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cgod  ·  2428 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ever Record a Video on Facebook? Facebook Still Has It.

What irks me is that I don't use Facebook but they have a file on me because everyone I know uses it and Facebook has their contacts.





user-inactivated  ·  2428 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As a business owner, Facebook had more data on your business than you do. The Facebook apps were sending everything from phone locations, GPS coordinates, picture meta-data etc.

That makes me think, I wonder if you can get a good enough attorney and demand that Facebook turn over all the data it has on your business?

kleinbl00  ·  2428 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's not entirely accurate. Facebook has more data useful to them on any given business than the business owner. They have a set of categories that you may or may not fit into. They have a geolocation probably. They have a list of check-ins. They have any user-submitted photos (which become check-ins). However, the actual amount of useful data catalogued by Facebook is paltry; their basic approach is "pssst - you checked in at this place, tell us everything you know about it!" which gives them an "ask random strangers in the crowd"-level intelligence.

More than that, the business owner has to tell Facebook. The categories they auto-propagate when you purchase advertising is pathetic. Facebook is not an intelligent agent. It's a big messy blob of uncollated, uncorrelated factoids.

user-inactivated  ·  2428 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I should have said "customers" and not "business." You are correct.

tacocat  ·  2428 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes. They basically know everyone by association and have data or communication on everyone based on this