Re:Ask HN: What would you have asked Mark Zuckerburg?
by plmpsu on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @05:37PM
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Is Facebook collecting or storing data related to persons who have not agreed to Facebook's ToS and who have no Facebook account?
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Re:Ask HN: What would you have asked Mark Zuckerburg?
by cbm-vic-20 on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @05:50PM
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I do not have a Facebook account, though friends have uploaded pictures of me, and now my name comes up for tagging suggestions on other pictures. Facebook recognizes me, and knows my name, identifying me, even though I've never agreed to any ToS.
Re:Ask HN: What would you have asked Mark Zuckerburg?
by aviv on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @05:46PM
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No doubt. Every load of their Like button and Comments widget on millions of sites is saved somewhere, building a nice graph of all the pages you ever visited from a particular IP and probably a cookie the widget saves.
Re:Ask HN: What would you have asked Mark Zuckerburg?
by plmpsu on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @05:51PM
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Given all the talk and waving around of the Facebook ToS in the hearing, it would have been nice to have this question asked.
Re:Ask HN: What would you have asked Mark Zuckerburg?
by bobcat9 on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @10:44PM
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Certainly. Facebook runs ads outside of just their own site, so they have to track as many folks as possible. Whether they're tracking PII of non FB users though is (hopefully) unlikely.
Re:Ask HN: What would you have asked Mark Zuckerburg?
by enzolovesbacon on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @05:48PM
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I would have asked this too (aka shadow profiles).
It's sad that it looks like the senators weren't even aware of this, or maybe some were but couldn't phrase in layman's terms.
Re:Ask HN: What would you have asked Mark Zuckerburg?
by forgot-my-pw on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @06:28PM
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He admitted that facebook used to collect your friends' data too, but they stopped doing that.