Signal Fires Straight At Facebook: They Aren’t Building Technology For You, It’s For Your Data
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Signal Fires Straight At Facebook: They Aren’t Building Technology For You, It’s For Your Data

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Signal is having a brilliant 2021. Signal believes that Facebook’s own tools can often reveal the truth about the “dimly concealed within complex, opaquely-rendered systems and fine print designed to be scrolled past.” Signal says they bought some Instagram ads and created multi-variant targeted ad designed to show users the personal data that Facebook collects about and sells access to. Signal collected some specific user characteristics to share in the ads they created “Facebook is more than willing to sell visibility into people’s lives, unless it’s to tell people about how their data is being used,” says Signal. This could just tie in with how Apple is clamping down on apps such as Facebook tracking users across other websites and apps to collect more behavioural data, and serve ads. The way the App Tracking Transparency feature works is that when you open an app on your iPhone, for the first time or after an update, you will be asked, “Allow XYZ to track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites?” The two options you will have at this stage would be “Ask App not to Track” or “Allow”.

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