A Boring Dystopia

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48,000 companies sent Facebook data on a single person (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's the case here in Canada, and on top of that it was revealed a year ago that many stores were secretly sending in-person/brick-and-mortar purchase data directly to Facebook/Meta without notifying anyone. Because they get a kickback or something, iirc. (I have to check again but I'm pretty sure that even applies if you have no FB account.)

edit to add source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/retailers-sharing-data-meta-1.6737484