University student Zamaan Qureshi, who works on social media for the ad-hoc group of activists who call themselves the Real Facebook Oversight Board, was gobsmacked …
so that they can check and see if they’re affected. Qureshi used the phone lookup feature that “Have I Been Pwned” offers, and he found out that — yep, his data was included in the breach. After investigating a bit more to see just how much data that the world’s largest social network has on him, though, that’s when things started to look even creepier.
“I’ve been aware that Facebook collects user data when you’re not on the Facebook platform, and that was concerning to me,”. “ says that they’re transparent about how they do data collection, so I wanted to see if that’s actually the case.” Basically, he used a still-relatively new Facebook setting that allows users to see what off-Facebook activity is being recorded about them. You can get to this option by choosing Settings & Privacy > Settings > and then click on Off-Facebook Activity under the “Your Facebook Information” menu. Qureshi downloaded that data and then found dozens of folders and subfolders packed with information that Facebook had picked up about him from all over the internet.
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