CharlieB
Junior Walker and the Allstars
- Location
- Therivermeadowatthepileofstones
There was a thread with this title in P & CA that I posted in last June. I was going to add to the debate with some newer information, but that thread is closed now.
Anyway, just wanting to add to this, bear with me - this is a long story, but I've a valid question at the end.
After a Facebook page was created (not by me) in my real name about 7 years ago and was in a great deal of likelihood linked to my identity theft at the time, I have always avoided FB.
I do fully understand the value of FB as a marketing and fundraising tool, particularly in the Charity world to which I belong.
One of the Charities I work for in a voluntary role has started to buy advertising on FB, and as Finance head of that Charity, I need to receive billing information from them.
Thus it was with great reluctance that I had to create a page about two months ago.
This I did using a completely false name and DoB, and with the official contact email address I have at the Charity.
I also resolved never to connect to FB using any device I owned, rather I would only ever use shared machines at the Charity's premises that have a generic User ID and password, when I needed to access.
My aim by doing this and using a false ID to create the page was that no connection could be made to the real me by IP address or email.
Lo and behold - after four weeks, whatever algorithms exist in the back end of FB discovered my true identity.
This I know because suddenly adverts that are targeted marketing I see in my personal email inbox on a daily basis, e.g. cycling and music sites etc. started to appear on my false ID's FB page.
Additionally, and more tellingly, emails from FB relating to the false me are now starting to appear in my personal email inbox from time to time.
Just out of interest, now for the first time I have a login, I had a look at the page created in my real name all those years ago to see what was there. Golly gosh, it's updated my employer name for me. How kind.
This is data harvesting on a grand scale, and I am quite angry and distressed that this can happen.
So my question is - how will the advent of GDPR in May affect this data harvesting? Will it stop?
Anyway, just wanting to add to this, bear with me - this is a long story, but I've a valid question at the end.
After a Facebook page was created (not by me) in my real name about 7 years ago and was in a great deal of likelihood linked to my identity theft at the time, I have always avoided FB.
I do fully understand the value of FB as a marketing and fundraising tool, particularly in the Charity world to which I belong.
One of the Charities I work for in a voluntary role has started to buy advertising on FB, and as Finance head of that Charity, I need to receive billing information from them.
Thus it was with great reluctance that I had to create a page about two months ago.
This I did using a completely false name and DoB, and with the official contact email address I have at the Charity.
I also resolved never to connect to FB using any device I owned, rather I would only ever use shared machines at the Charity's premises that have a generic User ID and password, when I needed to access.
My aim by doing this and using a false ID to create the page was that no connection could be made to the real me by IP address or email.
Lo and behold - after four weeks, whatever algorithms exist in the back end of FB discovered my true identity.
This I know because suddenly adverts that are targeted marketing I see in my personal email inbox on a daily basis, e.g. cycling and music sites etc. started to appear on my false ID's FB page.
Additionally, and more tellingly, emails from FB relating to the false me are now starting to appear in my personal email inbox from time to time.
Just out of interest, now for the first time I have a login, I had a look at the page created in my real name all those years ago to see what was there. Golly gosh, it's updated my employer name for me. How kind.
This is data harvesting on a grand scale, and I am quite angry and distressed that this can happen.
So my question is - how will the advent of GDPR in May affect this data harvesting? Will it stop?