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    Facebook’s New Privacy Tool Is a Data Landfill

    Assume that every website you visit tattles on you to the social-media behemoth.
    by Kaitlyn Tiffany Jan 28, 2020 5 minutes
    Source: The Atlantic

    Updated at 4:36 p.m. ET on January 28, 2020.

    Of the 1,081 apps and websites that have been sharing my “activity” with Facebook, Tinder is the chattiest.

    In the past 180 days, it has reported 685 of my “interactions” with its app to Facebook, according to Facebook’s new Off-Facebook Activity tool, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a this morning. The tool lets any Facebook user go into her settings and see a list of apps and websites that have shared her information with Facebook, organized by the most recent time they shared data, and paired with a number indicating how many “interactions” have been shared. The interactions aren’t specified, but examples of what they could be are provided within the tool: “Opened an app; logged in to

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