“Website owners can configure the pixel to track user website interactions such as searches or filling out a form, sending each action to Meta, even if the user doesn’t have an account on Facebook.”
from:
Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies
A Consumer Reports analysis looks at who is sending information about your online activity to Facebook
https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/each-facebook-user-is-monitored-by-thousands-of-companies-a5824207467/
Details Emerge Of Facebook’s Long History Of Spying On Encrypted User Communications Across Different Apps And Service
Privacy from the privacy-violations-are-only-bad-when-somebody-else-does-it dept
Fri, Mar 29th 2024 05:24am – Karl Bode
“One of the things Congress was surprisingly “shocked” about was the fact that TikTok sometimes monitored the behavior of users while they used other apps. But here too, a long line of companies do this including data brokers, fixed line and wireless telecoms, and app makers..”
Project Ghostbuster: Why WhatsApp should not be used in business
“:New allegations show why Meta apps like WhatsApp should not be used in professional circumstances. Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is facing new allegations of allegedly criminal behavior undermining users’ privacy…”
Security:
“The apps in question are YohooTalk, TikTalk, Privee Talk, MeetMe, Nidus, GlowChat, Let’s Chat, Quick Chat, Rafaqat, Chit Chat, Hello Chat, and Wave Chat. Needless to say, if you have any of these apps installed on your devices, delete them immediately.”