What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook, and Why?

Re:What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebo... by arkh on Monday April 16, 2018 @06:54PM (#16853659)

The difference is this: a website tracking you while you're there is just using their own data.

FB, Google, twitter get data from all the websites which make the error of using their scripts: be it analytics, social buttons or "login with whatever". Everytime you use assets hosted by a third party they get free data about your users. Every time you use a third party service you're giving data about your users.

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Re:What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebo... by Symbiote on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @02:18AM (#16855967)

I don't think that's the case.

Facebook's ad/privacy page told me KLM had shared data with Facebook. I don't remember agreeing to that, I'm diligent at unticking the box or whatever, but in any case, I doubt it only goes one way.

KLM's website includes at least 15 trackers.

I'm looking forward to 25 May. I will write to all these companies, and demand that they stop sharing my data.

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Re:What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebo... by Freak_NL on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @03:16AM (#16856206)

Does the GDPR give us the tools to do that?

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Re:What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebo... by christudor on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @04:32AM (#16856528)

I suspect most big companies will have teams set up whose only job is to respond to GDPR-related requests.

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