Lots of people here saying Facebook probably isn't spying on your conversations are missing the point. I suspect many people finding excuses to exonerate a serv

Lots of people here saying Facebook probably isn't spying on your conversations are missing the point. I suspect many people finding excuses to exonerate a service they're addicted to. The fact of the matter is that you should be scared of Facebook, because Facebook is fucking scary. Facebook is a horrifying company. It's the largest and most personal and invasive tracking engine on the net, more so even than Google. They know everything about you. Facebook is tracking and making available to advertisers everything from your employer to your political affiliations to your ethnicity to your charitable donations to your credit [1]. Facebook is (illegally) now combining your WhatsApp information with your Facebook profile [2]. Facebook once collected the unsubmitted status updates you typed and decided against submitting [3]. They track when you are asleep [4]. You already know that Facebook has trained a neural network to identify your face. Facebook engages in censorship on a regular and systematic basis, against journalists and political activists, and regular users too. Even when they aren't censoring explicitly they're building a filter bubble around you that is polarizing our population to extremes. What happens when they get hacked, badly? Even big companies get hacked and have their databases dumped. Are you really comfortable with everything they know about you being made public? What happens if government actors get access to this data? What makes you think they don't already have it? I saw a stiff give a talk at HOPE who mentioned that they have an FBI agent staffed full-time at Facebook HQ. You should be scared of Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674 https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674 [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/08/19/98-personal-data-points-that-facebook-uses-to-target-ads-to-you/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/08... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/25/whatsapp-backlash-facebook-data-privacy-users https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/25/whatsapp-... [3] http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/12/facebook-collects-conducts-research-on-status-updates-you-never-post/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/12/facebook-collects-co... [4] http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/12/facebook-collects-conducts-research-on-status-updates-you-never-post/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/12/facebook-collects-co...