Here’s the Data Facebook Can Pull From Your Selfies.
The Wall Street Journal today listed all the data that Facebook can get when uploading a photo , based on Facebook’s privacy and data collection policies. The list illustrates what we said earlier: Facebook doesn’t need to spy on you through the microphone, because you already let it spy on everything you do .
As the magazine says, Facebook gets your photo, signature and user profiles that you tagged. It examines your photos using facial recognition technology to find out who is in them. (This means that if you take a picture publicly, Facebook can recognize more faces in the frame than you can.) But he also gets much more.
By uploading a photo to Facebook, you share where and when you took the photo, which phone you are using, which specific phone you are using (your unique device ID), your mobile operator, the nearest Wi-Fi beacons and cell towers (which can identify your current location) and more. You will even share your battery level.
You can delete some of this data by editing the EXIF data of the photo or changing the camera settings , but some data is transferred simply by opening the Facebook app. (Most social apps can get the same data – the only difference is whether they promise or choose not to.)
Facebook can then collate all of this data, so Facebook can theoretically record the location of anyone whose face it recognizes, regardless of whether you tag it. He can also correlate this data with everything he already knows about you. And, as we’ve seen, it can make Facebook feel positive .
It’s hard to remember that every time you share a little data with Facebook, it learns so much about you. But as news emerges from Mark Zuckerberg’s Senate testimony, expect to hear a lot more about what you are sharing.
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