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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Any lawyer interested in a class action suit, sounds to me like invasion of privacy or maybe stalking.
““even if you’ve never registered an account on the site”
How?”
They have a side agreement with non-FB sites. You visit that site, they collect your IP address etc and give it to FB for money. SO even if you have no FB, they get your surfing info.
BTTT
But how do you check it?
“My life is an open Facebook.”
Your whole life? Doubtful. Pix of you in the shower and on the toilet or it ain’t true.
Okay, not a completely open book.
hmmm.....so Breitbart intends to bury Zuckerberg under tens of millions of requests for personal data. Interesting strategy.
NoScript and uBlock Origin are your friends. (And keep those third-party cookies disabled.)
sharing pro-life, neuroscience, nc, wv, Marine Corps news is what they know about me. It’s also on my blogs. I don’t have to worry, I will be sealed before the wrath of God is unleashed.
I had a bat in my house last week. I told my neighbor about it in a Facebook message only - not on the public part of my page. The next time I went to YouTube, there was quite a large ad that said “Bats in Your House?” with a listing of an exterminator with an Ohio area code! (I live in Ohio)
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