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I've bought ads on Google and Facebook, and they never shared anyone's personal details with me. I just told them the keywords and demographics I was interested

by Meekro 9y ago

I've bought ads on Google and Facebook, and they never shared anyone's personal details with me. I just told them the keywords and demographics I was interested in, and I uploaded my ad, and they showed it to people. There was never a button labeled "Download spreadsheet of your ad targets' personal data" or anything like that. If there was such a button, I would agree with you that it's going too far.

marricks 9y ago
Okay, but google and Facebook have that sort of information on your audience and guess what, they can wittingly or unwittingly share it with others, which is a huge problem. And it’d be pure naïveté to think the government wouldn’t take advantage of such systems to monitor and target activists and dissidents. The mere existence of such finely targeted ads is a threat.