[ALUG] What information facebook is collecting

[Tim Schofield]

Google and Apple also collect information such as this from Android
phones and Iphones

Tim

On 15 June 2018 at 13:32, Andreas Tauscher via Linux
<linux at mail.habari.co.tz> wrote:
> When Zuckerberg was questioned by the US Senat not all questions have
> been answered.
> Facebook did this now in writing:
> https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/9d8e069d-2670-4530-bcdc-d3a63a8831c4/7C8DE61421D13E86FC6855CC2EA7AEA7.senate-commerce-committee-combined-qfrs-06.11.2018.pdf
>
> The document has 229 pages. Businessinsider was reading it and the
> excerpts are here:
> https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-reveals-all-the-way-it-tracks-user-behaviour-2018-6?r=US&IR=T
>
> Some things facebook is recording when you have the app installed:
> GPS location, camera information, photos, call logs, SMS log history,
> Bluetooth, nearby Wi-Fi access points, nearby cell towers, battery
> level, signal strength, available storage space.
> And much much more.
> If you use it on the PC it is not less.
>
> The like button included in websites as iframe is collecting huge
> amounts of information about your device and browser and sending to
> facebook. If you have a facebook account or not does not matter. For
> users without a facebook account a shadow profile is created.
>
> Website owners should remove the facebook, google etc buttons and
> replacing them with eg. Shariff https://github.com/heiseonline/shariff a
> framework which is sending the like information to facebook only if you
> click in the button.
> For including youtube videos or twitter tweets embeddy
> https://github.com/heiseonline/embetty is a solution. It is showing a
> preview and only connecting to youtube and twitter when clicked on the
> preview.
>
> If you use a service for free you are the product on sale. This is what
> makes the shares of facebook offering a "free" service for anybody worth
> 568 billion USD.
>
> Decide if the "free" service is worth the price you are paying. Detailed
> information about any of your movements, your phone calls, messages you
> are sending and receiving, your contacts, when you charge your phone etc...
>
> Andreas
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