Re:The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores
by chaps on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:42AM
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How is this even remotely the same thing? For one, HN doesn't use pixels to communicate directly with tiktok, Facebook, etc. And what does publicly accessible data have to do with this?
Re:The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores
by nerdponx on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:43AM
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1. Search queries are not metadata.
2. Why is sharing metadata with unknown arbitrary 3rd parties OK? Not all metadata is or should be public.
Re:The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores
by Spooky23 on Friday August 25, 2023 @04:29PM
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My point, poorly made, is that the statements made by companies sharing this data don’t mean what they appear to at first reading.
Even in the silly HN example, you can analyze referrer data and build profiles of people, without any cooperation on HNs part.
Hacker News is the same way. HN does not send your HN handle information to any third party. That said, your posts and comments include certain metadata, including your HN handle and a link to account metadata as per the privacy policy. This data is public and may be accessed by third parties.