Is it possible to stop Facebook spying on you?

adverts? 😉

AFAIK Facebook and Whatsapp aren’t allowed to share data. I’ve certainly never had anything to suggest this is the case (mind you I wouldn’t)

It’s when Facebook starts crawling your Tinder history that things will get messy 😉

i always think people are just being a wee bit too self aggrandizing with this spying patter.

Honestly, nobody cares. All facebook want you do is click and avdert! 😆 There isn’t another person at the end looking into you personally!

Personally, I prefer targeted ads instead of random ads. They can be quite helpful at times.

I posted a thread (and received much bile) about keeping pictures of children off facebook a year or two ago. My paranoia being that Facebook would eventually be able to predict what said children would look like and would already know huge amounts about them the second they registered an account, and with targeted advertising through mobile devices like google glass they would get precise targeted adverts from companies who had been sold vast amounts of data about them since birth.

I’m noticing an increasing trend for people to post their baby scans, never mind newborn pictures. It’s only a matter of time before facebook knows more about us than our closest friends.

All facebook want you do is click an advert

And all I want is not to be pestered by adverts, none of which I’m going to click on.

And all I want is not to be pestered by adverts, none of which I’m going to click on.

buying a premier subscription on here might help that a little, Whitestone… 🙂

Rachel

One thing that genuinely creeped me out was that i changed my surname 20 years ago, so pre-Facebook and the internet being mainstream at all by deedpoll back to my mum’s maiden name and i had never got on with my dad.

Somehow Facebook has sent me adverts with those Sweatshirts with my old surname on with “Team Greenhill” (my old surname) on?

How does it now what my previous surname was when i have never entered it anywhere on the internet to my knowledge?

no way

How does it now what my previous surname was when i have never entered it anywhere on the internet to my knowledge?

That seems very strange!

Any siblings still use your fathers name?

Are you connected to them in any way?

hat seems very strange!

Any siblings still use your fathers name?

Are you connected to them in any way?

Yep, thats what creeps me out, my mum, sister and i all decided to do it 20 years ago, i’d got engaged to a girl at Uni. and came to the conclusion that i didn’t want to get married with fathers surname as we’d not seen him since i was 8-9 years old. My mu and sister decided to do the same, so neither has my old surname and we have no contact at all since that age with any of his family.

My mu and sister decided to do the same, so neither has my old surname and we have no contact at all since that age with any of his family.

You might not have contacted him (or any of them) but that doesn’t mean they’re not searching for you. The suggested contacts thing is two-way and feeds into everything else.

Adblock+, Ghostery and of course, FB Purity, to actually hide the stuff you don’t want. This is on a proper computer rather than a phone though…

Facebook is irritating, the scary stuff is happening behind the scenes. That car insurance price or house insurance is based on your postcode. One of the big drivers is not how much car crime there is on that area but what individuals look like.

They’ve taken postcode, looked up Experian, FSS or acorn to work out what kind of income you have, what papers you read, approximate health info and your socio demographic. Oh and probably where you shop and typical products bought.

Because it’s at 20-odd houses it’s not “personal”. But the price you get is how willing they are to do business with you and they’ll price themselves to be uncompetitive. That’s fine until they all start doing it and suddenly it’s a fortune because the area round your audi are all alky gits who make lots of claims.

I’m breaking out the tin hat and paying cash for everything. Including my counselling…

If I even so much as look at anything on Ebay or Amazon I get bombarded with adverts on Facebook for similar items.

Just posted on the “Clean eating” thread and now have an advert for some “healthy food” website!
Gosh, sounds just like STW! 😯

And all I want is not to be pestered by adverts, none of which I’m going to click on.
buying a premier subscription on here might help that a little, Whitestone…

Rachel
But thanks to one of those random ads tied to my search history popping up here, and my clicking on it out of curiosity, I now have a job that I’m enjoying more than I imagined I possibly could.

Something creeped me out recently….occasionally I use my phone’s front facing camera as a mirror. Well, the other day I was squeezing a spot and making sure I was making a clean job of it. Shortly after as I was browsing the internet I had loads of adverts pop up for Clearasil products. How the hell my camera knew what I was doing was way above my head!

