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Facebook will now show you exactly how it stalks you — even when you're not using Facebook
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1866" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.stripes.com/news/us/facebook-will-now-show-you-exactly-how-it-stalks-you-even-when-you-re-not-using-facebook-1.616662" target="_blank"><strong>Facebook will now show you exactly how it stalks you — even when you're not using Facebook - Stars and Stripes</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Ever suspect the Facebook app is listening to you? What we now know is even creepier.</strong></p><p></p><p>Facebook is giving us a new way to glimpse just how much it knows about us: On Tuesday, the social network made a long-delayed "Off-Facebook Activity" tracker available to its 2 billion members. It shows Facebook and sister apps Instagram and Messenger don't need a microphone to target you with those eerily specific ads and posts — they're all up in your business countless other ways.</p><p></p><p>Even with Facebook closed on my phone, the social network gets notified when I use the Peet's Coffee app. It knows when I read the website of presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg or view articles from The Atlantic. Facebook knows when I click on my Home Depot shopping cart and when I open the Ring app to answer my video doorbell. It uses all this information from my not-on-Facebook, real-world life to shape the messages I see from businesses and politicians alike.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1866, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.stripes.com/news/us/facebook-will-now-show-you-exactly-how-it-stalks-you-even-when-you-re-not-using-facebook-1.616662'][B]Facebook will now show you exactly how it stalks you — even when you're not using Facebook - Stars and Stripes[/B][/URL] [B]Ever suspect the Facebook app is listening to you? What we now know is even creepier.[/B] Facebook is giving us a new way to glimpse just how much it knows about us: On Tuesday, the social network made a long-delayed "Off-Facebook Activity" tracker available to its 2 billion members. It shows Facebook and sister apps Instagram and Messenger don't need a microphone to target you with those eerily specific ads and posts — they're all up in your business countless other ways. Even with Facebook closed on my phone, the social network gets notified when I use the Peet's Coffee app. It knows when I read the website of presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg or view articles from The Atlantic. Facebook knows when I click on my Home Depot shopping cart and when I open the Ring app to answer my video doorbell. It uses all this information from my not-on-Facebook, real-world life to shape the messages I see from businesses and politicians alike. [/QUOTE]
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