What Facebook knows about you, even if you do not. 38 facts

2018-03-03 18:50

What Facebook knows about you, even if you do not. 38 facts
Facebook can track your movements online even if you have never visited the website of this social network

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Facebook can track your every movement online, even if you have never visited, reports Rus.Media.

That the largest social network in the world creates secret files on the activities of billions of people.

Company Mark Zuckenberg says that uses this information to clvo advertising and generating content which is based on our preferences and also to ensure safety.

Owners of accounts on Facebook can download a copy of the file, which contains all information about them, but the privacy of user is being tracked by third parties is open to question.

This means that there is only one way to see what information Facebook owns, is to create your own account.

So, to access the file with your data in Facebook, you can go to “Settings” and then clicking “Download a copy of your Facebook data”.

A reporter for the New Zealand Herald Nick Wham decided to test what Facebook knows about him, and was surprised at the result.

In 2010, Facebook became the first social network that gave users the ability to upload files containing their personal histories on the service.

Among the information collected by the company on the reporter, was a mobile recording of an old video of his mother, who took Ugama in his first day at school.

He also came across scanned copies of leases, account for his domestic services, snapshots of Bank transfers, as well as more banal chat logs and all different story site.

For my work Facebook uses data collected from 1.4 billion active users from all over the world as the basis for algorithms that associate advertising and other materials with the online profile of a person.

In particular, this social network may collect information about all activities on the Internet, ranging from search and chat history in Messenger and ending with the uploaded photos and files, and sent to his servers.

In addition, Facebook uses the plug-ins and cookies – the tools that monitor user activity on the Internet, to collect data via third-party web sites.

Every time you put layk, share content to Facebook or visit sites using the application this social network, watching you.

Even if you’ve never visited the site Facebook, the company can still track your activity braiser without your knowledge.

More than 10 thousand web sites consist of invisible trackers that are called pixels. They record information about what operating system you use, your IP address, activity on the web site you undertake during the visit.

This allows the company to know everything, starting with where you are, who is your Internet service provider what types of sites you like and how much time you spend on their visit.

Concern activity tracking social network and the handling of confidential information already attracted a Facebook company to legal liability.

In February 2018, the Belgian court decided to stop the tracing activities of the Belgian Internet users, who do not have social network account or to penalize the company for 250 000 euros per day.

In contrast, Facebook believes that cookies and pixels are used in accordance with the technological standards.

“We have built a team of people who focus on privacy protection, from engineers to designers, and these tools allow people to choose and control,” said Facebook.