News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Be... by mtgx on Friday February 16, 2018 @11:47AM (#16393619)
Facebook was tracking users even if they didn't click the Like button. This has nothing to do with page view tracking.

And they were tracking even non-Facebook users this way. There's zero consent here no matter how you cut it.

Worse yet, Facebook did this for years, and in the first years it swore it doesn't do that, and when they were caught doing it they said it was "just a bug"...twice.

Facebook has 0% credibility at this point. Just look how they're ruining people's trust in 2FA security, too, now (although if they end-up ruining the trust in SMS 2FA, that wouldn't be too bad of an outcome actually...).

This is a good article (although not complete, and only until 2014) on Facebook's awful, no-good, history of lying and tracking users without their consent:

https://www.propublica.org/article/its-complicated-facebooks...

Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Be... by wtfstatists on Friday February 16, 2018 @03:20PM (#16395729)
There's zero consent here no matter how you cut it.

Thats not true. You implicity consent to usage policy of that website which then gave permission to FB. Ofcourse GDPR makes it illegel but until May 25 its not.

Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Be... by monocasa on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:01PM (#16396207)
Is it possible to even view the usage policy on one of these sites without hitting a page that loads one of these like buttons first?
Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Be... by netgusto on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:44PM (#16395367)
2FA notif scam was the last straw for me. Just deleted my account. So long and thanks for all the fish!