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I am not convinced that trading users privacy for any sort of latest and greatest tech necessarily sets you back. This might be true, but it's not a given. If s

• jariel 7y ago
  "I am not convinced that trading users privacy for any sort of latest and greatest tech necessarily sets you back. This might be true, but it's not a given" True, but why on earth is the government deciding on your behalf what this trade-off is? It's the government's job to make sure the trade-off is apparent, within reason, and then let people decide for themselves. For example, I don't want to be on Facebook ... so my magical solution is that I don't use it.
  • nottorp 7y ago
    Um sorry to disappoint, but you most likely have a shadow profile at Facebook built from all of those like/share/comment with FB boxes on all the other pages you're visiting.
    • jeltz 7y ago
      Depends. If he has been running an adblocker for many years he can have avoided a shadow profile.
      • Nextgrid 7y ago
        Facebook SDKs are embedded in apps (even paid ones) and they report a lot of data including IP address and device info (very useful for fingerprinting). Facebook also collects other user's contacts lists (thanks to dark patterns) which means they can infer his social graph based on his other friends who do use Facebook even if he himself doesn't use it.
  • lagadu 7y ago
    The government's job is whatever we, the electorate, decide it is. The government represents us and we've empowered it to reign in large companies and moderate the influence they can have on us and it's exactly what they're doing.