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I have acquaintances like that as well. They are usually the "I have nothing to hide" kind of type. :(
An easy disarm is "You are confusing privacy with secrecy. It is no secret what happens in the bathroom. It doesn't mean we are going to remove the doors because people still want privacy"
The bigger problem for me is how facebook tracks and identifies even people who do not have a facebook account. They simply infer such a person exists from photograps, contacts and other one sided activity and can start to track that person, tie all this information together and then target them with ads even though they never signed up for Facebook. Such shadow profiles are a much larger problem to me than people wh…
The bigger problem for me is how facebook tracks and identifies even people who do not have a facebook account. They simply infer such a person exists from photograps, contacts and other one sided activity and can start to track that person, tie all this information together and then target them with ads even though they never signed up for Facebook. Such shadow profiles are a much larger problem to me than people wh…
Do European Union users have a recourse against this? Or do they have to create an account, then request a deletion?
Technically each and every advertising agency that creates a profile on you, gives you a cookie and stores your IP address is in violation of the law. (IP addresses count as PII, Personally Identifiable Information).
I don't see the legal hammer coming down on the advertising industry (of which Facebook and Google are the major players) any time soon if ever.
TL;DR: There's no meat in this article, just fluff.
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Do European Union users have a recourse against this? Or do they have to create an account, then request a deletion?
By law you should but it will be an uphill battle. Technically each and every advertising agency that creates a profile on you, gives you a cookie and stores your IP address is in violation of the law. (IP addresses count as PII, Personally Identifiable Information). I don't see the legal hammer coming down on the advertising industry (of which Facebook and Google are the major players) any time soon if ever.
One way hashed (that can't be rainbow tabled) are not however PII afaik however, so it's quite easy to turn an IP address into a "net location ID" or something similar that can't be tracked back to a physical IP for analytics.
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Do European Union users have a recourse against this? Or do they have to create an account, then request a deletion?
By law you should but it will be an uphill battle. Technically each and every advertising agency that creates a profile on you, gives you a cookie and stores your IP address is in violation of the law. (IP addresses count as PII, Personally Identifiable Information). I don't see the legal hammer coming down on the advertising industry (of which Facebook and Google are the major players) any time soon if ever.
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Do European Union users have a recourse against this? Or do they have to create an account, then request a deletion?
By law you should but it will be an uphill battle. Technically each and every advertising agency that creates a profile on you, gives you a cookie and stores your IP address is in violation of the law. (IP addresses count as PII, Personally Identifiable Information). I don't see the legal hammer coming down on the advertising industry (of which Facebook and Google are the major players) any time soon if ever.
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By law you should but it will be an uphill battle. Technically each and every advertising agency that creates a profile on you, gives you a cookie and stores your IP address is in violation of the law. (IP addresses count as PII, Personally Identifiable Information). I don't see the legal hammer coming down on the advertising industry (of which Facebook and Google are the major players) any time soon if ever.
>IP addresses count as PII, Personally Identifiable Information. One way hashed (that can't be rainbow tabled) are not however PII afaik however, so it's quite easy to turn an IP address into a "net location ID" or something similar that can't be tracked back to a physical IP for analytics.
No need for rainbow tables, the search space is small enough to brute force.