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Facebook and 7 Cups privacy

User Profile: RarelyCharlie
RarelyCharlie August 21st, 2019

In 2015 Facebook announced that it would start collecting data from Like buttons on other websites:

We...will now begin including information from pages that use Facebook's Like button and similar social features...

This appears to include 7 Cups. Indeed, it appears to include the page in this forum you are reading right now.

Data is shared with Facebook even if you don't click the Like button, you don't have a Facebook account, or you are logged out of Facebook:

Even if someone is not a Facebook user or is not logged in, Facebook's social plug-ins collect the address of the Web page being visited and the Internet address of the visitor as soon as the page is loaded--clicking on the Like button is not required. If enough sites participate, that permits Facebook to assemble a vast amount of data about Internet users' browsing habits.

Research in 2013 had already shown that:

...easily accessible digital records of behavior, Facebook Likes, can be used to automatically and accurately predict a range of highly sensitive personal attributes including: sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious and political views, personality traits, intelligence, happiness, use of addictive substances, parental separation, age, and gender.

Now (2019) Facebook has announced that it is rolling out a feature that tells Facebook users what off-Facebook data has been collected about them:

View a summary of information that Facebook receives about your activity on other apps and websites.

Is this new feature going to expose the fact that 7 Cups has been leaking data to Facebook? Does 7 Cups have any plans to tighten its control over users' privacy as a result?

@7CupsCommunity

Charlie

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User Profile: 7CupsCommunity
7CupsCommunity August 21st, 2019

@RarelyCharlie

Thank you for your query! We will look into it and get back to you

User Profile: 7CupsCommunity
7CupsCommunity August 27th, 2019

@RarelyCharlie

We are aware of these issues and are actively working on appropriate updates. Thank you for the tag!