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Wow everyone on here defending tech giants owning their personal data. Is this Facebook trolls working their propaganda? What exactly do we stand to lose if Fa

Wow everyone on here defending tech giants owning their personal data. Is this Facebook trolls working their propaganda? What exactly do we stand to lose if Facebook can't aggregate data on a level akin to a hyper advanced dystopiam government? Are we worried out advertisements will become less funny? Are we worries well be less manipulable on a mass scale? Are we worried well have options on our tech overlords instead of being stuck with 4? Its my data and I should own it. Just like I can't login to Facebooks servers and take their data. The only thing that separates Facebook from having privacy and the user is Facebook has billions of dollars of leverage. But hey if yall like billionaires owning you then let's keep it up - let's not say we own what's ours. Make the billionaires even stronger.

syrrim 8y ago
>Its my data and I should own it. Then don't give it to them. >Is this Facebook trolls I personally don't use facebook, and don't advocate for others to use facebook. If you do use facebook, then you are accepting the deal they have offered you. >What exactly do we stand to lose if Facebook can't aggregate data on a level akin to a hyper advanced dystopiam government? This is how facebook makes money, and stronger how they survive as a platform. If they couldn't do this, then more then likely we would lose facebook. I personally don't see this as such a huge loss, but apparently you do.
- PeterisP 8y ago
  One of the major complaints about Facebook is their tracking of non-users, of people who haven't accepted any 'deal' nor given them any data - e.g. Facebook is known to do matching of non-users full name with phone numbers and other contact information based on what other people have in their phone contacts, combined with tracking their visits on third-party websites which embed e.g. facebook like buttons. There are ongoing court cases proving such practices, and Facebook insisting in court that it should be allowed to continue to violate privacy even for people who, like you, have intentionally chosen to avoid Facebook.
- thatoneuser 8y ago
  As has been explained so many times including my message, you can't opt out. Data collection is beyond that. They take it without you doing anything. It doesn't go away because you ignore it.

syrrim 8y ago

>Its my data and I should own it. Then don't give it to them. >Is this Facebook trolls I personally don't use facebook, and don't advocate for others to use facebook. If you do use facebook, then you are accepting the deal they have offered you. >What exactly do we stand to lose if Facebook can't aggregate data on a level akin to a hyper advanced dystopiam government? This is how facebook makes money, and stronger how they survive as a platform. If they couldn't do this, then more then likely we would lose facebook. I personally don't see this as such a huge loss, but apparently you do.

PeterisP 8y ago
One of the major complaints about Facebook is their tracking of non-users, of people who haven't accepted any 'deal' nor given them any data - e.g. Facebook is known to do matching of non-users full name with phone numbers and other contact information based on what other people have in their phone contacts, combined with tracking their visits on third-party websites which embed e.g. facebook like buttons. There are ongoing court cases proving such practices, and Facebook insisting in court that it should be allowed to continue to violate privacy even for people who, like you, have intentionally chosen to avoid Facebook.
thatoneuser 8y ago
As has been explained so many times including my message, you can't opt out. Data collection is beyond that. They take it without you doing anything. It doesn't go away because you ignore it.