I don't know if either of these contribute to an understanding of Facebook's view of privacy, but I recently came across two pages which surprised me in some way.
The first[1] is a user's search history, which allows a user to see what terms they entered into the search box, going back apparently to nearly the beginning of the website (I think I saw records back to 2005).
The second[2] is a list of advertising topics or preferences. These, I believe, are generated automatically from pages you have "Liked" in the past. For instance, I found a listing for an obscure city in Japan that had the same name as a radio station I had subscribed to.
In both cases I guess it's some form of "benevolence" for them to freely admit they had this data and to allow you to edit it. At the same time, the second page in particular struck me as disturbing because there are at least 3 different settings which already ask that my interests and preferences not be used for advertising purposes. I had specifically set those options against targeting. Yet, here they are, gathering that information anyways.
[1]https://www.facebook.com/me/allactivity
[2]https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/edit/
The first[1] is a user's search history, which allows a user to see what terms they entered into the search box, going back apparently to nearly the beginning of the website (I think I saw records back to 2005).
The second[2] is a list of advertising topics or preferences. These, I believe, are generated automatically from pages you have "Liked" in the past. For instance, I found a listing for an obscure city in Japan that had the same name as a radio station I had subscribed to.
In both cases I guess it's some form of "benevolence" for them to freely admit they had this data and to allow you to edit it. At the same time, the second page in particular struck me as disturbing because there are at least 3 different settings which already ask that my interests and preferences not be used for advertising purposes. I had specifically set those options against targeting. Yet, here they are, gathering that information anyways.
[1]https://www.facebook.com/me/allactivity
[2]https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/edit/