Facebook still tracks you, even if you Deactivate your account

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Quoted from: Facebook actively tracks users with disabled accounts
  • Facebook tracks users with disabled accounts as if the account were active.
  • The social network doesn’t mention this practice in its data policy.
  • Facebook states that disabling accounts is meant to be used to hide their accounts, but not as a means of privacy.
Now, thanks to a report from CNET, we know that Facebook tracks and stores data on users who have deactivated their accounts.
When it comes down to ditching Facebook, the social network allows users to deactivate or delete their accounts. In either case, most people likely believe that Facebook would stop actively collecting and targeting them with ads. They would be wrong.

When talking with CNET, Facebook stated that the option to deactivate one’s account was to hide it from others online. According to the company, the setting was never a means for data privacy.

What makes this situation worse is that Facebook doesn’t outline this practice in its data policy.
 

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