Facebook shares your personal information that you have never submitted to social network with its advertisers. Of course you can't delete them from their files.
A document (PDF), published by researchers at Northeastern University and Princeton University, examines how ad targeting works on Facebook.
Let's see what the researchers found:
Say you have a mobile phone number and a landline number and only posted the first one on your Facebook profile. If an advertiser has the mobile number on base data, it can use it to target you with ads on Facebook. If the advertiser also has your landline number, they could target you with ads using that as well.
Is it possible to have it, if you have not shared your Facebook number?
You may not have given it to Facebook, but if you gave your station number to a friend who is also on the social network and has saved it in his address book (which he has access to Facebook), then he can associate it with your profile.
Such as he says the Gizmodo, Facebook did not previously admit to doing so. In addition, if you give the social network a mobile phone number only to authenticate two factors, that number ends up again in the advertisers' lists even though they are not in public view on Facebook.
Of course, all of the above are not among Facebook's biggest personal breaches privacy, but prove once again that the company does not care at all about your privacy.
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I'm not impressed. We have seen it as certain for years.
So does Google obviously.
In this case, however, Facebook will not withstand the pressure and will soon become the arm of the company that will exist and will be the result of the merger of Microsoft and Google. Arm where techniques and technologies that could not (s.s. did not want to be exact) be embraced by Ms and G by putting a "front" to do the dirty… research and application. Facebook.
Half a minute though. This reminds in part the trunk of the script Mr Robot and the reported E Corp?
Maybe. Maybe it was a prelude to the masses. A "hare" scenario for what follows. Not in the long run.
Maybe not again, but find my child, we also have that George Orwell, who had said it with N and S, years ago…