Re:The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores
by llm_nerd on Friday August 25, 2023 @10:40AM
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It isn't clickbait at all. It's a serious issue.
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.
> 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.