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You, or rather your data, is worth an unquantifiable amount of money to Facebook. That data can be sold to millions of different sites; sites that are and aren’t directly linked to Facebook. After all, Facebook is free to use and yet the platform is worth several billion dollars.
Facebook's main tool for data collation is Facebook Pixel, a little widget that any business operator or any site-owner can install on their webpage. It’s extremely simple to use and to install, and it’s free.
Now what exactly Pixel does is simultaneously vague and convoluted, but essentially it helps whoever is advertising something through Facebook keep track of how effective their advert is. Are you advertising for a newsletter? Facebook Pixel will tell you if they signed up or not. Are you selling a product? Facebook Pixel will tell you if the user completed the transaction, or alternatively if they left the product in their basket.
Facebook stores this data on their own servers, not only to help the site in question sell their product, but also to find out exactly what you are spending your money on and which advertisers are best suited to your Facebook timeline. Say for instance you go to an online retailer and you put a pair of shoes in your basket. For one reason or another, you don’t complete the purchase but you leave the shoes in your basket. Facebook will not only know about this, but using their targeted ads system and Facebook Pixel, they will advertise the same brand of shoes to you to remind you to go back to the aforementioned site and complete the purchase.
Facebook Pixel isn’t the only tool advertisers have at their disposal. “In general, it’s important to understand that every player in the advertising and analytics industry has their own tracking systems and data can be securely moved between platforms. So it’s not only the Facebook Pixel, although it is the most popular — only rivaled by Google" as stated by the author's unnamed source.
“The whole apparatus that came afterward — audience profiling, content creation, granular ad targeting etc. — utilized every platform that’s available. Facebook itself was only vital for the foundation of this mess.”
“The footwork is done everywhere — Google, Twitter, Pinterest, Blogs & Websites, etc. I’m not trying to defend Facebook here, but to emphasize the fact that this is a systemic problem. No one wins if we’re only talking about Facebook.”
On the 25th of May, this year, something called the GDPR will go into effect. GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation, which will replace the Data Protection Directive once it goes into effect. A quote on the eugdpr.org website explains that the GDPR is “designed to harmonize data privacy laws across Europe, to protect and empower all EU citizens data privacy and to reshape the way organizations across the region approach data privacy.”
What this means is when it comes time to delete your Facebook, the GDPR will (in short) make it so that your personal data will be scrubbed clean from Facebook’s servers.
privacy law = 140. a little widget = 147. Freemason = 147
Enemy Intelligence = 177. The Mark of the Beast = 177. Times and Seasons = 177
Stalk = 63. Unintelligent = 63. Freemasonic Law = 63 / 234
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