#privacy #PersonalInformation #TikTok #Facebook #Uber #Lyft #WebBugs 

"Tracking pixels are small lines of code embedded in images on a site’s interface. They allow companies to see users’ behavior and collect valuable information for advertising efforts.... What [Professor David] Choffnes and his colleagues uncovered was that these pixels were inadvertently collecting data from private application web forms and then sending that data directly to Meta and TikTok."

https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/11/15/uber-privacy-social-security-leak/ 

 Unintentionally my ass. They knew exactly what they were doing and planned to get away with it until someone noticed. According to the paper they stopped doing it....for now. I suspect the pixels are back within 3 months.