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Oh great – now Facebook and Instagram want your private data to train Meta's latest AI pipe dream (www.techradar.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The worst part is that I haven't had an account on any of their products in well over a decade, and yet I'm sure that they'll be able to use tons of my up-to-date info in their training.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Probably. Guaranteed you have a shadow account in the very least.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How are they getting that up-to-date info?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Virtually every app on your phone has facebook/instagram trackers that gets access to whatever data that app has access to
Their ad network (that runs broadly across the internet) is not only known to fingerprint everyone that sees an ad. They've pioneered new was of keeping track of you even if your browser fingerprint changes.
Facebook (and one assumes Threads/Instagram) create ghost profiles of everyone mentioned or photographed in any posts on their platform if they can't link that mined data to an actual account. So if your friends use the platform, then you do too, whether you know it or not.
Cambridge Analytica is probably not the only company doing that stuff, they're just the ones that got caught.

That's not an exhaustive list, mind you.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago

A quick Googling of "phones without Facebook" gives lots of options.

Facebook (and one assumes Threads/Instagram) create ghost profiles of everyone mentioned or photographed in any posts on their platform if they can’t link that mined data to an actual account. So if your friends use the platform, then you do too, whether you know it or not.

This would be Facebook using your friends' data. It happens to be about you, but it's not yours.

I'm not saying people shouldn't care about privacy or take actions to protect it, but I think it's possible to go overboard in believing that nobody is allowed to know anything about you without your permission. There's a lot of public information that's available to anyone simply by being in public.

If you don't want your friends telling people about you, that's on you to tell your friends that. If your friends refuse to keep your existence secret then you'll have to decide whether that's more important to you than having friends.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My phone can't uninstall Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Then he does have an account on their products.