Your data are belong to us

[SueEllen]

Wrong. It seems your assertion is contradictory, how do you think they "target" people? Machine learning / profiling on account data perhaps? The power is user data, you are the product.

You can have a social media account and not use it.

[cojak]

Wrong. It seems your assertion is contradictory, how do you think they "target" people? Machine learning / profiling on account data perhaps? The power is user data, you are the product.

No, your data are the products. The consumer is the herd animal that is milked for the product.

We are the gift that keeps on giving...

[Jog On]

Does anyone do facebook ads or use any of the analytic/insight stuff? It's an absolute goldmine for an advertiser.

[Bacchus]

I got an email from my mother last year asking me whether I would mind cleaning her kitchen floor next time I visited as she had spilled a pot of coffee and can't see well enough to clean it up. Within a couple of days my Facebook page was littered with adverts for domestic cleaning services (which haven't reappeared)

Last summer I arranged, via text, to meet some friends in a London pub that I hadn't previously visited - which was suddenly advertised on Facebook - again hasn't been re-advertised.

Obviously cookies and things are fair game - try researching pensions on your PC and see how Investment companies suddenly springs to life - but email and text should be private. I certainly haven't installed any Facebook apps on the phone (and I use a crackberry so hardly fits the description of a modern smart-phone ) but they're getting the info from somewhere.

[Jog On]

I got an email from my mother last year asking me whether I would mind cleaning her kitchen floor next time I visited as she had spilled a pot of coffee and can't see well enough to clean it up. Within a couple of days my Facebook page was littered with adverts for domestic cleaning services (which haven't reappeared)

Last summer I arranged, via text, to meet some friends in a London pub that I hadn't previously visited - which was suddenly advertised on Facebook - again hasn't been re-advertised.

Obviously cookies and things are fair game - try researching pensions on your PC and see how Investment companies suddenly springs to life - but email and text should be private. I certainly haven't installed any Facebook apps on the phone (and I use a crackberry so hardly fits the description of a modern smart-phone ) but they're getting the info from somewhere.

Did you use a web based email account? The text stuff sounds scary...

[original PM]

Did you use a web based email account? The text stuff sounds scary...

For a really scary thing - leave your mobile on and unlocked and start talking about a subject

then go to google something about said subject on your phone and see what google suggests as you type.

Then put your phone in a bucket of water, don your tinfoil helmet and go live off the grid!

[TheGreenBastard]

You can have a social media account and not use it.

OK, what's your point? Is all your unused social data falsified, Sue?

No, your data are the products. The consumer is the herd animal that is milked for the product.

We are the gift that keeps on giving...

Nah, you and your data are the product as I said; as soon as someone advertises something to sell to you via your FB data you become the product (advertising is the primary reason behind profiling).

[Eirikur]

What is scarier you buy something completely off line, only used my credit card to pay and minutes later see adverts for the products you just bought on FB (happened to me a few times now)
So my credit card company must provide details to advertising agencies about my purchases, can't draw any other conclusions, once can be coincidence, but three or four times?

[TheGreenBastard]

What is scarier you buy something completely off line, only used my credit card to pay and minutes later see adverts for the products you just bought on FB (happened to me a few times now)
So my credit card company must provide details to advertising agencies about my purchases, can't draw any other conclusions, once can be coincidence, but three or four times?

You search for black mamba dildos on Google once and get a lifetime of Amazon ads selling the same thing!

[Eirikur]

You search for black mamba dildos on Google once and get a lifetime of Amazon ads selling the same thing!

that's why I've got an ad-blocker, 6 ads blocked on this page BTW