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In the EU you can instruct a company to divulge everything it knows about you. Facebook will give it to you on a DVD (or at least they used to). As an instrume
by krona 10y ago
In the EU you can instruct a company to divulge everything it knows about you. Facebook will give it to you on a DVD (or at least they used to).
As an instrument of control and coercion, however, there is a massive difference between a government collecting data and not telling you, and a government collecting the data and telling you they use it to calculate your worth to society. The latter seems utterly tyrannical.
- kartan 10y agoI prefer to know. If intelligence agencies are collecting data of citizens without their knowledge, how can they protest it? What was noteworthy about Edward Snowden leak was the confirmation of the data collection. He made public something that everybody knew.
- wu-ikkyu 10y agoHow can you know what the "massive" difference is between the two cases since in the former case you are left in the dark as to what the information is being used for? Both cases utilize the tools of tyranny, and Facebook has shown they are more than willing to comply with whatever the host nations government wishes, lest they lose profits for their shareholders.