I'm not 'falling' for anything. I'm aware of how my data is being used by Facebook, and am generally unconcerned by it, as are most people. Conversely, it wou

I'm not 'falling' for anything. I'm aware of how my data is being used by Facebook, and am generally unconcerned by it, as are most people. Conversely, it would seem you're falling for the completely false claim made in the NY Times that somehow, placing ads on FB is somehow tantamount to 'buying customer data'. The article is making a bizarrely stupid claim. "I am shocked that anyone continues to believe this claim. Each time you click on a Facebook ad, Facebook sells data on you to that advertiser. This is such a basic property of online targeted advertising that it would be impossible to avoid, even if Facebook somehow wanted to." It's basically lying to suggest that someone placing ads on a network is remotely similar to, for example, Facebook literally selling user data directly to advertisers or anyone else. You, I, everyone, we see the ads on Facebook, the means by which those ads are purchased is available for anyone to see and it's really not that big a deal. It's mostly demographics, location, and some degree of interest that usually isn't correct in the first place. "A private foreign company isn't more powerful than the EU" The EU and FB are bound by law, and it seems clear the EU is breaking it by making broad search and seizure during some kind of investigative discovery, and the EU courts will have to rule on it.