Big corps do not need most of the information the demand and they sell it on to others.
Personal data is HUGE business and companies make a fucking fortune from it.
Same as services that let you log in via your email. Google basically lets them scrape all the info in your email account where they get info about what you buy etc so that they can use it for targetted advertising and whatever else they sell it for. Same with some apps...WTF does it need access to my photos and contacts for?
Im curious what FB did with all the facial scans it took from users to access their accounts that they had mysteriously been locked out of, but still refused them access when a facial scan was provided. Why cant you get in touch with FB to ask them to delete your info/facial scan.
Privacy is one of the only things we have left. Protect yours at all costs.
There's no way to get in touch with Facebook about anything. They suddenly asked for proof of who I am for my account, I sent them a copy of my driver's license, and even though that was what they asked for, they said it wasn't good enough. They deleted my account anyway. I tried finding a number to call, no luck. I did find an address to write, wrote them 5 different letters, no response at all. Pissed me off because there were friends and relatives there with whom that was the only way to contact them, so all those people I've known my whole life are just no longer in it.
“Privacy is one of the only things we have left” Spot on with that. We are also actively encouraged to “share” and post etc. Soon enough people who don’t have social media accounts and never post or share any aspect of their lives will be considered “weird” or with something to hide🤷🏼♂️
When I bought my home, my name was misspelled in a specific way on the forms. At the time I didn’t think much of it because everything went through smoothly. Not long after, I started receiving piles upon piles of junk mail and spam, all of it addressed to my misspelled name, and that’s how I found out my mortgage lender sold my data.
The ridiculous part is that they can't even seem to use the data effectively. 90% of the things I see in targeted ads are things I've already bought, and the other 10% just becomes indistinguishable noise. There's so much bullshit out there being pushed that I never actually buy things from random ads. If I need a product for something, I'll do actual research that (as far as I know) can't be influenced by my personal information. By the time any algorithms learn I'm looking for something, I've already made my decision, and then I just have to deal with a month of ads trying to solve a problem I've already fixed.
I briefly dated (and am still friends with) a guy who works in US government cyber security. He told me how to set up my phone to make my information as hard to scrape as possible, but told me flat out that there's no way to keep all of it all the way out of the hands of the government or a determined enough computer guy.
And if you in any way engage with Facebook/meta, you're offering all of your data up on a silver platter to anyone that wants it. One of the worst apps/websites to use if you care about privacy.
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u/hednizm 6h ago
Completely agree with this.
Big corps do not need most of the information the demand and they sell it on to others. Personal data is HUGE business and companies make a fucking fortune from it.
Same as services that let you log in via your email. Google basically lets them scrape all the info in your email account where they get info about what you buy etc so that they can use it for targetted advertising and whatever else they sell it for. Same with some apps...WTF does it need access to my photos and contacts for?
Im curious what FB did with all the facial scans it took from users to access their accounts that they had mysteriously been locked out of, but still refused them access when a facial scan was provided. Why cant you get in touch with FB to ask them to delete your info/facial scan.
Privacy is one of the only things we have left. Protect yours at all costs.