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Oh, yeah I can explain that, no problem! I'm one of those people myself. I've never heard of a single example of potential harm that could come as the result

Oh, yeah I can explain that, no problem! I'm one of those people myself. I've never heard of a single example of potential harm that could come as the result of tracking. So as you can imagine, to me these articles seem like a bunch of made-up hoopla over nothing. To explain my mindset, basically it boils down to: "Can something bad happen to me as a result of tracking?" And nobody has ever said "Yes, here are examples."

cm2012 8y ago
You'll get ads better suited to you. The horror!
- GrinningFool 8y ago
  > You'll get ads better suited to you. The horror! Plus all kinds of bonus disinformation based on the profile your data has provided!
  - cm2012 8y ago
    The vast majority of disinformation is from organic posts, not ads, and don't benefit from tracking.
    - frabcus 8y ago
      "Organic" posts can have their ranking boost by money... Essentially, there are no organic posts. It is all advertising.
balls187 8y ago
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. As to the real life consequences of a laissez-faire approach to privacy: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4 https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-p... (Edited to combine my two comments)
- cm2012 8y ago
  Which I why I firmly believe in Nessie and Big Foot.
- wutbrodo 8y ago
  Nobody claimed it was. But GP's point is that he doesn't understand the hysterical responses to an absence of evidence, and doesn't see why he should change his behavior in the absence of evidence. Don't get me wrong: I think Facebook is a fundamentally culturally rotten company, and probably disagree with him more than I agree with him. But non sequitur buzzwords like your comment are neither here nor there.
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kradeelav 8y ago
Somebody's already linked China's credit score shenanigans which is a good example; I'll also chime in by saying there's been actual books written how IBM (and big data of that time) was a direct factor in making the Holocaust happen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust). Once when "undesirables" (like myself) can be sorted by any widespread metric ... it's too easy to be used as a weapon for more nefarious means.
- cm2012 8y ago
  This has nothing to do with FB. The government has that data from ISPs already.
  - reitanqild 8y ago
    Clearly it will be eaaier to figure out who are undesired individuals if one has access to everyones Facebook feed.

cm2012 8y ago

You'll get ads better suited to you. The horror!

GrinningFool 8y ago
> You'll get ads better suited to you. The horror! Plus all kinds of bonus disinformation based on the profile your data has provided!
- cm2012 8y ago
  The vast majority of disinformation is from organic posts, not ads, and don't benefit from tracking.
  - frabcus 8y ago
    "Organic" posts can have their ranking boost by money... Essentially, there are no organic posts. It is all advertising.

balls187 8y ago

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. As to the real life consequences of a laissez-faire approach to privacy: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4 https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-p... (Edited to combine my two comments)

cm2012 8y ago
Which I why I firmly believe in Nessie and Big Foot.
wutbrodo 8y ago
Nobody claimed it was. But GP's point is that he doesn't understand the hysterical responses to an absence of evidence, and doesn't see why he should change his behavior in the absence of evidence. Don't get me wrong: I think Facebook is a fundamentally culturally rotten company, and probably disagree with him more than I agree with him. But non sequitur buzzwords like your comment are neither here nor there.

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kradeelav 8y ago

Somebody's already linked China's credit score shenanigans which is a good example; I'll also chime in by saying there's been actual books written how IBM (and big data of that time) was a direct factor in making the Holocaust happen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust). Once when "undesirables" (like myself) can be sorted by any widespread metric ... it's too easy to be used as a weapon for more nefarious means.

cm2012 8y ago
This has nothing to do with FB. The government has that data from ISPs already.
- reitanqild 8y ago
  Clearly it will be eaaier to figure out who are undesired individuals if one has access to everyones Facebook feed.