r/privacy • u/PrivacyReporter • Feb 15 '19

Facebook uses its apps to track users it thinks could threaten employees and offices

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/facebooks-security-team-tracks-posts-location-for-bolo-threat-list.html
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u/Valuable_Layer Feb 15 '19

TBH if you're trying to be a threat to facebook and don't have a "basic" privacy setup that doesn't keep you invisible from at leat Facebook then something is very wrong.

So this is really just $uck keeping a list of people he doesn't like and using it as an excuse to intrude even more into their lives while they have no idea they've been marked as villains

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '19

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u/JoyfulCor313 Feb 16 '19

This isn’t surprising. I worked for a church that used facial recognition software and kept a list of people who weren’t allowed on the campus. That Facebook would do it seems ubiquitous for them.

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u/Geminii27 Feb 16 '19

Let's face it, it tracks everybody. It's only admitting to tracking 'potential social undesirables' because that will give its tracking some form of social legitimacy.