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martyb
on Saturday July 08 2017, @12:31AM
from the friends-don't-let-friends-use-Facebook dept.
from the friends-don't-let-friends-use-Facebook dept.
The decision... gave Facebook a win in a lawsuit that accused the company of improperly tracking users' Internet usage... even after they had logged out of their Facebook accounts.
Facebook had promised that logging out would delete the cookies, the lawsuit charged.
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila ruled that plaintiffs in the lawsuit "have not established that they have a reasonable expectation of privacy".
Additionally, the decision said the plaintiffs failed to establish a "realistic economic harm or loss".
Darn it! As a member of the injured class, I was looking forward to winning a coupon for 1 month of free facebook use.
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday July 08 2017, @01:45AM (5 children)
Would a Paranoid person ever visit Facebook knowing that they track everything?
Would FOMO keep them signed in - just to know what people are saying about them?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday July 08 2017, @03:12AM (4 children)
many of my friends and family don't know any other way to communicate than facebook.
I ordered some Room Shocker deodorizer from Amazon for a friend who has no payment cards. For a couple weeks afterward, Facebook was displaying ads for Room Shocker.
That's just creepy.
I only buy from Amazon when I have no other choice. Most of the stuff I want I can find at NewEgg or direct from the manufacturer.
I am dead certain that Jeff Bezos is in league with Satan.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @03:50AM (1 child)
Not just Amazon, your bank probably has bugs reporting back to Google or Facebook too.
Just so that ads can be sent to you after the need has passed?
And the businesses where you are a customer sell you out so that Google and Facebook can present you with competitive ads?
Can't wait for the next tech crash when the return on advertising investment gets questioned.
(Score: 2) by TheB on Saturday July 08 2017, @10:40AM
Every bank account/credit card agreement I've seen in the last several years has allowed selling your purchase history.
Netflix recently changed their TOS to allow selling viewing history.
My university, against students wishes, sold access to student records.
Even when a company states in their TOS they will never share your info, courts have allowed whomever buys them to ignore any existing privacy agreement.
Any data you leak can be sold.
It's almost unavoidable that parts of our lives will become training sets for future AI.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @06:18AM (1 child)
This is a feature of the Amazon CDN, not Facebook.
Search for something potentially controversial at home on Amazon. Be amazed that 90% of the websites you then visit for the next couple of weeks will have Amazon banner ads for the things you were just casually looking at on Amazon.com.
And marvel at the wonders of advanced Big Data Analytics algorithms!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @03:55PM
does it use cookies or ip address or both or browser fingerprinting or all of the above in some manner of Voltron Effect(tm)?