Posted on 01/21/2024 4:30:17 PM PST by 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.
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“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.”
My wife ended our short FB trip about 10+ years ago.
We are both retired and often go online with our phones or chromebook while sitting about 8-10’ apart. Things we had mentioned the day before online or near it, ended up in ads as you noted above. Seldom are both of us ever on the same site.
Now, we both have new android phones and a new Chromebook and 2 internet/service providers.
She is addicted to Kindle, and I use my Chromebook for this site and a handful of sites.
We share no links and often what we discuss orally shows up as ads or on line.
So it isn’t just FB collecting our data like a minnie NSA!
4 I smelled a very dangerous aspect of Facebook a long time ago. Never signed up for it and never will.
The same with Tiktok. RED ALL OVER!!.
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