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> Facebook and Google are still alive Well, literally billions of people accept their privacy agreements and actively provide them with data from their phones
by donkeyd 3y ago
> Facebook and Google are still alive
Well, literally billions of people accept their privacy agreements and actively provide them with data from their phones by using their software. That's quite different from an unknown party telling other companies whether you're reliable without your knowledge based on data neither you nor your provider ever agreed to give them.
- Nextgrid 3y agoNobody reads their privacy agreements. They accept them as a formality because these services became effectively mandatory to participate in modern society, but they do freak out when they see the consequences of all this non-consensual data collection: https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2016/09/people-you-may-know-facebook-s-friend-finding-algorithm-putting-you https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2016/09/people-you...