Facebook executives repeat this line that they don’t sell or share your data. Except, they share your data, because that’s what got them into this mess. Why don’t they ever explain what they actually DO do with the data?
This is my main quibble with people who are shocked at what Facebook (and Reddit) do with their data.
These companies can't do anything with your data if you don't give them any. Yet, people are willingly giving them such detailed personal information. Even as detailed as telling them their exact location at a particular time.
They're then shocked when the company does something with it.
You can't give someone a gift and then dictate what they do with it.
What's even worse is that these same people are then giving these companies OTHER people's information by, for instance, posting photos of others who aren't on the platform.
Facebook collected this data for years but only recently started disclosing it. There's no reason to trust that they're disclosing all the data they're collecting.
What's really striking is how user-hostile this conversation is. Forget about whether the user wants to share their data or not - it's all about what Facebook wants to do. In this case, that's snuffing competition by denying access, in the case of Cambridge Analytica, it's sharing data for purposes of shady data "research".
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