Great point in this article: Are we asking the right questions?

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Great point in this article: Are we asking the right questions? Should be be investigating Facebook alone or should we be examining the way user-data is gathered and shared from one source to another? Let's remember, Facebook isn't alone here: Google, Twitter and countless other websites and services have your data and 'rent' it out to various agencies. Every time you post with a location or even if your photo has GPS data in the EXIF; every connection you make, like you click on or even what other apps you're using.

_One problem that does exist with Facebook is the whole concept around 3rd party data sharing, where people, who are not you, have the ability to decide who your data should be given to.

This concept is completely and utterly insane.

Why have we created a system where other people have the right to give away your data? Who the heck came up with that idea?_
https://baekdal.com/thoughts/we-are-missing-the-point-about-facebook-cambridge-analytica-etc/

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Bill Brayman said…
it should include the whole marketing apparatus since hundreds of companies are all in the business of profiting from shared data gathered from internet users? It's particularly bad because users aren't given much informed consent. Not to mention the feedback control loop of gather, influence, adjust, and gather again. I mean this whole situation has become alice in wonderland. And yes FB and some of the other places are particularly awful about this. But note that not all places sell the data itself.
April 10, 2018 at 8:52 PM
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