Study: Thousands of Companies Are Monitoring Every Facebook User

Breitbart ^ | Jan. 20, 2024 | Lucas Nolan

[chickenlips]

A recent study by Consumer Reports, in collaboration with The Markup, has unveiled the extensive scale of data tracking aimed at Facebook users. Some users in the study were tracked by as many as 7,000 companies.

A recent study from Consumer Reports engaged 709 volunteers who provided archives of their Facebook user data. Astonishingly, Consumer Reports discovered that 186,892 different companies transmitted data about these users to Facebook. On average, data from each participant was shared by 2,230 companies, with some users’ data being shared by over 7,000 companies.

This examination highlighted a lesser-known form of tracking known as server-to-server tracking, where personal data is transferred directly from a company’s servers to Meta’s servers, alongside the more visible method involving Meta tracking pixels on company websites.

Emil Vazquez, a spokesperson for Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, defended the company’s data practices, stating: “We offer a number of transparency tools to help people understand the information that businesses choose to share with us, and manage how it’s used.” However, Consumer Reports identified issues with these tools, including unclear data provider identities and companies that service advertisers often disregarding user opt-out requests.

[Gaffer]

Yes....and it’s difficult for Americans’ privacy....

Several MSM venues have already reported on declassified ODNI reports of the government buying personal information about Americans from commercial entities like phone companies and web search information-gathering companies.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23844477-odni-declassified-report-on-cai-january2022

I remember back under other administrations of reading/hearing reports on how Google had multiple contracts for such.

No reason at all for me to believe it, or its products like Chrome are ‘above board.’

[Elsie]

WE just NOW hearing about this?

NO!

[Elsie]

[Elsie]

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/FIEAAOSw5BZlhVEQ/s-l960.jpg

[Elsie]

A 'one time pad' is the ONLY way that is uncrackable, but requires physical access between both sender and receiver at some point in time.

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In 2010 Bruce Schneier published Cryptography Engineering, which is focused more on how to use cryptography in real systems and less on its internal design.

 

He has also written books on security for a broader audience.

 

In 2000, Schneier published Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World;

in 2003, Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World;

in 2012, Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive; and

in 2015, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World.^[14]

[Elsie]

Can THESE be used to create a one time pad?

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/pdgAAOSwJkBllBVC/s-l1600.png

[AppyPappy]

I never understood people who were concerned about their privacy on FaceBook. The whole point of FB is to make yourself public. I started on Facebook when you needed a college email address to be on it. I was working at a university. FB is designed for people to connect and you have to be public to do that.

[Elsie]

Question: Can letter beads be used as the random number generator to create a one time pad?

 

 

 

AI says...

Generating answers for you…

Yes, letter beads can be used as a random number generator to create a one-time pad. However, it is important to ensure that the beads are truly random and that the selection process is unbiased. This can be achieved by using a large number of beads and mixing them thoroughly before selecting each bead.

Alternatively, you can use an online one-time pad generator such as the one provided by Fourmilab ¹. It generates one-time pads or password lists in a variety of forms and is based on a high-quality pseudorandom sequence generator. You can select the format of the pad and press “Generate” to create the pad in the text box. You can then copy and paste the generated pad into another window to use as you wish.

I hope this helps!

 

 

 

elsie says:

Hint: do NOT think that ANY 'random' number generating program is going to give you an unbreakable answer; espically one that it on line!!!

[Elsie]

They use it in ways that other programs share data.

It’s just easier since it is EVERYWHERE.

[Elsie]

There is a difference between REALLY good and...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy

[Elsie]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Web_of_trust

[AppyPappy]

There are some cheats to using FaceBook

Never use your image as a profile picture. People who create duplicate accounts generally ignore people who don’t have a picture of themselves
If it says Copy and Paste, don’t. Scammers follow these, often using a misspelled word.
Don’t share things you don’t know are true. In Particular, lost pets, found pets, missing persons, politics, etc. Scammers change the image to an advertisement and you get penalized for Spam.
Don’t share memes. Scammers can follow them like bread crumbs.
Don’t post copyrighted material. My sibling stays in FB jail for this.

[Elsie]

Output: Number of keys:  Line length: 
Format: Key length:  Group length: 
Composition: Key text:  Numeric  Word-like  Alphabetic  Gibberish
Letters:   Random separators  Include signatures
Seed:  From clock  User-defined: 
      

Do NOT worry; as no one can see what you've placed in the yellow box.

[mikhailovich]

I-phones are the worst. If it is left on, it listens to our conversations and transmits the data to various advertisers (and God knows who else.)

This is why you will see ads pop up when you are online. Ads with the very, obscure topic you were just discussing with someone. Awnings, RV's, rocking chairs, dry rubs, whatever you were discussing.

I bet it has happened to you. Why is this never discussed or brought up as a concern by people in the media? It is an outright invasion of privacy and should be illegal.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Why does this surprise anyone? Facebook is free. What’s the saying? If you aren’t paying for the product, you’re the product.

[old-ager]

> Google Chrome is a tool, not a site. It doesn’t have any content of its own.

except for this :-)

https://github.com/chromium/chromium

and a lot of people think of Twitter and Tik-Tok as “apps,” not “sites”

[RetiredArmy]

When the kid next to you smacks you in the face with the English Lit book.

[Eleutheria5]

All the more reason to cancel your account with them.

[Elsie]

Like facepalm, only with greater impact.

[CodeToad]

“What’s Facebook ?”

It’s a website where a bunch of aging women want to feel popular.