2026-02-17
Facebook:
- Tracks you through Like buttons across the web, whether or not you are logged in or even have a Facebook account.
- Maintains shadow profiles on people who don’t use Facebook.
- Logs Android users' calls and texts.
- Absorbs unique phone identifiers through in-app advertising to associate your identity across the different devices you use.
- Tracks your location and serves ads based on where you are, where you live, and where you work.
- Tracks your in-store purchases to link the ads you see online with the purchases you make offline.
- Watches the things you start writing but don’t post to track your self-censorship.
- Linked purchases to Messenger accounts to allow sellers to send confirmation messages without affirmative user permission.
- Bought and advertised a VPN to track what users are doing on other apps and crush competition.
- Manipulated your Newsfeed to see if it can make you sad or happy.
- Files patents for emerging tracking technology, like tracking your location through the dust on your phone camera, for potential future use.
But Facebook does NOT use the mic to listen to you.
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