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Would this be a fair assessment: ? Facebook, Microsoft and Google collect all your private information and share it with themselves, the government and some wi
by singularity2001 9y ago
Would this be a fair assessment: ?
Facebook, Microsoft and Google collect all your private information and share it with themselves, the government and some with the advertisement industry.
Apple collects some of your private information and is forced to share it with themselves, Nuance and the government (subvertly see snowden and interpolate).
Amazon is in a special position.
- criddell 9y ago> some with the advertisement industry I'm always interested when people say this. Say I want to buy some person's data. Is there a way I can do that with Facebook, Microsoft, or Google?
- MBCook 9y agoNo, because it’s far too valuable to them. If they sold it it wouldn’t be valuable for long. They do it ‘the other way’. You say “I want to buy some eyeballs like X” and they sell you access to the eyeballs. But they don’t give you the person’s information.
- criddell 9y agoThat's what I thought. So my private information isn't really shared with anybody, is it? I mean I guess if I were to place an ad targeted to black men that speak french and you answered it, I would learn that about you.
- MBCook 9y agoIt’s shared with anyone inside facebook who want to use it for something. I’ve never gotten the impression there are strong internal privacy controls. External companies? Perhaps if they partner with Facebook but not normal ad buyers.