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WhiskeyGrinder

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8. Right, that's what I'm saying.

Reply to mythology (Reply #7)

Fri Mar 30, 2018, 07:50 PM

Mar 2018

The problem is many people tend to think this is a problem that can be solved by not using Facebook, or by using a fake name when signing up for Twitter, or whatever. If you're on a website, use company email, use cash only sometimes, use a mobile app, visit a website, any of it -- that generates data, and many, many organizations find that data very, very valuable.

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Cambridge Analytica has most likely stolen information about every single person on Facebook. [View all] onecaliberal Mar 2018 OP

We Need Richard Hendrix of "Silicon Valley" to Hurry up with the De-centralized Internet Stallion Mar 2018 #1

Does it help that we put nothing in our profile, Ilsa Mar 2018 #2

Im not sure. Maybe. Maybe the basic info you used to sign up and verify its you. onecaliberal Mar 2018 #4

Some but not really mythology Mar 2018 #6

Again, it's not the "personal information" that's valuable. It's the information about how you act WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2018 #3

Very good points. I just think its creepy. onecaliberal Mar 2018 #5

Yeah, that horse ran off and died a long, long time ago. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2018 #9

The scale of the information is much bigger now mythology Mar 2018 #7

Right, that's what I'm saying. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2018 #8

Well, if Facebook (not that I use it for much) or Google think Volaris Mar 2018 #10

Oh, it's not always about elections. Most websites you visit are tracking what you do to build a WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2018 #11

My response to that is the following: Volaris Mar 2018 #12

But it's not necessarily about the ads, or clicking on the ads. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2018 #13

Does Does that make me entitled to a cut of what they get for selling it later? Volaris Mar 2018 #14

Now you're getting it. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2018 #15

Unlikely, since Facebook has 2.2 billion users, 6.75 times the population of the United States FarCenter Mar 2018 #16