Subj : Re: Computer Kits
To   : Jeff
From : Arelor
Date : Sat Jan 29 2022 12:52:54

  Re: Re: Computer Kits
  By: Jeff to boraxman on Fri Jan 28 2022 06:33 pm

 > On 29 Jan 2022, boraxman said the following...
 >  bo>  Je> Fortunately, participation in social media is entirely voluntary.
 >  bo> No, its not.
 >  bo> I had Facebook create a profile on me without joining.  It already knew
 >  bo> who was in my social circle before I signed up.  It new real estate
 >  bo> agents I had talked to and other people who had phoned me.
 > 
 > How did they do this? Maybe someone invited you to FB? At any rate, this doe
 > not compel your participation any more than junk mail circulars with your
 > name and address on them compel you to read them or buy the things advertize
 > in them.
 > 

Shadow profiles have been a thing for a long time already.


If all your friends use Facebook and Whatsapp, these services may realize you
are in their addressbooks and extrapolate your data (your likely hobbies, your
likely interests) from the sort of people who has your phone number saved in
their phone.

Facebook was actually hit with a lawsuit over building Facebook shadow profiles
from other platforms they owned without user consent. They also have taken it
for tracking non facebook users via widgets in third party websites.

It doesn t look to me like they are ok with participation being voluntary.


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