Re:Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dange...
by lukeschlather on Monday October 05, 2015 @08:41PM
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Well, when you think about it they probably associate users who use the same IP address. From that perspective it's difficult to see how they could avoid using this data. It's like not noticing that two different people called you from the same number.
Re:Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dange...
by TeMPOraL on Monday October 05, 2015 @07:31PM
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Does it now? By Wi-Fi tracking I'm thinking of SSID matching (which are public information), not pinging devices inside a single network.
Your data point about on-but-not-connected Wi-Fi supports both geotracking and SSID tracking. We need more data!
Re:Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dange...
by techdragon on Monday October 05, 2015 @08:12PM
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Facebook harvests a mountain of data about you when you use the new Messenger app. I swear the only purpose it has as a separate app is to be far worse than they think they can get away with the main Facebook app being.
It's probably from the messenger data that they correlated your proximity.
Also in my example, I didn't usually connect to any Wi-Fi because I have LTE. But of course I don't turn off wi-fi when I leave the house so my phone still does network discovery.