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Facebook's shocking revelation of their data collection policy from rarely active profiles or having no profile, now pointing fingers at popular social medias blaming them for doing same
Facebook faces severe waves of anger, outrage and criticism from millions of its users following the recent Cambridge Analytica data scandal in which Facebook is found to have breached its own privacy policy regarding sharing of personal data with third-party users. Facebook have leaked the personal data of almost 87 millions users worldwide and also involved in collecting details of personal phone calls and text messages from millions of android users over years through its mobile application. These series of events have raised doubts among millions of users regarding the privacy and security of their personal and sensitive data over Facebook in the upcoming future also and several users are now restraining themselves from using Facebook. Facebook is now forced to change its privacy policy with new user-friendly settings in which the users will be able to control what data they want Facebook to collect from them and what not.
Further recent revelations by Facebook about their data collection policy is far more shocking. The data from millions of users are collected by Facebook even if they are rarely active or have never posted in Facebook. The fact that will give a huge shock is that Facebook even collects data of millions of people who do not have any Facebook account either. A blog post by Facebook's product management director David Baser explains in what way the personal information of users are collected and shared. Different types of services comprising of social plugins, Facebook logins to other accounts, Facebook Analytics and Facebook ads and measurement tools collect users' information from their vendors who uses Facebook's services and thus Facebook also have the details of a person who does not have any Facebook account. Seems horrifying isn't it? The fact is almost everyone is tracked and recorded somehow does not matter if he/she is a Facebook user or not. Thus Facebook collects each and every data from different apps, login sites and any domain that let you share or access something with Facebook login. The types of information collected as revealed by Baser comprises of computer's IP addresses, type of browser using to access the internet, software running on computer and other material. Thus Facebook collects information from ads and in return let them serve better ads in their platform and even Facebook itself uses this information to improve their own ads and to prevent bots. After revealing everything now David Baser is blaming other popular social medias in his blog that they also do the same and not Facebook is the only one doing it. The names mentioned by him includes Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Amazon and Google. They all have different share or ads or analytics services by which they also collect information from users and almost every other websites do the same. But the fact is even if they are collecting the information they are keeping and using the information without violating privacy of the users. A business should be always done in a clean manner with clients as clients are the base of your business. But Facebook in some cases is adopting unfair means of business and trying to run a monopoly business by disabling real traffic from users' fan pages in Facebook. It will be no time that people will soon get tired of Facebook and will choose any newly developed platform over it that provides data security, marketing and an excellent business facility and revenue. We Boldink Technologies promise to offer very soon a better social media plaform for worldwide users providing the urgent need in respect to current situation.
