Meta is Collecting Consumers Data from Thousands of Firms

Consumer Reports conducted an experiment which revealed that Instagram and Facebook collect your private data from thousands of firms.

The company is also the largest reporter of potentially child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), yet many of these reports are sent in a fashion that raises legal concerns.

To find out where parent firm Meta gets its personal data from for targeted advertising, Consumer Reports sought the assistance of over 700 volunteers.

The Markup, an American nonprofit news publication, says the study found that Meta collected data from an average of 2,230 companies.

Markup assisted Consumer Reports in finding study participants. The last three years’ worth of participant data were retrieved from Facebook settings and sent to Consumer Reports in an archive.

A total of 186,892 companies shared data concerning them to the social network, according to Consumer Reports. 2,230 companies on average shared the data of each study participant to Facebook. This figure varied widely, with the data from some participants suggesting that over 7,000 companies submitted their data. […]
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