Zuckerberg denies knowledge of Facebook shadow profiles

Re:Zuckerberg denies knowledge of Facebook shadow profiles by lumberjack on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @03:06PM (#16814397)

Equifax may have your bank statements, and whatever sensitive numbers they can collect, but they do not literally have have your inner thoughts, in the same way that Facebook and Google have.

That is an important distinction.

Surveillance like this is harmful, either way. Not just the leaks, but the actual data gathering itself should be criticized. Why is it that during the Equifax leak nobody criticized the data gathering in the first place? It was all about the leak. In this case I am glad that the data gathering is being put into question.

But anyway, my main point is that they are collecting different sets of private data.

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Re:Zuckerberg denies knowledge of Facebook shadow profiles by JoshMnem on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @05:40PM (#16815996)

Are you sure about what data those companies have? Example: it seems like you can't sign in to Starbucks wifi any more (via Google) without giving a real email address that is verified through Experian's API. There is surely more going on than consumers know.

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Re:Zuckerberg denies knowledge of Facebook shadow profiles by UncleMeat on Thursday April 12, 2018 @05:34PM (#16825117)

The cost of equifax losing my data is far greater than the cost of fbook losing my data.

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