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Instagram prototypes handing your location history to Facebook - Eddy13r0 - 10-05-2018

Quote:Instagram has served as a life raft for Facebook’s brand this year amidst an onslaught of scandals including fake news, election interference, social media addiction, and most recently, a security breach that gave hackers the access tokens for 50 million users that could have let them take over their accounts

O.o


RE: Instagram prototypes handing your location history to Facebook - Nyx - 10-05-2018

The title of your thread has nothing to do with what you posted so that is kind of misleading and you also didn't cite a source for your quote. Regardless, Instagram is basically a save haven for Facebook so I wouldn't be surprised when controversy starts surrounding Instagram for some yet unknown privacy violations.


RE: Instagram prototypes handing your location history to Facebook - Nyx - 10-05-2018

Here's your own source by the way: https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/techandscience/instagram-prototypes-handing-your-location-history-to-facebook/ar-BBNXTc7


RE: Instagram prototypes handing your location history to Facebook - mothered - 10-06-2018

Hence one of many reasons I don't deal with social media.

Never have, never will.


RE: Instagram prototypes handing your location history to Facebook - arduinomeat - 10-09-2018

You may not have social media, but social media most probably have data on you. It has been revealed on the news a few years back that FB's "Like" was intrusive and was able to track you. All of these widgets gather data on your browsing, and other tricks probably exist to track everyone.


RE: Instagram prototypes handing your location history to Facebook - Jimbo39238 - 10-09-2018

Despite being on multiple social media platforms, I am irritated about hearing all this when it comes to light. I'd like to get off all the platforms I am on, but at the same time I don't want to.


RE: Instagram prototypes handing your location history to Facebook - mothered - 10-10-2018

(10-09-2018, 09:16 PM)arduinomeat Wrote: You may not have social media, but social media most probably have data on you. It has been revealed on the news a few years back that FB's "Like" was intrusive and was able to track you.

I remember reading a few articles on this.

That's why I have dedicated systems based on their usability. One for sensitive account logins, and absolutely no other form of navigation- log In, log out and shutdown. And others that have fingerprinting (browser, sensors, operating system, hardware, location etc) and tracking disabled & anonymized. Of course, I have not distributed any element of personal Information.


RE: Instagram prototypes handing your location history to Facebook - Cr3aTor - 10-10-2018

(10-10-2018, 05:06 AM)mothered Wrote:
(10-09-2018, 09:16 PM)arduinomeat Wrote: You may not have social media, but social media most probably have data on you. It has been revealed on the news a few years back that FB's "Like" was intrusive and was able to track you.

I remember reading a few articles on this.

That's why I have dedicated systems based on their usability. One for sensitive account logins, and absolutely no other form of navigation- log In, log out and shutdown. And others that have fingerprinting (browser, sensors, operating system, hardware, location etc) and tracking disabled & anonymized. Of course, I have not distributed any element of personal Information.

Wow this is actually a great habit for protecting your privacy. I got dedicated systems for security, basic browsing (the regular desktop) and one for getting rid of easily, but never thought about something like that.
Thanks for sharing this.


RE: Instagram prototypes handing your location history to Facebook - mothered - 10-10-2018

(10-10-2018, 10:55 AM)Cr3aTor Wrote:
(10-10-2018, 05:06 AM)mothered Wrote:
(10-09-2018, 09:16 PM)arduinomeat Wrote: You may not have social media, but social media most probably have data on you. It has been revealed on the news a few years back that FB's "Like" was intrusive and was able to track you.

I remember reading a few articles on this.

That's why I have dedicated systems based on their usability. One for sensitive account logins, and absolutely no other form of navigation- log In, log out and shutdown. And others that have fingerprinting (browser, sensors, operating system, hardware, location etc) and tracking disabled & anonymized. Of course, I have not distributed any element of personal Information.

Wow this is actually a great habit for protecting your privacy. I got dedicated systems for security, basic browsing (the regular desktop) and one for getting rid of easily, but never thought about something like that.
Thanks for sharing this.

You're welcome.

It's good to read you also have systems suited to the tasks they're dedicated to perform. In terms of not being Infected by keyloggers, RATs, malware etc, you boot off a Live CD/USB. I'm sure you're already aware of this.


RE: Instagram prototypes handing your location history to Facebook - Cr3aTor - 10-10-2018

(10-10-2018, 11:11 AM)mothered Wrote:
(10-10-2018, 10:55 AM)Cr3aTor Wrote:
(10-10-2018, 05:06 AM)mothered Wrote: I remember reading a few articles on this.

That's why I have dedicated systems based on their usability. One for sensitive account logins, and absolutely no other form of navigation- log In, log out and shutdown. And others that have fingerprinting (browser, sensors, operating system, hardware, location etc) and tracking disabled & anonymized. Of course, I have not distributed any element of personal Information.

Wow this is actually a great habit for protecting your privacy. I got dedicated systems for security, basic browsing (the regular desktop) and one for getting rid of easily, but never thought about something like that.
Thanks for sharing this.

You're welcome.

It's good to read you also have systems suited to the tasks they're dedicated to perform. In terms of not being Infected by keyloggers, RATs, malware etc, you boot off a Live CD/USB. I'm sure you're already aware of this.

Yup, in fact the "getting easy rid of" system is running almost only on a LIVE system. In terms of the other systems, I use the LIVE system only if I'm skeptical about some software.