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Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies – The Markup (themarkup.org)
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Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. On average, each participant in the study had their data sent to Facebook by 2,230 companies. That number varied significantly, with some panelists’ data listing over 7,000 companies providing their data.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago

I've have never once had my credit card details stolen or lost money because I hd an account 'hacked' or whatever. And yet, my family and in laws regularly have the card details stolen. They're completely oblivious to the link between their lack of privacy considerations and getting their data stolen. So even significant real world impact still doesn't change some people's behaviour 🤦🏻‍♀️

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