Do you ever find it very strange that you and your wife discuss your lawn and landscaping or something even crazier, you discuss great feeding [you’re newly 60 years old… done having children] and the next ad on your Facebook account is an ad for a breast pump! META – Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram track everything about you, your children, your spouse, relatives, and friends. They track social groups, where they gather and frequent, where you shop and spend your money and all this information is sold to marketers.
It’s never been a secret—Facebook collects huge amounts of data on you. Just look on the App Store at the amount of data included on Apple’s privacy labels, which show how much the social network tracks you as you use your iPhone. Among the information gathered by Facebook is your browsing history, location, and search history—things many people would like to keep private. Sure, you can try and limit the amount of data Facebook collects, but it doesn’t change the company’s ethos. Excerpt taken from Forbes Magazine read the full article here.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
| Third-Party Advertising |
| Purchases |
| Purchase History |
| Financial Info |
| Other Financial Info |
| Location |
| Precise Location |
| Coarse Location |
| Contact Info |
| Physical Address |
| Email Address |
| Name |
| Spouse Name |
| Phone Number |
| Other User Contact Info |
| Contacts |
| Contacts |
| User Content |
| Photos or Videos |
| Gameplay Content |
| Other User Content |
| Search History |
| Browsing History |
If you are a church or ministry leader using Facebook for communication with your congregants then you have opened pandora’s box and the BigTech company is collecting information on every single one that is under your care. BigTech knows more about your congregants than their own mother does.
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