Facebook and Google see you when you are sleeping. They know when you’re awake and lots more.
Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon all came off bad and Facebook came off worse in the enterprise app abuse scandal, and critics say in revoking enterprise certificates Apple retains too much control over what content customers have and use on their devices. Facebook’s data-harvesting operation is, as we all know by now, huge. Whenever you use Facebook, or any modern website, or an app that has integration with Facebook, the company collects and disseminates a trove of data that is, according to my pea-brained conception, virtually infinite. Onavo, the virtual private network (VPN) software that Facebook used to clandestinely track the market and its potential technology competitors. VPNs work by forwarding all of your internet traffic through a proxy (in this case, Facebook) masking the person doing the web surfing in the process. In effect, Onavo gave Facebook detailed snapshots of privacy conscious users’ habits, including “time you spend using apps, mobile and Wi-Fi data you use per app, the websites you visit, and your country, device and network type.” An investigation by The Wall Street Journal found that, in many cases, popular mobile apps were sending Facebook sensitive data anyway. One such app was Flo, a tool for tracking one’s menstrual cycle.
Facebook and all of the other data collection methods are a sprawling federation of data collectors, all united behind the purpose of collecting as much personal data as possible.
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