<story><title>Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (2018)</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44379593</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NotPavlovsDog</author><text>Long-overdue legislation and increased activism, including activism by the tech community, and ongoing informing of consumers about dangers of sharing their data, are some of the possible mitigation steps.&lt;p&gt;A simple first step: send an article on digital privacy, that  you like, to your network and invite them to get back to you with questions they have. A possible start: EFF have an excellent privacy hub &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;privacy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;privacy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have taken a case study with my teen about people loosing careers after facebook flame-wars; and being hauled in by police on face-recognition and geolocation data. We have a discussion at least once a month about the cyber-dystopia we find ourselves in.&lt;p&gt;As I posted before, I&amp;#x27;ll just leave this here:&lt;p&gt;1. &amp;quot;It turns out that Facebook also buys data about your offline purchases. The next time you pay for a burrito with your credit card, Facebook will learn about this transaction and match this credit card number with the one you added in Messenger.&lt;p&gt;In other words, Messenger is a great Trojan horse designed to learn everything about you.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;facebook-knows-literally-everything-about-you&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;facebook-knows-literally-e...&lt;/a&gt; From 2018!&lt;p&gt;2. &amp;quot;Google now knows when its users go to the store and buy stuff.&lt;p&gt;Google has begun using billions of credit-card transaction records to prove that its online ads are prompting people to make purchases – even when they happen offline in brick-and-mortar stores [...] Privacy advocates said few people understand that their purchases are being analyzed in this way&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;the-switch&amp;#x2F;wp&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;google-now-knows-when-you-are-at-a-cash-register-and-how-much-you-are-spending&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;the-switch&amp;#x2F;wp&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;23...&lt;/a&gt; From 2017!&lt;p&gt;Consumer data is the gold the consumer appears to be giving away, unwittingly or carelessly, regardless of the regime or geographic location.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (2018)</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44379593</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>&lt;i&gt;What&lt;/i&gt; data was shared?&lt;p&gt;Simple data of &amp;quot;users of the facebook app on your devices spent ~1 hour per day on the app&amp;quot; sounds like legitimate data to share to decide how much facebook should pay for the privilege of being preinstalled.&lt;p&gt;I can see how the companies involved need to see the data to audit it.&lt;p&gt;As long as that was the scope, that sounds fine.</text></comment>