<story><title>Zuckerberg denies knowledge of Facebook shadow profiles</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/facebook-shadow-profiles-hearing-lujan-zuckerberg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TravelTechGuy</author><text>Just one question, following Zuckeberg&amp;#x27;s congress show-and-dance: are the next CEOs to be called in front of the committee the ones from Equifax, Experian and TransUnion?&lt;p&gt;Because the way I see it, they&amp;#x27;re collecting millions of &amp;quot;shadow profiles&amp;quot;, with no consent, no remedy, no removal procedures. Furthermore, they sell that data to 3rd parties at will.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d also look into a possible connection between one of these and Facebook. I imagine if someone crosses your social profile with actual credit records, real name, address, car, etc. then you have nothing private left to protect save the thoughts in your head.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lumberjack</author><text>Equifax may have your bank statements, and whatever sensitive numbers they can collect, but they do not literally have have your inner thoughts, in the same way that Facebook and Google have.&lt;p&gt;That is an important distinction.&lt;p&gt;Surveillance like this is harmful, either way. Not just the leaks, but the actual data gathering itself should be criticized. Why is it that during the Equifax leak nobody criticized the data gathering in the first place? It was all about the leak. In this case I am glad that the data gathering is being put into question.&lt;p&gt;But anyway, my main point is that they are collecting different sets of private data.</text></comment>
<story><title>Zuckerberg denies knowledge of Facebook shadow profiles</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/facebook-shadow-profiles-hearing-lujan-zuckerberg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TravelTechGuy</author><text>Just one question, following Zuckeberg&amp;#x27;s congress show-and-dance: are the next CEOs to be called in front of the committee the ones from Equifax, Experian and TransUnion?&lt;p&gt;Because the way I see it, they&amp;#x27;re collecting millions of &amp;quot;shadow profiles&amp;quot;, with no consent, no remedy, no removal procedures. Furthermore, they sell that data to 3rd parties at will.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d also look into a possible connection between one of these and Facebook. I imagine if someone crosses your social profile with actual credit records, real name, address, car, etc. then you have nothing private left to protect save the thoughts in your head.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EquallyJust</author><text>You &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; opt out of interest based ads&amp;#x2F;shadow profiles without having to be a Facebook user by visiting &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;ads&amp;#x2F;settings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;ads&amp;#x2F;settings&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just not very well publicized.</text></comment>