[seattle_spring]

Neither FB nor Google "resell" your data. They use your data to put you into categories. Advertisers choose which categories to advertise to, and if your data puts you into one of those chosen categories then you're shown the ad.

[tanilama]

You will be amazed how flexible they allow advertiser to specify the criteria, and how easy that with a handful filters they can target as niche as tens of people in the same area as a cohort.

I'd suggest you turn of all the personalization ads option they provided so that you can avoid to be precisely targeted

[rimliu]

See e.g. this: http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...

[tyingq]

How does that jive with the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal? Facebook seems pretty clearly in the reseller category.

[seattle_spring]

3+ years ago, their Graph API provided much more information than it does today. App developers (CA, in this case) used that open API to get information about the app user's friends, and then stored that data on their own servers (which is and always was against Facebook's Terms of Service).

[nasredin]

>>>(which is and always was against Facebook's Terms of Service)

Nobody reads TOS.

Car analogy: leaving you car in a bad neighborhood, unlocked, key in the ignition, door open, with a "do not steal or we will send you a threatening letter demanding our car back" note.

[newscracker]

To the GP's point, the fact that Facebook has stated recently that it will reduce the information provided to third party apps shows that there was still a bigger leak than it cared to admit all along.

[tyingq]

Hrm, okay. I'll follow it, but it feels like a "don't ask, don't tell" thing at the moment. Where FB reaped benefits while pretending to be vigilant.

[seattle_spring]

I'm not defending what happened, I'm just encouraging people to get their facts straight.

[cjhopman]

That doesn't make sense. By your reasoning, Google is reselling your location data by allowing Android apps to access it after getting your permission.