Re:Backblaze Privacy Update: Third-Party Tracking
by e12e on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @07:14AM
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Yes, this is rather disappointing. It's probably also in breach of GDPR assuming backblaze haven't contacted customers directly, informing them about the nature and detail of leaked data (based on your use of backblaze on X, we see that the following filenames and Metadata was incorrectly handed over to a third party (Facebook)...).
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Re:Backblaze Privacy Update: Third-Party Tracking
by cat199 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @07:33AM
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Wouldn't this also be a GPDR violation by Facebook as well?
Re:Backblaze Privacy Update: Third-Party Tracking
by e12e on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @08:12AM
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Possibly. But Backblaze has an agreement with the user; and they have taken data they need / are justified in handling (filenames, sizes) and leaked them. Google docs wouldn't be liable if I stole your credit-card and put it in a Google doc.
It may be that fb is doing something illegal here too - eg the whole way tracking pixel work seems difficult to square with gdpr - but the tracking pixel/service looks a bit like the drill used to force a lock - another party (like BB) must deploy it. And arguably the purpose is not to "steal" data.