Facebook has a file on you: Even if you don’t have an account, if you’re online, they track you through third-party activity
(Natural News) It seems as though the more we find out about Facebook and how the company operates behind closed doors, the more America resembles the fictional world created by George Orwell in his famous book 1984. In addition to seeking out conservative users and censoring their content, Facebook also collects personal information from everyone on the Internet, regardless of whether or not they have a Facebook account.
As Business Insider reported back in May of 2016, “For the first time, Facebook will use information about people who don’t have accounts on the social network to show them ads on other websites through its Audience Network.” Prior to this, the social media site only showed ads to people who had accounts based solely on information they collected from their Facebook activity. However, for the past two years, Facebook has been collecting data on everyone on the Internet using cookies, plugins and other pieces of code in order to show more ads, and, in turn, generate more profit.
If you were able to gain the courage to check, chances are you would be absolutely shocked at how much information Facebook already has on you. In a recent articlepublished on NZHerald.co.nz, author Nick Whigham went into detail on the things he discovered after downloading a data cache containing all of the information that Facebook had on file about him and his personal life. (Related: Read about Facebook’s plan to spy on users through their own smartphone cameras to analyze their facial expressions.)
“It included scanned copies of lease forms from a previous rental property I must’ve sent to my buddies over Messenger, my current tenant ledger report, an old monthly billing statement for my home broadband, screen shots of banking transfers and seemingly endless web pages of all the banal conversations I have ever had on the platform,” Whigham explained, adding that while it’s one thing to know that Facebook collects your personal information, it’s something entirely different to discover things in a data cache that even you yourself had forgotten about. (Related: Julian Assange has admitted that Facebook is nothing but a massive spying machine.)
Based on these pieces of information that Whigham discovered Facebook had on him, it’s easy to see how the social media site could use the data to their advantage. Perhaps the monthly billing statement and the banking transfers could be used to get a general idea of how much money Whigham had coming in, for instance, and maybe the cached conversations were used to acquire information regarding places he had traveled to, personal interests, his general attitudes and beliefs, and so on and so forth.
Over the past week or so, Facebook has found itself wrapped up in what is arguably one of the company’s largest scandals since its inception back in 2004. After it was revealed that the research firm Cambridge Analytica collected the personal information of 50 million Facebook users to determine voting patterns based on personality without the users’ knowledge or consent, a #DeleteFacebook campaign kicked off on Twitter, urging users to get rid of their accounts for good.
As it turns out, Facebook is already starting to experience the financial consequences of this campaign, with _Newsweek _reporting that “Facebook shares dropped by more than six percent, slashing over $30 billion from the company’s valuation.” Even Mark Zuckerberg, one of the wealthiest individuals in the entire country, is feeling the effects – according to Forbes, his personal net worth has declined by about $5 billion.
Facebook had better rethink the way that it does business and put an end to their ongoing surveillance of unsuspecting Internet users; otherwise, they will continue to lose credibility, and the profits will drop right along with it.
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So it's not that tragic. I have stopped using FB some months ago personally and only have to use it for my job, but I don't think, that even these data leakage stuff will hurt FB a lot, since everyone and their grandmother already know, that they are living a public life, since FB hit the internet.
Hi Mike, happy to see you here!
Thank you! It's good to see that we have fans here as well :)
Of course, thats the problem with Facebook and Google! And thats why I have moved to Steemit! :) Welcome to the future guys <3
It's not just Facebook, it's Twitter as well. These social media sites were created to do what they are doing, data collection and opinion influence. Please see the following posts explaining one way social media collects your data, and the storage facilities built to house all of our data. Especially the second post is interesting because every word you write can help establish your psychological profile. It's just a very small example. Also @maxigan, @corbettreport are excellent resources for more on this.
https://steemit.com/facebook/@somethinfishy/facebook-permaculture-because-our-online-footprint-is-stored-permanently
https://steemit.com/internetprivacy/@somethinfishy/data-miners-influencers-and-your-psychology-social-media-sites-and-more
Hi Mike, I have been a follower of yours for many years...so happy you are here. Setting up my Mini-Farm Grow Box with grow lights for year around greens :-)
Users have been reporting that the mobile app collects a record of every phone call theyve made. Scary stuff.
