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Facebook and Google "listening" is more pervasive than you think
2021-11-15 14:31

At breakfast, she was convinced either Facebook or Google was listening to her the previous night.

You see, Facebook knows my mother-in-law and I are friends on the platform.

That could have gone two ways: Facebook could have run the algorithm on every friend associated with my Facebook account or it could limit it to only the friends I'd been in close contact with over X days.

Companies like Facebook will never understand or learn from a situation such as the one I experienced over the weekend.

Companies like Facebook do themselves no favors in making it very challenging for users to gain even a semblance of privacy with the platform.

People aren't clicking on Facebook ads the way they used to, and situations, like the one I experienced over the weekend, are fueling that fire of mistrust.


News URL

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/facebook-and-google-listening-is-more-pervasive-than-you-think/#ftag=RSS56d97e7

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