Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone
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Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone
#2TL;DR: facebook stores exif data. however it strips it out for display to the public. This includes geodata. Its unclear what they do with it after, and how you have control over it.
Interesting nugget: the author repeats the lies that apple doesn't collect/store/index your data.
I think the scepticism of facebook is a good thing, however I really wish it would be applied equally to every big company. Especially when they so clearly abuse privacy like Apple and Google.
Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone
#3Or just delete Facebook apps.
Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone
#4TL;DR: facebook stores exif data. however it strips it out for display to the public. This includes geodata. Its unclear what they do with it after, and how you have control over it. Interesting nugget: the author repeats the lies that apple doesn't collect/store/index your data. I think the scepticism of facebook is a good thing, however I really wish it would be applied equally to every big company. Especially when…
> Interesting nugget: the author repeats the lies that apple doesn't collect/store/index your data.
I did not saw this in the article... Can you elaborate on this like copy/pasting the line(s) from the article please?
Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone
#5TL;DR: facebook stores exif data. however it strips it out for display to the public. This includes geodata. Its unclear what they do with it after, and how you have control over it. Interesting nugget: the author repeats the lies that apple doesn't collect/store/index your data. I think the scepticism of facebook is a good thing, however I really wish it would be applied equally to every big company. Especially when…
I think one of his main points is that he explicitly indicated not to collect that data, and the FB app itself indicates that the functionality is 'switched off'.
Also: "I suggested to them that this data is used for advertising purposes, and that this is “regardless of the privacy settings selected by the user within the Facebook/Instagram app on their phones.” Facebook told me it was fine to proceed with those assumptions."
FB stance seems to be that the user has the option to strip EXIF data before uploading to FB. On the same token, can't strip your IP, guess that means a proxy.
Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone
#6TL;DR: facebook stores exif data. however it strips it out for display to the public. This includes geodata. Its unclear what they do with it after, and how you have control over it. Interesting nugget: the author repeats the lies that apple doesn't collect/store/index your data. I think the scepticism of facebook is a good thing, however I really wish it would be applied equally to every big company. Especially when…
> Interesting nugget: the author repeats the lies that apple doesn't collect/store/index your data. I did not saw this in the article... Can you elaborate on this like copy/pasting the line(s) from the article please?
> iOS 14.5 is also fairly new—the impact is still being assessed. And so we’ll need to wait and see what workarounds the data giants find to keep tracking our web and app activity.
6th paragraph. However, I‘m not sure whether Apple or Facebook is „the data giants“.
Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone
#7TL;DR: facebook stores exif data. however it strips it out for display to the public. This includes geodata. Its unclear what they do with it after, and how you have control over it. Interesting nugget: the author repeats the lies that apple doesn't collect/store/index your data. I think the scepticism of facebook is a good thing, however I really wish it would be applied equally to every big company. Especially when…
> Its unclear what they do with it after
The article states that FB all but confirmed that it is used for advertising purposes.
> the author repeats the lies that apple doesn't collect/store/index your data.
Where's the proof/evidence of this? Apps/OS have been found to leak/send some 'personal' data to Apple servers, but they say they don't track outside of apps (so app store ads use data from your app store usage etc), for them to do so without admitting it would be a huge commercial risk for very little gain (advertising revenue is still a small % of their total revenue).
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#8"""secretly"""
Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone
#9A user can disable geo-tagging or the better(?) disable precise location in Settings.app > Privacy > Camera.
Like mentioned in the article, there a lot of EXIF strips in Appstore too but I’m not sure if a regular user would take the road of take photo > go to exif stripper > delete exif on photo > save the photo > go to facebook > upload to facebook
Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone
#10Or just delete Facebook apps.
Unfortunately it's not that simple for everyone. I personally would lose contact with a lot of people if I delete Messenger or Whatsapp. On all my contacts, I have two on Signal, zero on Matrix.