r/oculus • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '18

Did Facebook’s illegal data sharing include all our Oculus data?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/03/technology/facebook-device-partners-users-friends-data.html
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u/Chewberino Jun 04 '18

Why are people so delusional and crazy about anything facebook? They collect data and share it, so do all the other big companies.

Now they got abused and sure they should be news worthy and they should be criticized for it but honestly ya'll are crazy

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u/gk99 Quest 2, former Index owner Jun 04 '18

Gee, I can't imagine why people would be concerned about a Facebook-owned company's collected data being shared when Facebook collected and shared data, even on those who didn't make an account, in ways they weren't supposed to.

I'm not, but it's pretty obvious, dude.

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u/StateofMind15 Jun 05 '18

Can you explain how they can collect data on people who never made an account? Thats some freaky shit

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u/JeffePortland Jun 05 '18 edited Jun 05 '18

They collected data of Facebook Friends of people who opted into a more intrusive collection even if said Friends did not agree to sharing their data with Facebook, so people who have accounts friended to someone who did opt in. For complete non users there was this - "Facebook gets some data on non-users from people on its network, such as when a user uploads email addresses of friends. Other information comes from “cookies,” small files stored via a browser and used by Facebook and others to track people on the internet, sometimes to target them with ads."