Facebook is watching you...download your data file.

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Facebook may be tracking your every move online even if you have never been on the site.

Not content with monitoring the movements of its own users, the largest social network in the world is building secret files on the activities of billions of people.

Mark Zuckerburg's company says that is uses this information to target adverts and content based on your preferences, as well as for security purposes.

Facebook account holders are able to download a copy of the file kept on them, which contains detailed records of their activities while logged in.

The privacy of users tracked via-third parties is currently less transparent, with no way of checking exactly what Facebook knows about you.


Facebook, based in Menlo Park, California, uses data gathered from its 1.4 billion daily active users worldwide as a basis for algorithms which link advertising and other materials to a person's online profile.

It can collect data on every element of your digital identity on the network, from your search and Messenger chat history to photos you've uploaded and files sent across its servers.

Facebook also makes use of social media plug-ins and cookies - tracking devices that follow a user's internet activity - to collect data via third-party websites.

Every time you like or share Facebook content or visit sites with Facebook ads and trackers you are being watched, even if you aren't signed in.


Even if you have never entered the Facebook domain, the company is still able to follow your browsing behaviour without you knowing it.

More than 10,000 websites contain invisible trackers, called Pixels, which record information about visitors.

This includes everything from the operating system you use to your IP address and activities on the website during a session.

This gives the firm insights into everything from where you are in the world, who your internet service provider is, the types of sites you like to visit and how long you spend on them.


New Zealand Herald

HOW CAN YOU DOWNLOAD YOUR PERSONAL DATA FILE FROM FACEBOOK?

1. To download your personal data file, click at the top right of your Facebook page and select Settings
2. Click 'Download a copy of your Facebook data' below your General Account Settings
3. Facebook will process a file with all your data since the day you created your account
4. Make sure your email is correct because Facebook will send you an email and notification when your file is ready to download

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Companies really shouldnt have this much control.

 

[DRDNA]

This the biggest reason why I stopped using FB and nuked my account!
A bit over a year ago.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Im getting closer and closer to using a vpn full time.

 

[dorsetknob]

Never had a account there never even considered it ( did consider the Other one that starts with an F and ends with book)

 

[natr0n]

Youtube is now sharing personal data with many agencies. They create profiles for every user. If you look at/create questionable content(truth channels/conspiracy/etc) you are placed on HIGH RISK profile.

They killed literally hundreds of channels other day.

Were living in 1984 for real.

 

[Jetster]

That's nothing. Look at Google. They know what I'm doing before I do it. Buy an analog cell phone and wear a foil hat

 

[dhklopp]

Get used to it. We are the product these days and we're worth billions.

 

[jboydgolfer]

Facebook is for middle-aged women w/ kids to meet up with guys they dated in high school. It's also a great place for me to create a dummy account ,to see how much older the people I went to high school with look than I do

 

[DRDNA]

The upping to 5G and the stuff above and you can see there will be no stopping of the creation of the virtual brain....the reality is too real... and already here..

 

[eidairaman1]

I use fb to just keep up with past friends.

By the way data collection, cough algorithms...

 

[R-T-B]

The upping to 5G and the stuff above and you can see there will be no stopping of the creation of the virtual brain....the reality is too real... and already here..

You know, for a moment I thought I was on a site for people who enjoyed technology, not feared it... 5G is about as related to this as oranges to silicon.

That said, facebook can't know what you don't give them. Case in point: me. Don't have one and never will.

 

[eidairaman1]

You know, for a moment I thought I was on a site for people who enjoyed technology, not feared it... 5G is about as related to this as oranges to silicon.

That said, facebook can't know what you don't give them. Case in point: me. Don't have one and never will.

Since Google Owns Youtube, youtube might be giving Facebook info on what you watch lol, thats the drawback of connectivity.

P.S. I will never be a part of certain things that happened in Ghost in the Shell. "Tinfoil HAT ALERT"

 

[R-T-B]

Since Google Owns Youtube, youtube might be giving Facebook info on what you watch lol, thats the drawback of connectivity.

P.S. I will never be a part of certain things that happened in Ghost in the Shell. "Tinfoil HAT ALERT"

I don't have a youtube and watch maybe one video a month from them...

 

[Toothless]

Someone should make a bot that searches and watches videos like a normal person but it's all for porn. See how Facebook and stuff like that

 

[cadaveca]

Im getting closer and closer to using a vpn full time.

VPN doesn't help when your ISP is retaining all data anyway. Depending on your coutnry, it's law that data of various types must be retained. There is ZERO actual privacy on the internet.

 

[R-T-B]

Someone should make a bot that searches and watches videos like a normal person but it's all for porn. See how Facebook and stuff like that

"What kind of porn does x company prefer?"

 

[eidairaman1]

VPN doesn't help when your ISP is retaining all data anyway. Depending on your coutnry, it's law that data of various types must be retained. There is ZERO actual privacy on the internet.

Yup because its cyberspace

 

[R-T-B]

VPN doesn't help when your ISP is retaining all data anyway. Depending on your coutnry, it's law that data of various types must be retained. There is ZERO actual privacy on the internet.

A VPN would be encrypted so all the data "retained" would be that he used a VPN....

Yup because its cyberspace

No. Cyberspace is not magical or something if you understand it.

 

[Sasqui]

I believe the biggest leak is in cross-scripting between websites. Remember the days when that wasn't allowed?

One method of being "safer" is to use multiple browsers, they do not talk to each other about what you're buying or the porn you're watching.

 

[eidairaman1]

A VPN would be encrypted so all the data "retained" would be that he used a VPN....



No. Cyberspace is not magical or something if you understand it.

Well it can't be controlled by 1 entity like a nations borders. 1 set of International laws would have to be drawn up and agreed upon for "control"

 

[cadaveca]

A VPN would be encrypted so all the data "retained" would be that he used a VPN....

For sure, but also...

connected to a VPN, emails from online-hosted services, and other metadata are retained... by law... depending on country. As such, if they wanted to, and know you are connected to a VPN, they can easily capture that data and decrypt. AFAIk, 4th amendment doesn't really protect you because they are sneaky. It is simply best to take the stance that anything you do is openly retrievable, so you best be wary of what your doing if you are concerned about someone knowing.

 

[Tomgang]

Never used facebook and has no plans for using it in the future.

This just gives me one more reason for not to use facebook.

 

[theFOoL]

This is getting out of hand. Should of deleted my account years ago but now it's not a option as IDK anymore. I don't have any info like bank crap etc. Now I just sit at home waiting for my Botox injection for my leg

 

[R-T-B]

For sure, but also...

connected to a VPN, emails from online-hosted services, and other metadata are retained... by law... depending on country. As such, if they wanted to, and know you are connected to a VPN, they can easily capture that data and decrypt. AFAIk, 4th amendment doesn't really protect you because they are sneaky. It is simply best to take the stance that anything you do is openly retrievable, so you best be wary of what your doing if you are concerned about someone knowing.

Truth. But "they" is not the same as "facebook." You are talking a government level actor.