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Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information
Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove. Mislove studies how privacy works on social networks and had a theory that Facebook is letting advertisers reach users with contact information collected in surprising ways. I was helping him test the theory by targeting him in a way Facebook had previously told me wouldn’t work. I directed the ad to display to a Facebook account connected to the landline number for Alan Mislove’s office, a number Mislove has never provided to Facebook. He saw the ad within hours.
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In China, the government spies on everything you do, say, buy, eat, drink, believe, everywhere you go, and everything you post online, like, upvote, downvote, etc. And everything your family members and friends do, etc. too. They keep track of it and use it to make decisions that affect your life. People call it a digital dictatorship.
In the US, the corporations do the same thing, and then they bribe the politicians to do what they want. And it’s a “free country” and a “democracy”.
At least the Chinese government are honest with their citizens about what they do.
Any government would covet this, but there are still balances in the free world, for how long, who knows. Now that information is being weaponized, states tend to try and protect themselves often at the expense of freedom.
I even read an article where they'd contact your bank for personal info on you.
But... I thought Zuckerberg promised they wouldn't do that?