Facebook has been buying data on its users from third-party providers since 2012 and makes it pretty hard to opt out.

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La récolte de données par Facebook - qui a toujours existé - se fait avec des procédés toujours plus sophistiqués. Et incroyablement intrusifs.

I dug into Facebook and found everything it knows about me, and it turns out it knows more than I thought it did.

Few consumers may have heard of Acxiom, a database marketer. But it has amassed the world’s largest commercial data trove about them, analysts say.

I was reading Facebook's revised terms & "privacy" policy this morning, and it specifies that FB is allowed to collect the names of apps and the names of files on any device you log in from. Kudos to the EU for persuading FB to admit it.

Mediapost est une filiale de La Poste qui vend des données personnelles en quantité industrielle. Sous couvert d’anonymat, un ancien responsable raconte l’envers du décor. Un extrait de "Cash Investigation" diffusé sur France 2 le mardi 6 octobre à 20h55.

Social media giant agreed on Tuesday that location data was ‘one of the factors’ it used but on Wednesday said no, not any more

"People You May Know" is both helpful and terrifying as hell.

Headphone manufacturer Bose has found itself in a major legal tangle for allegations of illegally collecting data from its users.

Merci le "deep learning"

Facebook recently started using face recognition in more ways.

Facebook appeared to track who Mumbrella's Tim Burrowes spoke to at an industry event, via the phone in his pocket. So on Friday I was at the Andrew Olle

le we were at the beach one day, we met a group of people and spent several hours hanging out with them. We never exchanged phone numbers or email addresses, we didn't share much information about ourselves other than our names and where we lived, and we didn't connect on social media. I didn't even have my phone on me at the time. However, when I got back to New York and checked Facebook, I saw that two of the people we met popped up in my "People You May Know" recommendations. 

Dans cette nouvelle enquête inédite, l'équipe de "Cash Investigation" dévoile les méthodes de marketing agressif utilisées par les entreprises pour vendre toujours plus. Parfois à la limite de la légalité et au mépris de la santé des consommateurs.

After a few odd encounters, we decided to get some answers from Facebook.

Cambridge Analytica may have used Facebook’s data to influence your political opinions. But why does least-liked tech company Facebook have all this data about its users in the first place? Let’s put aside Instagram, WhatsApp and other Facebook products for a minute. Facebook has built the world’s …

Retailers who want to know what brought people to shop in their physical retail stores have a new tool to try. Facebook has revised its analytics tools for businesses to show how user behavior online translates into brick-and-mortar purchases.

Facebook wants to make sure you know about and control the photos of you people upload, even if they don’t tag you. So today, Facebook launched a new facial recognition feature called Photo Review that will alert you when your face shows up in newly posted photos so you can tag yourself, leav…

The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and had a look

It's not just what you tell Facebook about yourself!

‘People can choose to not be on Facebook if they want’

L’opérateur historique commercialise données et métadonnées à des collectivités locales mais aussi des entreprises via différents services.

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Facebook thrives on data, prodding users to provide it with their memories, cherished moments and relationships.