<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>johnchristopher</author><text>&amp;gt; Lujan: It may surprise you that we’ve not talked about this a lot today. You’ve said everyone controls their data, but you’re collecting data on people who are not even Facebook users who have never signed a consent, a privacy agreement.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; And it may surprise you that on Facebook’s page when you go to “I don’t have a Facebook account and would like to request all my personal data stored by Facebook” it takes you to a form that says “go to your Facebook page and then on your account settings you can download your data.”&lt;p&gt;This is typically something Facebook should be prepared for considering it&amp;#x27;s one of the use case of the GDPR.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s highly likely they are prepared for that but won&amp;#x27;t show it before the storm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tareqak</author><text>Congressman Costello from Pennsylvania asked if AI will be used to recognize the faces of &amp;quot;non-FB users&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Combined with the shadow profiles question by Congressman Lujan from New Mexico, some of these questions are getting closer to what people need to know and understand. Unfortunately, a lot of the rest of questioning seems like blind man&amp;#x27;s bluff &amp;#x2F; Marco Polo [0].&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;d be nice if Congress can be asked to host a debate between subject matter experts in the privacy domain (who are knowledgeable and can effectively communicate this knowledge and their concerns to lay people) and tech company C-level executives like Zuckerburg.&lt;p&gt;2:50 PM EDT: Congressman Duncan from North Carolina is going to give Zuckerburg a small copy of the US Constitution.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Blind_man%27s_buff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Blind_man%27s_buff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2:59 PM EDT - Edited to add &amp;quot;to lay people&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;3:02 PM EDT - Added &amp;quot;Marco Polo&amp;quot;. Thanks to caabalis for the reminder.</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>johnchristopher</author><text>&amp;gt; Lujan: It may surprise you that we’ve not talked about this a lot today. You’ve said everyone controls their data, but you’re collecting data on people who are not even Facebook users who have never signed a consent, a privacy agreement.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; And it may surprise you that on Facebook’s page when you go to “I don’t have a Facebook account and would like to request all my personal data stored by Facebook” it takes you to a form that says “go to your Facebook page and then on your account settings you can download your data.”&lt;p&gt;This is typically something Facebook should be prepared for considering it&amp;#x27;s one of the use case of the GDPR.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s highly likely they are prepared for that but won&amp;#x27;t show it before the storm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TAForObvReasons</author><text>WOW they are discussing the FB trackers now.  This may actually get real</text></comment>