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Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

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Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

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Post by contriban »

freebuju wrote: post #24

Yeah. This is not particularly a Facebook problem. And it certainly is not an iPhone exclusive one. I would be willing to bet my 2¢ that Apple photo backups store your photos with exif data. Should be trivially easy to strip this info and "track" you as well. Am not seeing anyone crying over this.

I mean, if you’re backing your phone up, you’re basically giving them free reign over your life. Of course there’s location data, and there’s every conversation you’ve ever had on there too.

It’s a matter of expectations: You’re handing your data over to Apple for them to back it up; You’re sending photos via Facebook to share it with friends, and location data isn’t shown anywhere.

Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

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Post by contriban »

woutr_be wrote: post #88
cr1895 wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can continue to use Facebook with the mobile website…the point of the parent comment was to just not use the app itself.

How does that work for WhatsApp (a Facebook app now)?

It doesn’t. WhatsApp is an app on your phone. That’s it. It can’t be anything else anywhere else, it’s how it’s been designed.

Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

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Post by hyko »

contriban wrote: post #91
freebuju wrote: post #24

Yeah. This is not particularly a Facebook problem. And it certainly is not an iPhone exclusive one. I would be willing to bet my 2¢ that Apple photo backups store your photos with exif data. Should be trivially easy to strip this info and "track" you as well. Am not seeing anyone crying over this.

I mean, if you’re backing your phone up, you’re basically giving them free reign over your life. Of course there’s location data, and there’s every conversation you’ve ever had on there too. It’s a matter of expectations: You’re handing your data over to Apple for them to back it up; You’re sending photos via Facebook to share it with friends, and location data isn’t shown anywhere.

If you’re backing your phone up to iCloud.

Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

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Post by sundvor »

saos wrote: post #3

Or just delete Facebook apps.

Yep. And this is easier now too. Disabled my FB account whilst leaving FB messenger open is possible now, so that finally worked well for me.

Can't change my profile picture in the Messenger app though, so would need to reactivate if I felt the urgent need to.

Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

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Post by shawnz »

ekianjo wrote: post #23
soziawa wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This doesn't provide end-to-end-encryption for WhatsApp so I'd actually call this worse than just using WhatsApp in the first place. Facebook gets all the data and your messages are stored somewhere (either at Beeper or on your own server) as plaintext.

You think Facebook does not have access to Whatsapp messages ? Would be very surprised if thats not the case.

Facebook doesn't have access to WhatsApp messages. WhatsApp uses the same end-to-end encryption protocol as Signal. We know this is true because the app has been extensively reverse engineered to create these third party clients among other reasons.

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Post by mnw21cam »

thih9 wrote: post #51
thom wrote: post #15

I wouldn’t know, still busy trying to fill out your cookie consent form.

I'd love to see a detailed analysis / reverse engineering that targets how 'legitimate interest' settings really works in these forms. This form in particular pre-selects all 'legitimate interest' switches and requires me to click them all, one by one. Does it really change anything? What does it change? What if I left them selected? A quick look at their privacy policy [1] brings up: > Forbes may also process certai…

Yeah, it's a dark pattern, illegal under the GDPR, and I'd love to see a prosecution under it. It's making the entire consent form a farce, because they do not obey the "No, I do not give consent". You actually have to go through and say "Not only do I not give consent, but I also object to you doing it against my consent".

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Post by woutr_be »

contriban wrote: post #92
woutr_be wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does that work for WhatsApp (a Facebook app now)?

It doesn’t. WhatsApp is an app on your phone. That’s it. It can’t be anything else anywhere else, it’s how it’s been designed.

That’s exactly my point, I can’t justify deleting it.

Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

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Post by Closi »

freebuju wrote: post #24

Yeah. This is not particularly a Facebook problem. And it certainly is not an iPhone exclusive one. I would be willing to bet my 2¢ that Apple photo backups store your photos with exif data. Should be trivially easy to strip this info and "track" you as well. Am not seeing anyone crying over this.

> Should be trivially easy [for Apple] to strip this info and "track" you as well.

The issue is that you are telling Facebook to not use your location data for marketing, then they are finding out your location via another method and then using it for marketing (based on a loophole in their privacy agreement).

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