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Originally Posted by why?
You are totally and completely missing my point. Everyone you have ever given your private info for, whether it be getting a credit card, a home loan, buying your car, getting a job, etc. Literally anything you need to fill out any type of application for has info on you that they will sell.
Do you have a cell phone? If you do you are already giving up your photo albums, personal/private networks, and geolocation data because a cell phone is a tracker you pay for, and they can listen in and see in with the microphone and camera. And why do you think what you talk about on your calls is private? You can buy a reciever that can listen in on most cell phone calls for dirt cheap.
There are multiple companies that do exactly what you say facebook does. They just buy their data from others. Your ip address is tracked every site you go. Your physical location is tracked by your phone, your car, and every time you use any other payment method besides cash. It is also tracked by everyone else's phone and every security camera everywhere. Many places now have microphones to record everything.
The fact you think anyone is defending anything is absurd. The reality of the situation is far worse than you are giving it credit for. You cannot withdraw completely from society, it is not possible unless you go live on a mountain and kill your own food and make your own clothes and literally never interact with society. Otherwise anything you can possibly think of doing will create data that will be sold. And every company out there sells everything they can, because it is extra money.
Facebook is literally just the tip of the iceberg. Without legislation making it illegal to sell people's personal info, privacy is dead.
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I understood your point. It still doesn't justify using, espousing, or defending giving my data to companies like FB & Google. The point that you're missing isn't so much that private data is out there. It's about which companies use that data to create a product out of you. About what companies use you as a primary monetization source. I gave my private data to the big three credit agencies years ago. They don't use that info to make a psychological profile of me, my friends, family and business constituents to sell me stuff and ideas. Big difference between the cable company, the lumber yard, Ft86club, and companies like Facebook/Google.