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> It would be comical if it weren't so dystopian Dystopian? It's literally just plain capitalism in regular reality. Why insist it's something imaginary?
What makes a spokesperson lying “capitalism?” One can think of lying spokespersons like good ol’ Baghdad Bob operating outside of a business context.
> “We do not share SAT scores or GPAs with Facebook or TikTok, and any other third parties using pixel or cookies,” said a College Board spokesperson. “In fact, we do not send any personally identifiable information (PII) through our pixels on the site. In addition, we do not use SAT scores or GPAs for any targeting.” > After receiving this comment, Gizmodo shared a screenshot of the College Board sending GPAs and SA…
Facebook and TikTok already have the PII! And that's why it's bad for CB to share the data.
CB is evil, but in this particular case they're just being stupid not shady, and shady FB and TikTok benefit from it.
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> If you score a 2400 but search for colleges that accept 1600 But most people won't be doing that. For most people, it'll send their actual scores most of the time. Saying that "they don't send your actual score" is the kind of sophistry that's technically correct but also wildly inaccurate in actual cases.
It's also ridiculous that we should be somehow OK with sending people's search queries to completely unaffiliated 3rd parties, especially search queries on personal topics like this. The argument that it's OK because it's not technically sending your actual score is so incredibly weaselly that I can only assume it's in bad faith.
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Why would they even send search parameter info to Facebook, tiktok, etc? Genuinely don't see how that makes it any better. It's arguably worse.
You send us your data, we give you better ad campaigns as well as better metrics/insights about performance.
My biggest question with this article is why the College Board needs to/is allowed to advertise. They're ostensibly a nonprofit that has a captive audience in the form of basically every US high school student who's even considering college. The fact that they're advertising anything at all is just as concerning to me as the data they use to target those ads.
CB is bad, but advertising isn't why.
And for some reason people hate GRPR and those cookie pop-ups... Like maybe this is exactly type of activity Europe wants to stop from happening...
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> It would be comical if it weren't so dystopian Dystopian? It's literally just plain capitalism in regular reality. Why insist it's something imaginary?
Dystopian is not always imaginative, however most of the time people assume it is. It's just a negative adjective.
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Big government already has a hundred ways of getting your SAT score, for example from the admissions department of any public university in the country. It's everyone else you should be worried about. A potential employer, landlord or bank pulling your teenage SAT score without your consent and judging you based on it is a scary but very real prospect.
"It's everyone else you should be worried about." Sure, but also worry about the government. First, the government has no more business knowing your personal details than any other organization. If they want info, that's what warrants are for. Second, people tend to thing of the government as some sort of single entity. It's not. Government is made up of people: some good, some evil, most just trying to get through t…
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Yeah and then still claim that it can't be traced to the person, where the whole point of the pixel is to lead it back to their fb profile. The spokesperson is either being fed false information or blatantly lying. At least someone in the organization is.
This is overly harsh. The spokesperson assumed they were being accused of abusing their position of running the SAT by actually sending real SAT scores directly to Facebook, so they responded accordingly. Instead they were abusing their position of trust to get students to enter the scores again themselves and sending that . Still not great, but not a lie on the spokesperson's part, just a misunderstanding of what wa…
> “We do not share SAT scores or GPAs with Facebook or TikTok, and any other third parties using pixel or cookies,” said a College Board spokesperson. “In fact, we do not send any personally identifiable information (PII) through our pixels on the site. In addition, we do not use SAT scores or GPAs for any targeting.” > After receiving this comment, Gizmodo shared a screenshot of the College Board sending GPAs and SA…
Article is clickbait/ragebait. They're not sending your scores. If you do a search for colleges who accept scores in a certain range, your search parameters are tracked, just like any other search parameters.