r/privacy • u/ZwhGCfJdVAy558gD • 1d ago

news Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting

https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/biggest-privacy-erosion-in-10-years-on-googles-policy-change-towards-fingerprinting/
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u/discodatum 1d ago

Thank you for sharing. How has Meta been using fingerprinting for ads? Do you know?

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u/Pristine_Shoe_1805 19h ago

at some point they changed terms of service so that if you ever put the Facebook app on your phone, you gave permission for tracking pretty much everything there outside of their app even when you are not using the app--and that they could continue even if you closed that account.

at some point a colleague and i were tracking terms of service agreements, which is how it got on my radar.

now the issue is you've given such companies permission to use your info, even private, in their AI corpus. (some companies are starting to give choices of what can be used or not)

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u/Which_Shower_62 19h ago

just gotta a full on reddit post on a very niche subreddit from a bot that posts once or twice a year after googling something once. Guess its time to break google. edit: and apple and facebook