But most people won't be doing that. For most people, it'll send their actual scores most of the time.
Saying that "they don't send your actual score" is the kind of sophistry that's technically correct but also wildly inaccurate in actual cases.
> only surprising part of this story is that they managed to find a stupid pr person who gave a bad quote
They did not do anything wrong and they don't do what the article implies. The response is 100% correct and when confronted with 'what about this' they explained it like the non issue it is.
Its HTTP GET parameters. Not for specific user but for filter range, that's it.
The article is prime example why people don't trust the news.
Your interactions with the site are visible through these third parties. The college crows that they're don't provide PII, but the whole point of tracking pixels is that those services already know precisely who you are. Facebook, Tiktok, et al have tracking pixels precisely because it allows them to farm more information to fill out the profile of a user.
Only the technically ignorant or dystopian don't see a profound issue with this.
There are 2 reasons they are doing that, they actually think it's valuable data for tracking, analytics & finding similar profiles on sociale media; and that makes the concern valid. Or they just didn't think about it, and send over as much data as possible
You can complain that the way the world works is broken & should be fixed, but you can't redefine words to make your argument.
I would rather fb get nothing, but as far as data sharing and ad tracking goes, this seems fairly standard. The only surprising part of this story is that they managed to find a stupid pr person who gave a bad quote