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Can someone explain to me what the problem is with data availability? As other comments have noted, most people don't care. How would you make someone who does

• delecti 9y ago
  Your question brings to mind the (possibly apocryphal) story about (IIRC) Target, who through the use of a customer's purchase history deduced that she was pregnant before she had informed her family. They sent targeted mailers to her house, leaving her father wondering why she was getting advertising for diapers and the like. I think the general public would care more if they got a better sense of what having a large volume of their seemingly innocuous data lets companies figure out about them.
• BookmarkSaver 9y ago
  Well a decent part of the most recent furor is that it affects people the do care. The Cambridge Analytica data was scraped from customers that had enabled it, but extended into their own friend networks, including those that had not chosen to make their data accessible. I am sorta of the opinion that nothing on FB should be considered private, but even with that noted, and the fact that I don't particularly care what personal FB info on me is scraped, I'm a bit annoyed that any random friend could expose data that I have marked as private by allowing some random BS app to access to their own account. According to FB, this was solved years ago (but the data already scraped from the previous state was never successfully recalled), but I hardly trust them to give a shit about this or other issues popping up in the future, barring another mass outrage.