-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [IP] Facebook begins tracking non-users around the internet // Study shows detailed, compromising inferences can be readily made with metadata Resent-Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 18:23:46 +0200 Resent-From: d004620@polito.it Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 12:22:39 -0400 From: dfarber <dave@farber.net> Reply-To: dave@farber.net To: ip <ip@listbox.com> Begin forwarded message: 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-coo... 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_sour... 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. - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren