, and I seldom click on ads. (I’m what some call a Facebook “lurker.”)

But when I opened my file, it was like opening Pandora’s box.
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One surprising part of my index file was a section called Contact Info. This contained the 764 names and phone numbers of everyone in my iPhone’s address book. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that Facebook had stored my entire phone book because I had uploaded it when setting up Facebook’s messaging app, Messenger.
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But what bothered me was the data that I had explicitly deleted but that lingered in plain sight. On my friends list, Facebook had a record of “Removed Friends,” a dossier of the 112 people I had removed along with the date I clicked the “Unfriend” button. ... and also ... More important, the pieces of data that I found objectionable, like the record of people I had unfriended, could not be removed from Facebook, either.
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What Facebook retained about me isn’t remotely as creepy as the sheer number of advertisers that have my information in their databases.
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Facebook said unfamiliar advertisers might appear on the list because they might have obtained my contact information from elsewhere, compiled it into a list of people they wanted to target and uploaded that list into Facebook. Brands can upload their customer lists into a tool called Custom Audiences, which helps them find those same people’s Facebook profiles to serve them ads.
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Using tracking technologies like web cookies and invisible pixels that load in your web browser to collect information about your browsing activities. There are many different trackers on the web, and Facebook offers 10 different trackers to help brands harvest your information, according to Ghostery, which offers privacy tools that block ads and trackers. The advertisers can take some pieces of data that they have collected with trackers and upload them into the Custom Audiences tool to serve ads to you on Facebook.
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Knowing this, I also downloaded copies of my Google data with a tool called Google Takeout. The data sets were exponentially larger than my Facebook data. For my personal email account alone, Google’s archive of my data measured eight gigabytes, enough to hold about 2,000 hours of music. By comparison, my Facebook data was about 650 megabytes, the equivalent of about 160 hours of music. Here was the biggest surprise in what Google collected on me: In a folder labeled Ads, Google kept a history of many news articles I had read, like a Newsweek story about Apple employees walking into glass walls and a New York Times story about the editor of our Modern Love column. I didn’t click on ads for either of these stories, but the search giant logged them because the sites had loaded ads served by Google.

The highlighted point in red is interesting. Google can track you through their advertisements, which lets face it, as the 800lb Gorilla in online advertising, they are everywhere.

* According to Wikipedia Geofeedia is a social media intelligence platform that associates social media posts with geographic locations.

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I watched 7 of the 8 hours

You're a freak of nature!



...just kidding, actually planning to watch that myself.

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means much more than in USA - as you know @SMCJB "smalltalk" does not really exist in Europe. The privacy of a human is more important than gossip for the public.

Now to the news: The EU parliament has decided to invite Mark Zuckerberg to give answers to several groups inside the European Parliament very soon.
For this EU head of justice Vera Jourova had a call yesterday with Sheryl Sandberg (CEO FB) and discussed the data scandal of FB / Cambridge Analytica and others. So it is important to get some distinct answers about privacy from MZ.

The EU parliament is discussing right now to strip some "non-given rights" to use data of internet users in Europe.
That might have strong impact for jurisdiction of bigger scale.

About the data that was collected by FB or Whatsapp or others: I will find out. Sheryl Sandberg said in the telephone call that there are "MORE" apps that were collecting data from members and nonmembers of FB. So the truth will come out to light

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Facebook starts new dating service. What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/05/03/facebooks-dating-service-is-a-chance-to-meet-the-catfisher-advertiser-or-scammer-of-your-dreams/?utm_term=.0a19b475b632&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

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And imagine what happens when you start throwing in facial recognition software! All you people out there with iphone 10s - all these app developers now have your face as well!

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And imagine what happens when you start throwing in facial recognition software! All you people out there with iphone 10s - all these app developers now have your face as well!

Yes, this post mentioned it. I am wary of using face recognition technology.

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I may have mentioned this before, but this is why every device I own with a front facing camera has a little square of electrical tape strategically placed over it. And fingerprint unlock? I don't think so.

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I'm confident that the average American, probably even the majority of American's do not have a clue what GDPR is, even after getting 20 odd emails last week referencing it. I also believe that the average American has already shown they do not care in anyway about data privacy (or net neutrality) as long as their Facebook images load quickly. But maybe I'm cynical. TV news in this country isn't like news in Europe. It's nothing other than sensationalized local stories about toddlers losing their mothers in grocery stores, the occasional person getting shot, and any other potentially emotion generating story. Things like national events, never mind world events are ignored - unless of course there is a strong emotion generated which they can sensationalize.

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