[email protected] - As a Meta employee, I can honestly tell you what we know, and I do not know how we obtain all of it.

  • Your full name
  • Your full home address
  • Your phone number
  • Your e-mail
  • Your government ID
  • Your consumer report history *  The name of every family member
  • The name of every friend
  • The name of their family / friends
  • Your marital status
  • If you are faithful to your partner
  • Your work history (all of it)
  • Your education history (all of it)
  • Your travel history (going back years)
  • Your birth gender
  • Your gender ID
  • Your sexuality
  • Your sexual preferences
  • How often you’re having sex
  • Your partner’s details (all the above)
  • Your political ideology
  • Your involvement with any group
  • If you protest, we know
  • If you’re unhappy, we know

The amount of information we collect on you is insane.  And we do it all for supposedly marketing and yes, we help the government since they have access to all this too.

So when someone says they want to avoid META or GOOGLE - respect.

  • tarknassus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    4 days ago

    How often you’re having sex

    Can they… help with improving this? Asking for a friend.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    11·
    4 days ago

    The problem is, even if you don’t have an account in Fakebook, it is enogh if an family member or a friend has one, because FB has access to their mail and telephone lists where you appears. Apart of this there are a lot of webservices which share data with Facebook, like some hosts, cloudservices, imgur and a lot of others, perfect to profile everyone.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    Even worse for me. I used to work for Facebook, so they know my social security number and have run a background check on me.

  • listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io
    51·
    5 days ago

    if i had an account decades ago (real names only era), and deleted every post (manually) and my account when a .edu wasn’t going to be required anymore, and I currently use noscript + uBlock origin, apple devices with Brave, how much of this stuff do you think the company has?

    Do you think my name shows up in other people’s accounts even though I don’t have an account?