Facebook Admits To Tracking Users, Non-Users Off-Site (theguardian.com)
Facebook said in a blog post yesterday that they tracked users and non-users across websites and apps for three main reasons: providing services directly, securing the company's own site, and "improving our products and services." The statement comes as the company faces a U.S. lawsuit over a controversial facial recognition feature launched in 2011. The Guardian reports: "When you visit a site or app that uses our services, we receive information even if you're logged out or don't have a Facebook account. This is because other apps and sites don't know who is using Facebook," Facebook's product management director, David Baser, wrote. "Whether it's information from apps and websites, or information you share with other people on Facebook, we want to put you in control -- and be transparent about what information Facebook has and how it is used."
But the company's transparency has still not extended to telling non-users what it knows about them -- an issue Zuckerberg also faced questions over from Congress. Asked by Texas representative Gene Green whether all information Facebook holds about a user is in the file the company offers as part of its "download your data" feature, Zuckerberg had responded he believed that to be the case. Privacy campaigner Paul-Olivier Dehaye disagreed, noting that, even as a Facebook user, he had been unable to access personal data collected through the company's off-site tracking systems. Following an official subject access request under EU law, he told MPs last month, Facebook had responded that it was unable to provide the information.
But the company's transparency has still not extended to telling non-users what it knows about them -- an issue Zuckerberg also faced questions over from Congress. Asked by Texas representative Gene Green whether all information Facebook holds about a user is in the file the company offers as part of its "download your data" feature, Zuckerberg had responded he believed that to be the case. Privacy campaigner Paul-Olivier Dehaye disagreed, noting that, even as a Facebook user, he had been unable to access personal data collected through the company's off-site tracking systems. Following an official subject access request under EU law, he told MPs last month, Facebook had responded that it was unable to provide the information.
whatever u got.
After this news spreads he'll have to spend way more than 7 mill to protect that pasty pudgy face.
http://disinfo.com/2018/04/it-takes-over-7-million-dollars-a-year-to-keep-people-from-punching-mark-zuckerberg/
I don't care what other people do.
I don't remember clicking that authorize cookies thing for Facebook. But I do just click yes to them all since the internet can function without cookies.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/
Facebook is labeled as a life-essential service.
By whom??
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
The word is STALKING. It is illegal in the real world and should be illegal in the online world as well. I leave your site (or never use it) and you shouldn't be allowed to STALK me.
Are watching you. Hmmm... What's that at the top of /.?
and "improving our products and services."
Of course this primarily refers to the products and services they offer to advertisers.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Facebook could have distributed a free "please track me everywhere" browser add-on that added some flag to the http session so that their users were identified as such.
With a bit of crypto, you could even make this so it didn't leak Facebook membership to third-party sites (for example, by providing an encryption key which Facebook can/cannot actually decrypt). Then everything gets sent to Facebook, but for the people who opt out, it's encrypted with a key associated with no known decryption key, and basically useless.
Also, I think Facebook has the resources to support more than one major browser.
This discrimination problem is a problem manufactured out of their own indolence, to their own convenience.
...along with: "The check is in the mail"; "of course I'll respect you in the morning"; and "I promise I won't cum in your mouth" is..."(our only goal is) improving our products and services."
Unless that is Yiddish for: "I just want more money!", in which case - yeah.
I think you mean Emperor Trump. "Comrades" are lefties, David Brock.
I, for one, prefer "His Imperial and Royal Majesty Donald I, By the Grace of God and the Constitutions of the Empire, Emperor of the Americans, King of Canada, Mediator of the Mexican Confederation, Protector of the Confederation of Panama, Co-Prince of Cuba."
... for the EU as we can start using them as a cashcow driving them bankrup. It's a win-win situation.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
This has been known for years. FB was convicted multiple times for these practices in Europe.
What hardly ever comes up in the news or comments is that every website that puts FB-hosted 'like' buttons on their pages is complicit in all of this.
Note: all other social media buttons on webpages perform the same 'service'.
