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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2018 9:19 am
 


Title: Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information
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Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2018-09-27 09:17:08
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2018 9:20 am
 


$1:
You might assume that you could go to your Facebook profile and look at your �contact and basic info� page to see what email addresses and phone numbers are associated with your account, and thus what advertisers can use to target you. But as is so often the case with this highly efficient data-miner posing as a way to keep in contact with your friends, it�s going about it in a less transparent and more invasive way.

Facebook is not content to use the contact information you willingly put into your Facebook profile for advertising. It is also using contact information you handed over for security purposes and contact information you didn�t hand over at all, but that was collected from other people�s contact books, a hidden layer of details Facebook has about you that I�ve come to call �shadow contact information.� I managed to place an ad in front of Alan Mislove by targeting his shadow profile. This means that the junk email address that you hand over for discounts or for shady online shopping is likely associated with your account and being used to target you with ads.


Not creepy at all. 8O


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2018 11:49 am
 


Not surprising either.


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 28, 2018 10:35 am
 


Facebook reveals massive security breach affecting 50 MILLION users and says it has logged 90 million users out of their accounts as a 'security measure'

Facebook on Friday admitted a security breach that affected 50 million users
Firm logged about 90 million users out of their account as a security measure

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... users.html


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