So happy to see you over here. I am trying to avoid YouTube as much as possible.
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Hello,
Yes this is Mike Adams, The Health Ranger. We joined this social network recently.
Hello Mike,
I know you've written articles talking about steemit but you should confirm this account on twitter so we know you're the real deal.
We've had some impostor accounts lately claiming to be youtubers but actually turned out to be fakes. Ex: @demolitionranch fake account.
If this is the real Mike Adams, let me be the first from the #Informationwar team to welcome you to steemit.
Informationwar Discord: https://discord.gg/JsXbzFM
This is Mike Adams' account. If you want verification you can send us an email at [email protected] and we will get back to you from there to confirm our identity. In the subject of the email please include NaturalNews on steemit since we receive too many emails. Thank you! We are happy to find loyal readers here as well!
If you are really Mike Adams we'll get you some followers and support. Yet we'd like to verify your identity. It is not uncommon to have people reposting works outside of steemit/steem and benefitting from the income, while it not being their work.
They will sometimes say they have permission, yet that is something else they need to prove.
We don't want plagiarists.
We do want Mike Adams though. :)
Hello!
Thank you for the support! :) Yes, this is Mike Adams, The Health Ranger. We joined this social network recently. We are glad to hear that we have fans here as well :)
If you get a chance can you do something like take a photo holding a piece of paper saying something like The Health Ranger @healthranger is on steemit and the date?
That would reassure a lot of us. We had someone this week posting Jon Rappaport's works and we contacted Jon and he said he did not authorize it. So we're trying to make sure you are who you are before we all start voting on you like mad. :)
EDIT: The guy doing the Jon Rappaport posts was claiming to be Jon Rappaport until some of us spoke to Jon Rappaport in email.
Please feel free to send us an email at [email protected] and we will get back to you from there to confirm our identity. In the subject of the email please include NaturalNews on steemit since we receive too many emails. Thank you!
I actually used your internal communication method awhile ago. Referenced steemit in the subject and chose the bullet of OTHER for topic.
So I have one that way. If you still want me to do the above I can. Also again, we are only doing this to make sure someone doesn't take advantage of you, as we have been seeing that.
Email sent.
We replied just now. Thank you for making sure that no one is abusing our name.
Absolutely. We are very glad to have you here, and glad you are active. You are also responding in comments which is a very good thing. I let people on the #informationwar tag discord server know you are legit, and someone on our team @wakeupnd is already starting a welcome post to announce you to some people.
I expect with your persistence to see your account steadily gain in popularity.
Glad to have you using steemit, and many of us follow your work out of steemit including your labs. Keep up the good work.
Thank you! :)
You can copy and paste images into your reply and post and they'll be uploaded and automatically appear.
Also... assuming you do verify your identity. I helped Dr. Jerome Corsi get on steemit but he hasn't started posting yet. I made the following two posts with him and other new people to steemit in mind. It may help you learn some things quickly rather than the years it has taken myself and others.
That is not intended as spam, as it is past the payout period. It is simply my hope to get people like you powered up and engaged on steemit as quickly as possible.
I've been following Mike Adam's work off and on for more than a decade.
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Excellent article, but at the same time sad, but not surprising what FB or other companies would do to ensure profits are flowing in. I watched a video this morning of Mark Z in an interview from 2011 with a British journalist who was asking straight questions. She asked who will own the data on FB and he said it would be owned by the account holder. He also said that how the data would be used would be completely controlled by the account holder. They contrasted this to his recent "apology" now that he has been caught. I'm not a FB user because I like my privacy, believe I should have complete control over how my data is used and if I give permission to someone to use it, I should be paid.