If it makes you feel better, you're typically called "inventory," not a product. You know, hope that helps.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I would say that tracking of non-users violates GDPR in several ways, hope Facebook has 4% of revenue at the ready to donate to the EU.
So we should just stop visiting all sites that support facebook login, (like slashdot) all companies that have a facebook page. That is the only way we can make sure facebook does not build a shadow profile of non users/
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
This is a lie Zuck chirped on Capital Hill, that users (now we know non users as well) are tracked when their Not on FB for `secutity`.... WTF does FB security have to do with non users not on the FB platform.... Nothing. When youre caught in a lie, all testimony becomes suspect.
Facebook Cookie Tumbler is more what I'm after. You toss your cookie into a pool every couple of seconds and get another one that someone else used for a couple clicks.
Poison their data pool while you're at it.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
That's disgusting. Can't we just shoot him with an artillery piece like they do in North Korea?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Nothing substantial and just fluff and filler?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
They are saying that we non Facebook users are being tracked so they can provide us services that we don't use? They are saying that they are tracking non Facebook users to protect their security? All of us need to be tracked so they can be secure? Improving services by collecting data on users that don't use their site? They violate our privacy so that they can provide stuff to other users in order to make a profit?
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
This is a logical fallacy. The key to the fallacy is the word Americans. It indicates that all Americans that disagree view themselves as non-leftists.
Obviously this is identity politics calling itself out. There are some americans that disagree with some people and they call those that they disagree with right wing and white supremacist and racist.
There are racists and supremacist people on both sides. There are women that think they are the superior gender. There are blacks that think they are a superior race. The same goes for whites and males.
You proved you participate in identity politics while condemning identity politics.
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
Careful what you wish for, it might come true. The last thing I'd want is more nanny state hand holding with government-approved content allowed only. If I wanted that I could've kept my TV.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
What kind of artillery piece and shell are we talking about here? I'm thinking a W48 shell out of a 155mm Howitzer would do. You know, just to be sure.
Time to offend someone
Are you the same guy that berated me for there not being assault rifles available in the US?
What matters is that you DO it, not what you do it with. Jeesh, people, focus!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
..and throw away the key.
Facebook == CANCER
Are you the same guy that berated me for there not being assault rifles available in the US?
No that wouln't be me. .223 or 7.62x39 rounds). Especially the complaints that they are only good for killing people or that they are weapons of war. For years I used a SKS for deer hunting (AK predecessor shoots the same round) and it is very effective for putting a deer in the freezer. I have a buddy who goes out prairie dog hunting in SD on his parent's property with an AR platform gun a couple of times a year, I have other buddies who go out coyote hunting with ARs. These aren't the type of people you hear about making the news as they, like myself, are responsible owners. We don't sit there and fantasize that we will be the lone survivors of some civilization ending event or defending our selves from our own government. Hell with firearms like those we even realize that they would be ineffective for defending our home from a random intruder. We have all had quite a bit of training on the proper care, use, handling, and storage of them as well, which far too many people seem to lack. However the things those guns mostly shoot are empty cans at our various properties up in the north woods. However I do have one friend who is someone who should not own a gun yet owns a Frankenstein AR he built from parts and an 80% receiver because he thinks he needs it to protect himself from the government or that society will collapse in about 3 months.
While I am fairly pro gun, I'm not one of those crazies that thinks that everyone should own a full auto M14. That said I do disagree with a lot of the hysteria about intermediate powered semi-automatic rifles (think semi-auto AKs, ARs, SKSes or other guns that shoot
Also it is still possible to get a real fully auto weapon legally in the US, they are just gong to be expensive, old, a bitch to find, and an overall pain in the ass to own given what you have to agree to.
Time to offend someone
Don't you think that limiting access by requiring afew extra hoops to jump through would better protect your right to own those weapons in the future?
Would you be averse to a law making it illegal to carry a loaded weapon in a ready to fire state, outside of a narrow set of circumstances?
Cheap storage VM.
Actually, I thought Reagan would make a fine king, although I was dubious about "Ronald I". You left out "Defender of the Seas" or some such phrase, BTW. Any king of the US past, say, 1890, needs something like that in his title.
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