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>He found his own file and was astounded by the information they had on him. His friends, his work, his habits. Photos of himself going about his business. His
by Jerry2 10y ago
>He found his own file and was astounded by the information they had on him. His friends, his work, his habits. Photos of himself going about his business. His social circles. His friends were equally shocked by the collection of the most trivial details.
Facebook has all of that and way more. They even know which sites you visit when you're not on Facebook (think Like buttons and logins and various JS libraries that your browser might request as you browse around the web).
- kuschku 10y agoI’ve been collecting all chats’ contents I’m in, all webpages I browse, where I am, and when, etc in a database. Basically, I started with building bad, hacky clones of Google’s services for myself. But the resulting set of data is so huge and powerful. Not only can I find out just from my data where my friends were, and when, also with whom they talked, and when, with whom they’re interacting, etc. And that’s just for my own data, if I had that set of data about every human... I don’t even want to imagine what’d be possible.