Hand in hand, following Cambridge Analytica, Facebook had to admit that 87 million user accounts were affected by a scandal of data collection for political purposes. Facebook has also had to explain to the congress a few days ago and aware that he does not want to assume alone, what everyone does in secret, Mark Zuckerberg balance the methods of competition ...
---Accusing competitors to minimize their liability---
It is true that apart from Apple who had tapped the CEO of Facebook, the other giants of the web remained oddly mute, but Mark Zuckerberg has just put an end to this collective hypocrisy, since it reveals that most of the big names have use the same methods. At the same time, we suspected that Facebook was not the only bad actor on the Web regarding data collection and the lack of respect for the privacy of Internet users. Mark Zuckerberg first unveiled these tools to follow the habits of online users, even when they do not have Facebook accounts. He then pointed out the competition, showing that it uses exactly the same methods and said: "Many companies offer this kind of services and, like Facebook, they retrieve information from applications or sites that use them ". He added, "Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn have tools similar to the likes or share buttons that allow people to post things on their platforms. Google has a very popular analytics service. And Amazon, Google and Twitter offer identification tools. These companies, and many others, have advertising boards. By the way, most mobile sites and apps send your information to multiple companies every time you visit them. " Basically, Facebook plays the card of "I'm not the only one, it's even the norm, so if I fall, it will not be all alone ..."
---YouTube, an even more globalized spy?---
The Facebook CEO has also put forward information about YouTube, saying, "When you watch a YouTube video on a site that is not YouTube, your browser sends a request to YouTube." A report is indeed sent via a cookie, with a lot of information in passing. In view of the popularity of YouTube, it's quite disturbing, it's also why yesterday we could read everywhere that the tax site sent information on all French to Google, because a video tutorial on the declaration using Youtube is present on the site, a gateway between the two sites exist to pass information through cookies.
Facebook tries to minimize the scope of the scandal, by trying to show that these practices have trivialized, remains that it becomes more and more worrying, especially as in the framework of Cambridge Analytica we went out of the traditional targeting advertising, but that a political goal was sought, in order to have an impact on presidential campaigns ....
