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> governments to be more interested in your connections (and their connections) than in your posts Aren't most people's friend lists on Facebook consisting of

> governments to be more interested in your connections (and their connections) than in your posts Aren't most people's friend lists on Facebook consisting of 80% "People I went to school / university / work with"? In which case government already knows? Once we gets to "connections pf connections", you're looking at a set of many thousand people with no real indication of how strong the connection is. E.g. some of my best IRL friends I haven't even added on Facebook, but I have several people as FB friends that I haven't spoken to in a literal decade.

Freak_NL 10y ago
> In which case government already knows? How? A citizen's own government might conceivably know who you work with professionally via the tax agency, but a foreign government doesn't (not without specifically requesting such data on a case-by-case basis). For most people who use Facebook, their list of contacts will provide any big data analysing actor with a very nice outline of their life and interests, especially if you are the type of state actor that can coerce Facebook into cooperating. Even if your own profile is clean and seemingly meaningless, mom will have you tagged as her son/daughter, and who you communicate with and when will quickly filter out the uninteresting friends.