Meta sold millions of users data to Netflix to tailor content

[chineebai]

It’s crazy how they can tailor content to you based on your data. I still don’t know how all this shyt works
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Do they just take the ones and zeros from your data, input it into your Netflix ecosystem, and now you see ads and shows about weddings because you were browsing engagement rings?

Depends on the meta inbox api that this article is referring to. For example it could have contained data like name, email, content type, etc. Meta probably already did the heavy lifting in terms of categorizing what a DM contains like subject type, message content type. So if 2 people were discussing movies, Netflix then can take that data and either apply it on a macro level or actual targeting the same user. For example Netflix potentially can see the age gender location from the api and then combine that with some sort of content data. Or they can match the same meta sent Netflix and literally see that this user mentioned a tv show, then Netflix can recommend similar shows, etc.

Back in 2011 there weren’t much privacy laws, there still isn’t except for a few states. But anytime you use a platform where you have to sign in you pretty much sign your privacy rights away so they can do what they will with that data.

As a country we need to adopt similar measures to Europe and their GDPR laws which governs this type of shyt. None of this political theater bs we’ve been dealing with.

 

[Greenhornet]

obviously im not gonna stop people from wanting their own info and a piece of the $ from distribution

but if its just sales and recommendations, I dont see how this is a negative. The only blurred line is how much info they can extract and use against you and from where... DMs are obviously confidential, but where you would get alot of feedback from direct conversation, based on entertainment. They should just allow you to toggle the option on or off.
realistically, we should get a portion of our algorithm, how about in form of whichever company desires it... we get discount to their service?

 

[Sir Richard Spirit]

From the article,

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