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You Must Be Joking: Facebook’s new button lets its AI look at photos you haven’t uploaded yet

2025-10-182025-10-18 Danie
Logo of Meta in white text on a red background, surrounded by bold black abstract lines, resembling tangled loops.

“Meta has rolled out an opt-in AI feature to its US and Canadian Facebook users that claims to make their photos and videos more shareworthy. The only catch is that the feature is designed for […]

Blogfacebook, privacy, technology

‘Careless People’ Is the Book About Facebook I’ve Wanted for a Decade, but the Author is Gagged from Promoting It

2025-04-072025-04-07 Danie
Cover of the memoir "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams, featuring a blue background with a shark fin illustration, highlighting themes of power and greed.

“Careless People, by Sarah Wynn-Williams, is the book about Facebook that I didn’t know I had been waiting a decade to read. It’s also, notably, a book that Facebook does not want you to read; […]

Blogbanned, facebook, reading, technology

No Surprise: Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies

2024-01-172024-01-17 Danie
Cartoon depiction of a smartphone with a user head protruding from it, with various eyeballs around it

By now most internet users know their online activity is constantly tracked. No one should be shocked to see ads for items they previously searched for, or to be asked if their data can be […]

Blogfacebook, privacy, technology, tracking

Posting anonymously on Facebook is NOT anonymous

2023-11-262023-11-26 Danie
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This is probably worth noting, for anyone who still uses Facebook, and thinks posting “anonymously” in a group, is actually anonymous. This is especially true for small friend or family groups, and could cause major […]

Blogfacebook, privacy, technology

Facebook Watches Teens Online As They Prep for College: Facebook And WhatsApp Still Spy On User Behaviour

2023-11-222023-11-22 Danie
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Here’s what the student doesn’t know: Although she surfed the internet in the privacy of her home, Facebook saw much of what she did. Every single site she visited used the Meta Pixel, a tracking […]

Blogfacebook, privacy, technology, tracking

Analysis Suggests Instagram Tracks User Web Activity Through In-App Browser – Your Metadata Is Worth Money

2022-08-102022-08-10 Danie
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A new analysis of the Instagram app has suggested that every time a user clicks a link within the app, Instagram is capable of monitoring all of their interactions, text selections, and even text input, […]

Blogfacebook, instagram, metadata, privacy, technology

Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document

2022-04-272022-04-27 Danie
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Facebook is facing what it describes internally as a “tsunami” of privacy regulations all over the world, which will force the company to dramatically change how it deals with users’ personal data. And the “fundamental” […]

Blogdeletefacebook, facebook, meta, privacy, technology

Facebook exposes ‘god mode’ token that could siphon data through L.O.C. extension, but dev says they are not harvesting that information

2022-02-122022-02-12 Danie
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Brave this week said it is blocking the installation of a popular Chrome extension called L.O.C. because it exposes users’ Facebook data to potential theft. “If a user is already logged into Facebook, installing this […]

Blogfacebook, privacy, technology, vulnerability

If you use Firefox browser, you can volunteer to help cast light on Facebook’s pixel tracking network and data collection practices across the web

2022-01-102022-01-10 Danie
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Mozilla has teamed up with non-profit The Markup, and the pair are recruiting for the Facebook Pixel Hunt study, asking users to download Rally – Mozilla’s privacy-first data-sharing platform, launched last year – and share […]

Blogbigtech, facebook, privacy, technology
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