Sorry, that was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that companies like Facebook and Google that get most of their revenue from advertising tend to sell som

Sorry, that was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that companies like Facebook and Google that get most of their revenue from advertising tend to sell some data about their users as part of their advertising platforms. Of course, the data exposed through those interfaces isn't nearly as explicit or personal as the sort of direct access the NSA wants.