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|u/Is12345aweakpassword - 1 day
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|Incoming $25 fine That’ll teach em!
|u/TheRageDragon - 1 day
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|No that's your cut of the class action settlement if you're lucky.
|u/diablosinmusica - 1 day
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|That will take 8 years in court.
|u/joseph4th - 1 day
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|More like a dollar and 25 cents. Oh, and a coupon.
|u/Sprinkle_Puff - 1 day
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|I can’t wait for my payout of .07 cents!!
|u/throw-away_867-5309 - 1 day
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|"unintentionally" probably means "sold and then got caught"
|u/muchaschicas - 1 day
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|Unintentionally is certainly doing Olympic level heavy lifting.
|u/zaphodp3 - 1 day
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|Did you read the article? Apparently Meta’s tracking pixels collect
|form data on any website that adds their tracking (almost everyone
|adds them btw). In this case it turned out a private form wasn’t
|configured correctly by Uber to be private and so the Meta pixels read
|those forms too. Seems more like human error than malice to me because
|bugs like that are incredibly common
|u/ScreamoPhilips - 1 day
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|The more important questions are - what have Meta and TikTok done
|with this data, and what other sites are vulnerable to this mistake?
|u/Alan_Shutko - 1 day
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|Honestly, probably nothing. So many websites use their tracking
|systems and there's such a volume of data coming in they probably
|didn't even notice it was there. As for what other sites are
|vulnerable to this mistake? Seems like I hear about one big site
|doing this a month or so, and probably thousands we don't hear
|about.
|u/ScreamoPhilips - 1 day
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|>they probably didn't even notice it was there Do we know
|that? Did anyone else have access to the data?
|u/zaphodp3 - 1 day
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|I really don’t know how useful Uber driver ssns are to meta.
|It’s what a few hundred thousand people? Compared to the
|billions of users they have. If it was the SSNs of a more
|affluent group of people, maybe.
|u/_CMDR_ - 1 day
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|There is a browser extension that nullifies Facebook’s tracking
|pixels, highly recommend.
|u/ScreamoPhilips - 1 day
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|>There is a browser extension that What is it called? What
|browser?
|u/helalla - 1 day
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|Could be 'facebook container' cus thats the one i know
|u/_CMDR_ - 1 day
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|Facebook container. In Firefox. Highly recommend getting away
|from Chrome due to it being basically a data mine for
|Alphabet/Google.
|u/VoilaVoilaWashington - 1 day
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|I use Chrome for one thing only - Facebook. With a fake name.
|Mostly for Marketplace and such. I figure they can both have
|all the data from there.
|u/oeynhausener - 44 minutes
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|Pretty sure you can use Ublock Origin to achieve that on most
|browsers (mobile included), but it may require checking some
|boxes in the settings
|u/Vabla - 1 day
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|> collect form data on any website That is a lot of focused effort
|for a "bug".
|u/Mawngee - 1 day
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|Error by Uber/Lyft, malice by meta.
|u/AModeratelyFunnyGuy - 1 day
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|Nope, but nice guess!
|u/4-Vektor - 1 day
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|This is one of the reasons why I find the 800 million Euro fine for Meta
|by the EU is totally appropriate. Otherwise these data hoarders won’t
|ever start to comply with privacy related laws.
|u/Spydartalkstocat - 1 day
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|Fines should start at 10% of gross revenue. Otherwise it's just a cost
|of doing business. 800 million is less than 1%. For comparison it
|would be someone making $100,000 a year being fined $590. It's
|miniscule and pointless. It's a rounding error for a company that
|generate $134 billion in 2023
|u/DarkMarxSoul - 1 day
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|100% agree. Flat fines are ridiculous.
|u/VoilaVoilaWashington - 1 day
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|> Fines should start at 10% of gross revenue. It depends on what
|it is. If a company is caught defrauding consumers of a few pennies
|on a transaction here and there via a glitch, it should be a
|multiple of the profit from that. If it was a $10 000 glitch, it
|should be $100 000 (plus legal costs). If it's a major and
|deliberate breach across the whole organization, then it should be a
|fine like you said plus mandatory termination of the seniormost
|employees who knew about it. "Facebook must terminate its CEO to
|continue operating in the EU."
|u/axonxorz - 1 day
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|>Fines should start at 10% of gross revenue. GDPR violations can be
|as high as 4% of _global_ revenue. There's teeth there.
|u/ChuckyRocketson - 1 day
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|And nobody questions why an employer is sending employee data to TikTok
|and Facebook?
|u/2_short_2_shy - 1 day
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|It's 2024. Do you really question it?
|u/DutchMuffin - 1 day
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|you have to give Uber/Lyft your SSN when you sign up to drive. they
|mistakenly didn't mark the SSN field as private, so it ended up in
|Meta/TikTok's trackers. you'd know this if you read even half of the
|article
|u/vm_linuz - 1 day
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|"They're not our workers but we have their SSNs"
|u/lllllllll0llllllllll - 1 day
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|That’s how it works with independent contractors to get their 10-99s
|if they don’t have an EIN.
|u/blueblurspeedspin - 1 day
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|Nah it's a function of the system so it's intentional. You gotta save
|face with a half truth. Makes it easier to lie.
|u/batkave - 1 day
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|"unintentionally" sure sure
|u/Herebec - 1 day
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|Meta and Tiktok: Stop sending us these.. we already have them!
|u/BokehDude - 1 day
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|Isn’t TikTok owned by a Chinese Company, that’s fucked up.
|u/Monarc73 - 1 day
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|"Unintentionally" seems a bit of a stretch.
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|u/iusedtohavepowers - 1 day
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|I wouldn't even be surprised if they sent blood samples, loose hairs and
|finger prints at this point.
|u/Humans_Suck- - 1 day
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|So put their ceos in jail then
|u/MithandirsGhost - 1 day
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|I sure wish all businesses were held to the standards and penalties as
|healthcare when it came to these kind of lapses.
|u/Various_Alfalfa_1078 - 1 day
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|SSN Numbers! Same dickheads who probably write ATM Machine's. Numbers is
|redundant, it's SSN's! Don't get me started on people who think the past
|tense of text is texted! It's text.
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