'creepy' Spying Facebook

[naomi24]

Does this depth of intrusion concern Facebook users? It would worry me - which is why I don't use it.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1664178/here-are-the-alarming-98-facts-and-secrets-facebook-knows-about-you/

[Cloverjo]

It doesn't worry me. If I google shoes I get loads of shoe adverts. That's how advertising online works. The people who collect the data from FB don't know who I am, so I'm not bothered.

[hc4361]

I remember the days when real people knew all about you. The assistant manager at Dad's bank was married to the woman who owned the corner shop opposite our house. As we didn't have a car we relied on that shop a lot. Her sister was our GP's receptionist.
The shopkeeper told my Dad my Mom was pregnant - not from her sister but because she knew our family's habits so well. "Eileen's buying a lot of licorice allsorts - when's the baby due?" she said to Dad when he popped in for his Three Nuns.

[chrissa1]

If the likes of Facebbok and Google are so all-knowing, why can't they find all IS bases and whereabouts?

[ummmm]

OG - you share as much or as little as you want.

[ummmm]

It's as safe as you want it to be.

[hc4361]

Clarion, of course the NCA love FB, with criminals posting evidence of their crimes on it.
Same with the DWP. They've caught a few 'disabled' people out by seeing the videos of them being extremely active and doing dangerous sport on their holidays. Also people claiming benefits for single people long after they've posted their wedding photos on FB.

[Islay]

Paranoid much?

Those that are so paranoid do you online bank? Use reward card, shop online etc etc.

[hc4361]

Islay, I do online banking and pay all my bills online. I don't want my postman to know who I get my electricity from, who I bank with and who I owe money to

:D

[Mamyalynne]

Information gathering goes on all the time, everywhere.

If they know the square footage of my home, where are my ads for cheap carpets?

[hc4361]

Mamya, they know you've got solid oak flooring so don't bother

[Mamyalynne]

They need new spies then , we're doomed.

[Islay]

Lol HC

[agchristie]

Hphrpse eht sefats ywa ot moncmiauetc htiw ache teroh si yb corifgn het preictnie ot sarcnbuelm oruy atad?

[hc4361]

Nah, a bot would crack that in a millisecond.

[Huderon]

Zacs-Master gave the correct answer in the first reply.

Some of the things in that list are the result of the way people use their mobile devices - most leave location services switched on along with wi-fi access, and an awful lot also will have have the Facebook app running all the time as well.

So Facebook will know where you are as long as the app is running. That also means that Facebook could, should they decide to, come up with a list of the shops, bars, coffee places and the like which you use most often (by recording your location and retaining that information over a long period).

And for something like who lives in your home - if you, your partner and children are all on Facebook, even if none of you told Facebook your address, you will all be at the same location at some point outside of working/school hours and using the same IP address, so over time it would be easy enough to identify who is likely to be living at your location.

[Huderon]

naomi, re your question at 09:13 - if you put the Facebook app on a mobile device, you automatically give them permission to access your contacts on the phone and on any email addresses linked to your phone or tablet.

As an aside, you also give them permission to add or remove accounts and contacts as well. Not that they would do that, it's just a side effect of the way apps are developed these days.

[hc4361]

Huderon, if you have the FB app on your phone you can turn those permissions off. I did as soon as I installed it

[Old_Geezer]

The very fact that they default to, "we will nose at everything personal on your phone until it's too late for you to realise we did", is unforgivable, and ought to be illegal. It's people's acceptance of this sort of appalling behaviour, and defence of it, that encourages them to push further.

[Marshwarble]

Surely we'd also work out that Naomi reads the Sun, and is more right wing than the average Sun reader? I would suggest that she doesn't live in London and isn't trendy (like most of us).