Posted on 03/02/2018 6:17:36 AM PST by blam
Facebook regularly collects data on its 1.4 billion daily active users worldwide — here is how to find the information they have collected on you. The Daily Mail reports that Facebook may be tracking your Internet habits even if you’ve never registered an account on the site. Facebook states that this information is used to target specific advertising towards users and for other security reasons —explaining why you may suddenly see ads on Facebook for a new lawnmower right after you searched the internet for “gardening supplies.” Although it is not really possible to stop Facebook tracking your internet habits, Facebook users can download the information that Facebook collects, so at least you have a firm grasp on what the Silicon Valley giant knows about you.
Facebook tracks user activities on more than 10,000 websites using invisible trackers called Pixels, these record information about users when they visit one of the sites and transmit it back to Facebook. Information collected by these Pixels include your IP Address, computer operating system, where you’re located, which sites you visit the most and what you do on these websites.
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Ummmmmmmm ... what?
I get zero ads since I installed the extension called FBP, Face Book Purity.
The concept, one that I don’t agree with, is that the use of facebook is a trade for your information. But if you never use facebook. I am not sure why this is ok. You got nothing.
Just saying, in europe, you cannot keep information about people after you can’t show a “need” for the information. So I can keep information about you while you are on the site. But once you leave, I can’t store it. I think EUrope has it right here.
Did you see if that lowered the amount of data they have on you?
Do Ghostery and NoScripts eliminate this tracking?
The purpose of Facebook is to advertise yourself. If you are trying to hide, you are doing it wrong.
“even if you’ve never registered an account on the site”
How?
It says you can check on what they have....but only if you have an FB account...
One of the biggest reasons I never get near social media. All the “biggies” take your information AND SELL IT. You name them...MS, Yahoo, Google, all the SM services, your grocery store, etc....it is big business and bucks for them.
Which underscores the fact that ANYTHING you put on, or via the net, is PUBLIC information.
It includes screen shots of bank statements?
That is terrifying, especially if anybody can download your data.
No they’re called COOKIES and all the websites use them constantly. It’s a post privacy world folks, you’re just a data point.
They don’t need to keep the information, your browser self reports constantly. None of this behave any differently for European users.
I don’t care what Facebook knows about me. My life is an open Facebook.
Bkmrk.
I have in the past gone out on the internet and did a search on my name - I saved the images and then posted them all as me on facebook - must of been at least a hundred different photos but same name. I guess the same would work with just random photo off the net.
I have in the past made random search (places or things)just to see what they do with the info (usually end up with travel information to the places I searched.
When ever I can give wrong information I do.
I am sure they have ways of filtering but I at least make them work on it.
I use facebook to share old family photos and genealogy information. It is a lot easier then sending photos out to everyone in the family
They don’t just know, they sell tge information.
Facebook and even Pinterest must “listen” to what is said around my computer/ipad/phone because I receive ads for things I never looked up but did talk about. Sometimes I receive ads for things my family talked about.
Another Dindu Nuffin, transparent to the media.
15 years ago single pixel images were EVIL ways that criminal users of the internet spied on its users or superstitiously exchanged info, along with hiding documents/data invisibly inside of the data that makes up a larger image.
Now its just how everybody does business.
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