<story><title>Facebook lawyers explain to a judge that privacy on Facebook is nonexistent</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2019/06/14/facebook-privacy-policy-court/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wybiral</author><text>Users grasp the idea that posting on social media is a public thing. It&amp;#x27;s like getting on stage and shouting to everyone in the room... It&amp;#x27;s not private.&lt;p&gt;But, Facebook is invading privacy in subtle ways that users aren&amp;#x27;t so good at grasping. Like the fact that Facebook remembers every website they visit. And how long you linger on a post in your timeline. And collects your location data even when you&amp;#x27;re not trying to broadcast it. And analyzes all of your private messages. And trains neural networks to recognize you so they can correlate you with other pictures throughout the internet (and who knows, maybe they&amp;#x27;re sharing those models with random governments or other companies).&lt;p&gt;That stuff is the real privacy violation, not the public posts. And that stuff is intentionally obscured from the users and vaguely articulated in their privacy policy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>annadane</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s also fairly difficult when they intentionally make it hard for the distinction of public&amp;#x2F;non public to be understood. &amp;quot;People you may know&amp;quot; is a privacy violation. &amp;quot;A friend commented on such and such post&amp;quot; is a priacy violation.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook lawyers explain to a judge that privacy on Facebook is nonexistent</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2019/06/14/facebook-privacy-policy-court/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wybiral</author><text>Users grasp the idea that posting on social media is a public thing. It&amp;#x27;s like getting on stage and shouting to everyone in the room... It&amp;#x27;s not private.&lt;p&gt;But, Facebook is invading privacy in subtle ways that users aren&amp;#x27;t so good at grasping. Like the fact that Facebook remembers every website they visit. And how long you linger on a post in your timeline. And collects your location data even when you&amp;#x27;re not trying to broadcast it. And analyzes all of your private messages. And trains neural networks to recognize you so they can correlate you with other pictures throughout the internet (and who knows, maybe they&amp;#x27;re sharing those models with random governments or other companies).&lt;p&gt;That stuff is the real privacy violation, not the public posts. And that stuff is intentionally obscured from the users and vaguely articulated in their privacy policy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>8ytecoder</author><text>I block every tracker and don’t have Facebook installed and yet they show me ads that are uncanny. 
Rode my bike and hurt my back. Pretty sure I searched for remedies - likely on DDG. And bought a massage ball on Amazon. Instagram is filled with ads to address my back pain.</text></comment>