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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Facebook begins tracking non-users around the internet // Study shows detailed, compromising inferences can be readily made with metadata
Date: May 27, 2016 at 12:08:12 PM EDT
To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org
Facebook begins tracking non-users around the internet // Study shows detailed, compromising inferences can be readily made with metadata
Facebook begins tracking non-users around the internet
http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/27/11795248/facebook-ad-network-non-users-cookies-plug-ins
Facebook will now display ads to web users who are not members
of its social network, the company announced Thursday, in a
bid to significantly expand its online ad network. As The Wall
Street Journal reports, Facebook will use cookies, "like"
buttons, and other plug-ins embedded on third-party sites to
track members and non-members alike. The company says it will
be able to better target non-Facebook users and serve relevant
ads to them, though its practices have come under criticism
from regulators in Europe over privacy concerns. Facebook
began displaying a banner notification at the top of its News
Feed for users in Europe today, alerting them to its use of
cookies as mandated under an EU directive.
Study shows detailed, compromising inferences can be readily made with metadata
http://boingboing.net/2016/05/27/study-shows-detailed-compromi.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29
In Evaluating the privacy properties of telephone
metadata, a paper by researchers from Stanford's departments
of Law and Computer Science published in Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, the authors analyzed metadata
from six months' worth of volunteers' phone logs to see what
kind of compromising information they could extract from them.
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