Thanks to Facebook, Your Cellphone Company Is Watching You More Closely Than Ever

guest · May 20, 2019

Thanks to Facebook, Your Cellphone Company Is Watching You More Closely Than Ever
May 20, 2019
https://theintercept.com/2019/05/20/facebook-data-phone-carriers-ads-credit-score/

A confidential Facebook document reviewed by The Intercept shows that the social network courts carriers, along with phone makers — some 100 different companies in 50 countries — by offering the use of even more surveillance data, pulled straight from your smartphone by Facebook itself.

Offered to select Facebook partners, the data includes not just technical information about Facebook members’ devices and use of Wi-Fi and cellular networks, but also their past locations, interests, and even their social groups. This data is sourced not just from the company’s main iOS and Android apps, but from Instagram and Messenger as well.

Facebook’s cellphone partnerships are particularly worrisome because of the extensive surveillance powers already enjoyed by carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile
An Inside Look at “Actionable Insights”
Actionable Insights was announced last year in an innocuous, easy-to-miss post on Facebook’s engineering blog. [...]
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Despite Facebook’s repeated assurances that user information is completely anonymized and aggregated, the Actionable Insights materials undermine this claim.

Facebook here seems to be allowing companies to reach you on the basis of a sort of unofficial credit score, a gray market determination of whether you’re a good consumer based on how much you and your habits resemble a vast pool of strangers.
When asked if Actionable Insights facilitates the targeting of ads on the basis of creditworthiness, the spokesperson replied, “No, there isn’t an instance where this is used.”
It’s difficult to reconcile this claim with the fact that Facebook’s own promotional materials tout how Actionable Insights can enable a company to do exactly this
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Reality · May 20, 2019

Despite Facebook’s repeated assurances that user information is completely anonymized and aggregated, the Actionable Insights materials undermine this claim.
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I wonder how many lies FB has repeatedly told since the day it started up.

zapjb · May 21, 2019

Them to us: Sue us. IF IF IF you win you'll get pennies to our Billions & we'll still do what we want so **** you.

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