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Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies – The Markup (themarkup.org)

submitted 10 months ago by KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. On average, each participant in the study had their data sent to Facebook by 2,230 companies. That number varied significantly, with some panelists’ data listing over 7,000 companies providing their data.

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[–] ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

People are stupid, apathetic, profiting off the status quo, or just too exhausted from trying to keep a roof over their head. The role of government should be to protect citizens from being taken advantage of by corporations. We need a new (or heavily amended) Bill of Rights for our modern civilization. Unfortunately in the US: our politicians are servants of corporations rather than citizens. It's a free buffet for our data (that has been collected through better-than-Orwellian means) and nobody seems to give a fuck. I'm just rambling... I wish there were more of us who gave a shit and demanded privacy protections.