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Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies – The Markup (themarkup.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. On average, each participant in the study had their data sent to Facebook by 2,230 companies. That number varied significantly, with some panelists’ data listing over 7,000 companies providing their data.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (4 children)

20 years ago there would have been an outrage. Today, people are fine with it. I don't understand that shit. Yet those same people were quick to jump on byte dance, because china.

There should be rules and regulations across the board, un- influenced by bribes ~~lobbying~~.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

and twenty-five years ago all those companies probably would have wanted you to have their mailing address and phone number.

times have changed.

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