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Re:What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebo... by rdiddly on Monday April 16, 2018 @05:51PM (#16853158)
We know the answers to these, don't we?

1. There is no way to delete it. Facebook owns it forever.

2. Owning more data is better, for selling ads, for studying trends and behavior, for purposes as-yet ill-defined, and just cuz. And they don't sell data, they give it away.

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Re:What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebo... by smsm42 on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:22PM (#16853890)
> And they don't sell data, they give it away.

I don't think they sell or give away tracking data. All the data disclosures so far has been about social graph data, which is very different data set. Detailed traffic logs from network like FB would be something that is very hard to collect, wouldn't make sense for them to give such a valuable resource out for free.

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Re:What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebo... by rdiddly on Monday April 16, 2018 @10:12PM (#16854868)
Yeah, probably right, I'm just sort of making the point that "it's always worse than you think" and/or that the worst-case scenario is probably always the correct one where Facebook data collection is concerned.
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