On Facebook, Instagram and the Whatsapp, which are the Meta core services you are the product, but you probably already know that. Many have said it. You also know that for all of the above Companies we have read privacy scandals.
Meta's privacy practices are particularly problematic. At the moment we can safely say due to the size of the user database that the company is the largest non-governmental collector of personal information in history.
Meta, through its various applications knows more about your personality than you can imagine. From seemingly simple details like your phone number and email to very annoying ones like your location history, your sexual orientation, your relationship status but also a lot of biometric information. Meta has it all.
If you use Facebook, Meta has a complete history of where you've been for at least the last year. Once you sign up for any of Meta's products, you are tracked indefinitely. Facebook, for example, tracks you even when you're not using one of its products. It does this through data sharing agreements with hundreds of other tech companies whose apps you use.
Off facebook activity lets you see and check what facebook knows about you through third party websites and apps.
From music players, programs tours, game apps, eBook readers to caller ID apps, most of the software installed on your device shares your data with Meta.
This means the company can determine with terrifying accuracy your taste in music, books, the gamea, the websites you visit, what you do online and how you interact with technology as a whole.
Don't you believe it?
Log in to Facebook, and do click in the menu bar at the top right corner of your app screen
Scroll down to find the "Settings".
Go even further and find the "Off-Facebook Activity" or Off-Facebook Activity. (https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity)
Click on Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity and you will be asked for the password you use.
You will see and be able to manage the list of applications that share your personal data with Facebook.