That car insurance price or house insurance is based on your postcode. One of the big drivers is not how much car crime there is on that area but what individuals look like.

Never heard of that.
Source ?

Don’t get me wrong the incidence rates and vehicle are a large part of it, but so too is the individual. Big data is profiling individual based on factors mostly driven from postcode.

I don’t work in car insurance but the techniques that are being touted round my industry are cited as having been successful in car/ house/pet insurance. The price certain individuals will tolerate differs so you don’t need pare back prices, and for the ones that have greater propensity to claim – say high alcohol buying and high smoking rates indicating poorer socio economic profile – you increase prices beyond that individual’s price point and acquire more profitable business.

It’s a murky world and hard to establish the array of factors that are behind the decision making algorithms as data feeds have up to 1000 items that are profiled at each postcode. Clubcard, bank create an income stream by collecting and sharing depersonalised data of purchase histories.

The EU GDPR regulation is coming but because this is postcode data and not individual based data it falls outside the scope of the proposed directive.

Shortly after as I was browsing the internet I had loads of adverts pop up for Clearasil products. How the hell my camera knew what I was doing was way above my head!

Probably either analysis of recorded speech or, if you were using the “mirror mode” of your camera software then it might figured you were a candidate. The software might also record the movements with accelerometers and make a guess about what you were doing with the camera function.

The background audio analysis is getting quite creepy, every time you load a search page or use the google search app you’re likely being recorded at the same time. When this ends is unclear. Additionally Google will use sounds previously recorded in the background; have a look into your phone’s background data use figures….. it’s around 15% data analysis traffic on a standard Android handset.

BTW Facebook is analysing all photos uploaded in near real-time as well.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/show-facebook-computer-vi/elafbihhbfmfihdflghclaclcilcnmie

Based on some experiments over the last few days they’re using this to screen all images for “banned content” in realtime at upload. This image:
cannot be uploaded. Adding gaussian blur and reducing the contrast will fool the filter….for now. The situation is similar with youtube blocking known banned content [see, eg, copyright-infringing content now encoded with additional background imagery to bypass the current state of the filter]

FACE IT SUKKERS, ALL YOUR DATA IS BELONG TO US

Hmmm.

Last night I was having a WhatsApp conversation about Battlefield 1. Other than that conversation I didn’t do anything on line related to the Battlefield 1

On my facebook feed this morning there’s an advert for Battlefield 1 😕

toldja!

https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account

every time you load a search page or use the google search app you’re likely being recorded at the same time. When this ends is unclear.

You can listen to the snippets it’s recorded.

So Google Records All The Microphone Audio All The Time, After All?

I did turn the cloud sync off – I have no idea where that one photo has even come from, I presume it sync’d from somewhere before I turned it off – I have never used a cloud based system before. To be honest I’d be quite happy to go back to dumb phone, laptop & camera all being separate. Grump mumble mumble

Two months later:

“Help, how do I retrieve all my photos from a broken phone?”

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/10/so-google-records-all-the-microphone-audio-all-the-time-after-all/

Speculation and conjecture are kinds of facts.

Last night I was having a WhatsApp conversation about Battlefield 1. Other than that conversation I didn’t do anything on line related to the Battlefield 1

Are you sure?

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/battlefield-1/page/3#post-8036116

3 months ago, not last night with the ad popping up today

You can listen to the snippets it’s recorded.

Remind me to abuse this fact on my mate’s machines when I visit and they haven’t logged out… or alternatively record other snippets to pollute their google account history 😉

3 months ago, not last night with the ad popping up today

Yeah but you thought about it yesterday didn’t you. TINFOILHATTTACK

3 months ago, not last night with the ad popping up today

Battlefield is trending again as a new DLC has been announced, Facebook knows you’ve posted in a thread about in the past and the 2 provide an advert.

Facebook’s AI unlocks the ability to search photos by what’s in them

Nice. Can’t possibly go wrong 😛

http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/uk_58e4bb44e4b0f4a923b391a6?ir=UK

– Facy_b now using instant image recognition tech to prevent revenge porn uploads.