I Just Found Out

@Carissimi It is disgraceful. They're sort of evolving us using tech into mind controlled comsumers.

And we know it’s not just advertising, it’s keeping a profile on us. Our purchases. Our politics. Our habits...our exercise...one of the apps that reports to FB is my exercise website. It is outrageous. In this tense political atmosphere with cancel culture threatening all of us for having the “wrong” opinions, it’s too much information in the wrong hands. @Wraithorn

@Carissimi Indeed. Ol' George Orwell must be going nuts rolling around in his grave yelling,"I told you so !"

I know who it is. It’s in my settings. There is a list of businesses, apps, and websites that send my activity with them to FB. I hardly look into my settings, but looked today, and found this list. They say it’s not extensive, and there may be more not listed. It’s outrageous that FB knows what I buy, what comments I leave, and what I look at. It’s none of their business. I feel violated. @SW-User

@Carissimi They don't send your information to Facebook directly. They sell it to third-parties. You can opt out of some of these types of tracking but you will not get rid of all them. Well, actually u can get rid of them, but it's a far bigger inconvenience to evade all the trackers as it makes the internet a not very fun place.

I buy from a department store, then they send my info about my purchases to FB, then what I bought shows up in ads on FB. I’m not sure I can opt out because when I tried to delete this history, it said FB would still receive this info about my off FB activity whether I deleted it or not. I think FB has a contract with all these businesses. Amazon is one of them. Everything I do on Amazon goes to FB. It’s not right. @SW-User

@SmartKat 👍️ The book 1984 by George Orwell

[b]B[/b]ig [b]B[/b]rother is watching you.
Today
[b]B[/b]ig [b]B[/b]usiness is watching you.

I agree. It’s too late. Where this goes from here, I don’t know, but that Chinese social scoring system is on the horizon, and I think is already in use without us knowing. @SmartKat

I didn’t know. I’m not a big FB user, and had no idea that other businesses were sharing my info with FB. I’m going to contact some businesses and ask them not to, or lose my custom. @SW-User

@Carissimi are you using a pc?

No. @SW-User

@Carissimi I meant if FB were passing that info on to the police...

...but yeah, you're right...being monitored like we are is a legally very shady area, if not an outright illegal thing for FB to do..

...that's why I got rid of it..

I bet they still keep tabs on you through your friends and family. @Mandalorian

@Carissimi more than likely...that Zuckerberg is evil to the core..

I don’t. It’s not browsing. It’s purchasing from a major department store (as one example), and that store reports back to FB on my activity and interaction with them. If that’s not “big brother,” I don’t know what is. FB says even if I delete this feature, the business will still report back to them, I just won’t know it. @walabby

@Carissimi That sux.. :/

It’s big brother. @BananaBrown