The second day of Zuckerberg’s mega roast wasn’t easy for him. Facebook CEO may have scored some sympathy votes by revealing that his data was also compromised in the Cambridge Analytica Scandal, but there were some hard questions as well.
One of them was about Facebook’s data collection from people who never created a Facebook account, never signed a consent or privacy agreement.
Earlier this year, a Belgium court ruled that Facebook’s tracking of non-users with the help of social plugins and cookies breaks privacy laws.
New Mexico’s representative Ben Ray Lujan asked Zuckerberg if Facebook maintains a detailed profile of people who never signed up for Facebook.
Zuckerberg didn’t say yes but explained that some data related to non-Facebook users is collected for security reasons and to prevent mass scrapping of user data on the platform.
Recently, it was known that an issue in Facebook’s search engine allowed anyone to scrap publicly available information of over 2 billion Facebook users.
Lujan also asked Zuckerberg how many data points they have on Facebook and non-Facebook users. The CEO replied that he doesn’t know.
When asked that the term “shadow profiles” is used to refer profiles of non-Facebook users, Zuckerberg said he is not familiar with that.
So, how can a non-Facebook user opt-out of the data collection?
Source: https://fossbytes.com/facebook-data-collection-non-facebook-users-shadow-profiles/
Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
Yes, I used to see a link to facebook shown when loading a web page of some of my daily access to websites. I was particularly distressed [as a ¨Non-User¨ of facebook] to see the same facebook link when accessing the web page of my bank in the UK!
What does facebook do their, and equally importantly, why does financial institutions in the UK allow the presence of facebook when bank customers are accessing what is supposed to be a ¨secure https¨ ?
Regards
Ronnie [another Ronnie]
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