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I'll just leave this here: [1] "It turns out that Facebook also buys data about your offline purchases. The next time you pay for a burrito with your credit ca

I'll just leave this here: [1] "It turns out that Facebook also buys data about your offline purchases. The next time you pay for a burrito with your credit card, Facebook will learn about this transaction and match this credit card number with the one you added in Messenger. In other words, Messenger is a great Trojan horse designed to learn everything about you." [1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/facebook-knows-literally-everything-about-you/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/facebook-knows-literally-e... From 2018! [2] "Google now knows when its users go to the store and buy stuff. Google has begun using billions of credit-card transaction records to prove that its online ads are prompting people to make purchases – even when they happen offline in brick-and-mortar stores [...] Privacy advocates said few people understand that their purchases are being analyzed in this way" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/05/23/google-now-knows-when-you-are-at-a-cash-register-and-how-much-you-are-spending/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/05/23... From 2017! Consumer data is the gold the consumer appears to be giving away, unwittingly or carelessly, regardless of the regime or geographic location.

StanislavPetrov 6y ago
>"It turns out that Facebook also buys data about your offline purchases. The next time you pay for a burrito with your credit card, Facebook will learn about this transaction and match this credit card number with the one you added in Messenger. Something else to keep in mind next time you hear the push for a "cashless" economy.
- thrixton 6y ago
  I don't think a cash economy will help. Pretty soon, maybe sooner if a cashless economy doesn't take hold, they'll use facial recognition to track who purchases what to bypass any cash transactions. The solution has to be a strangthening (new) right not to be tracked which should be on by default. This may then be traded away by free services (gmail, facebook, etc..) but it would be a step in the right direction.
- NotPavlovsDog 6y ago
  There's also whole-sale auctions for banking transaction data, insurance, stock holdings and, generally, anything with digital money, which is most money today, CC-related or not. And many consumers that operate with cash use merchant bonus cards or coupons that link back to their PID.

StanislavPetrov 6y ago

>"It turns out that Facebook also buys data about your offline purchases. The next time you pay for a burrito with your credit card, Facebook will learn about this transaction and match this credit card number with the one you added in Messenger. Something else to keep in mind next time you hear the push for a "cashless" economy.

thrixton 6y ago
I don't think a cash economy will help. Pretty soon, maybe sooner if a cashless economy doesn't take hold, they'll use facial recognition to track who purchases what to bypass any cash transactions. The solution has to be a strangthening (new) right not to be tracked which should be on by default. This may then be traded away by free services (gmail, facebook, etc..) but it would be a step in the right direction.
NotPavlovsDog 6y ago
There's also whole-sale auctions for banking transaction data, insurance, stock holdings and, generally, anything with digital money, which is most money today, CC-related or not. And many consumers that operate with cash use merchant bonus cards or coupons that link back to their PID.