What is Facebook data broker ? How to change the password ?

SamWer68

Hello,

My dark web monitoring tells me that I need to set a strong password and authentication for Facebook Data Broker. But I don't know Facebook Data Broker. Is it just Facebook?

Thank you very much.

Sam

Alexandru_BD

Hello,

The term “Facebook Data Broker” is often used informally to describe how Facebook (now under the parent company Meta) gathers, analyzes, and uses vast amounts of personal data—both from its own platform and from external sources—in order to provide targeted advertising services. Technically, Facebook itself is not a traditional data broker. Instead, based on the information I could find online, Facebook partners (or has partnered) with data brokers to combine the information it collects on its platform with data that brokers gather elsewhere.

The term isn’t a formal title for a single product or entity; it’s an informal term describing Facebook’s wide-ranging data-collection activities and its partnerships with external data brokers.
I guess you can update and strenghten your password there, and see if this DIP recommendation dissapears afterwards.

Regards,

Alex

SamWer68

Thank you so much,

Sam