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META data collection - a post from Mastodon (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by nuko147@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Linux@mstdn.ca - As a Meta employee, I can honestly tell you what we know, and I do not know how we obtain all of it.

Your full name
Your full home address
Your phone number
Your e-mail
Your government ID
Your consumer report history * The name of every family member
The name of every friend
The name of their family / friends
Your marital status
If you are faithful to your partner
Your work history (all of it)
Your education history (all of it)
Your travel history (going back years)
Your birth gender
Your gender ID
Your sexuality
Your sexual preferences
How often you're having sex
Your partner's details (all the above)
Your political ideology
Your involvement with any group
If you protest, we know
If you're unhappy, we know

The amount of information we collect on you is insane. And we do it all for supposedly marketing and yes, we help the government since they have access to all this too.

So when someone says they want to avoid META or GOOGLE - respect.

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[–] listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

if i had an account decades ago (real names only era), and deleted every post (manually) and my account when a .edu wasn't going to be required anymore, and I currently use noscript + uBlock origin, apple devices with Brave, how much of this stuff do you think the company has?

Do you think my name shows up in other people's accounts even though I don't have an account?

[–] railcar@midwest.social 9 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately your less cautious cohorts can reveal much of this about you as well. Privacy is a deep rabbit hole. Do what you can, try to educate your peers.

Also, link to the original post: https://mstdn.ca/@Linux/114899148717382605

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

I believe they use phone numbers as another vector. So if someone has you in their contacts, it will link you back if they have faecesbook installed