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META data collection - a post from Mastodon
from nuko147@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 23 Jul 03:25
https://lemmy.world/post/33339970

Linux@mstdn.ca - As a Meta employee, I can honestly tell you what we know, and I do not know how we obtain all of it.

Your full name
Your full home address
Your phone number
Your e-mail
Your government ID
Your consumer report history * The name of every family member
The name of every friend
The name of their family / friends
Your marital status
If you are faithful to your partner
Your work history (all of it)
Your education history (all of it)
Your travel history (going back years)
Your birth gender
Your gender ID
Your sexuality
Your sexual preferences
How often you’re having sex
Your partner’s details (all the above)
Your political ideology
Your involvement with any group
If you protest, we know
If you’re unhappy, we know

The amount of information we collect on you is insane. And we do it all for supposedly marketing and yes, we help the government since they have access to all this too.

So when someone says they want to avoid META or GOOGLE - respect.

#privacy

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listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io on 23 Jul 08:12 next collapse

if i had an account decades ago (real names only era), and deleted every post (manually) and my account when a .edu wasn’t going to be required anymore, and I currently use noscript + uBlock origin, apple devices with Brave, how much of this stuff do you think the company has?

Do you think my name shows up in other people’s accounts even though I don’t have an account?

aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 Jul 10:35 next collapse

I believe they use phone numbers as another vector. So if someone has you in their contacts, it will link you back if they have faecesbook installed

railcar@midwest.social on 23 Jul 11:01 collapse

Unfortunately your less cautious cohorts can reveal much of this about you as well. Privacy is a deep rabbit hole. Do what you can, try to educate your peers.

Also, link to the original post: mstdn.ca/@Linux/114899148717382605

burgerchurgarr@lemmus.org on 23 Jul 12:03 next collapse

Would be interesting to knowing GDPR has any impact at all on this

tarknassus@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 13:09 next collapse

How often you’re having sex

Can they… help with improving this? Asking for a friend.

schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de on 23 Jul 14:50 collapse

so which is it, are you asking for a friend or for help improving this? :D

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 23 Jul 14:44 next collapse

The problem is, even if you don’t have an account in Fakebook, it is enogh if an family member or a friend has one, because FB has access to their mail and telephone lists where you appears. Apart of this there are a lot of webservices which share data with Facebook, like some hosts, cloudservices, imgur and a lot of others, perfect to profile everyone.

sxan@midwest.social on 23 Jul 16:09 collapse

This is why I don’t interact with family or friends. My mom doesn’t know my email address.

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 23 Jul 16:15 collapse

Better so, but it’s not the only privacy hole used by Zuckerbot.

hperrin@lemmy.ca on 23 Jul 23:32 next collapse

Even worse for me. I used to work for Facebook, so they know my social security number and have run a background check on me.

SteakSneak@retrolemmy.com on 31 Jul 23:14 collapse

Well I wish I could get people off what’s app. It’s the default way to message people where I’m from 😭

nuko147@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 04:57 collapse

Me too. But i convised my family members and 2 close friends to install it, ans we talk through signal. It’s a start.