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'If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product' This adage is beginning to show its age - virtually all services that can get their hands on
by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
'If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product'
This adage is beginning to show its age - virtually all services that can get their hands on your data end up selling it nowadays, whether you pay them or not. I heard even some restaurant chains sell data on who they served and when.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoIndeed. It's time to simply say: in surveillance capitalism, you are the product.
- eveningcoffee 9y agoWe need laws that will put real chill in the people who try to get away with something like this.
- rexpop 9y agoHow do you mean? Laws that prevent services from targeting ads and content based on their users' identities?
- eveningcoffee 9y agoExactly. And people behind it should be afraid of very real time behind the bars.