- Web sites you visit every day, like Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram and Twitter, follow almost every move you make online. Social Media spying began dating in the spotlight as more people become curious as to what information they take from you, and how invasive they are.
Have an informed opinion about espionage social media that is happening can help you fight against them expressing an informed opinion, and by changing your privacy settings. Read on to see what the Big Four are up.
espionage Social Media on Facebook
start with the worst offender and work our way down. Not only is Facebook the most popular social network in the world, with over one billion monthly active users, but it is also the absolute worst for collecting data on users. If you have not already heard a hundred times:
You are the product sold on Facebook
Facebook records and stores data on almost everything you made on the application and desktop mobile version:
- How long chat with this hot new person in your life
- shopping online by matching the email you provide the site with email. you use on Facebook.
- The messages you write and delete before posting, even individual words you edit out.
- It records websites to connect with your Facebook account as OkCupid, Fitbit, a game on your phone.
- email addresses of your friends that are stored on your phone.
Yep, they record stuff that's on your phone, but in no way connected to Facebook. Fun, huh? #bitterangrysarcasm
The last bit of crazy is how they follow everything you do on other sites using cookies. They follow what web sites you go to, how much time you spend, this video you watch, what you download, and so on.
- the Digital Advertising Alliance in the US
- the digital Advertising Alliance of Canada
- the digital Advertising European Alliance
for your Android mobile device, you can go to Google Settings> Message> check "opt Out of Interest-Based ads "to turn green. To do the same on iOS; go to General> Restrictions> Advertising, then switch to "limited advertising Follow."
Once this is done, use a good blocker cookies as Ghostery or Ad Blocker Plus. Facebook still follow some of your data, but it will not be nearly as profitable for them. For added touch, a VPN service can scramble the data based on your location and it is difficult to track your specific activity through public IP addresses used.
Social Media spying on Instagram
Since Facebook has Instagram, you can bet it is doing exactly the same things that Facebook is. Facebook Instagram had even radically change their Terms of Use and Privacy Policy in 2012 when they resumed.
I'm not exaggerating when I say "changed dramatically." Instagram claim now being shared photo on it that fair use for messages of sponsored story, or go to companies advertising. How many users would be paid for it? You guessed it. Nothing. They claim to have fallen on this, but their current policy still has the same rights:
"(Instagram) a non-exclusive, fully paid, transferable, free sublicensable license rights World to use the content that you post on or through the service. "
This gives them the right to take any pictures you post on site and sell it to someone else. They give you a total of $ 0.00 for this
The policy goes on to say :.
"We may share your information and User Content (including but not limited to, information from cookies, log files, device identifiers, location data and usage data) with companies that are legally part of the same group of companies as Instagram is part of, or are part of this group ( "Affiliates"). "
Yes they are well covered for a future move to take pictures. once the look on espionage social media dies down, if you allow that is, they will begin to do that.
Social media spying on Tumblr
Tumblr is owned by Yahoo, so they have a different set of spying protocols they use your Tumblr follows:.
- Location
- what do you look
- what websites you just visit
- what websites you go after
with this information, they build a profile of you that they sell to advertisers. After paying $ 1.1 billion for Tumblr, you better believe that Yahoo! will milk it for all it's worth.
For those who signed up for Tumblr before all this, you can delete your account and it will eventually be permanently deleted Yahoo! servers. Unless you Reblogged. This content will be around ... forever. This, scientists say, is a long time.
espionage Social Media on Twitter
Twitter is all about tracking data to better present their Promoted Tweets. Basic information they follow is:
- Your IP address
- Your position
- Who you follow
- Your activity on Twitter
This stuff quite standard, and is not nearly as invasive as some of the other social media espionage happens. Most sites track these data. Our site does not, but we will show you how easy it is to find some of these data according to your IP address.
A big point in favor of Twitter is the way they are not part of the PRISM US surveillance program. Not only is it a scary name, but it is terrifying agency that seeks to follow all Internet activity. All. Remember when only criminals were followed wherever they went? Congratulations, the unsuspecting user, you're too in a track approach "assume guilt first" on-line monitoring.
This idea, that you are hunted by the government before you have done something wrong, is really scary appearance spy social media. Some sites make money off deal with advertisers is an old concept that is applied to the new technology. How these data can be used by the government and the pirates, is what really makes social media an espionage subject that you should be informed of, and fight against.
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