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Originally Posted by why?
I'm not defending anything. Every company on the planet uses your private data as a product now. They all sell every scrap they get their hands on. The credit agencies absolutely sell your data.
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No one is disputing that. You aren't seeing the difference between how FB/Google collect and use your private data and the way other companies do. Facebook's graph products are psychographic profiles of each user that include demographics as well as psychological profiles based off your minute by minute expression of ideas, geographic locations, system actions (and inactions), personal relationships, and photographs. This firehose of data is updated in near real time That data stream is
considerably more invasive than a raw demographic data from a credit report or something like your grocery store loyalty card. Please try and understand the differences in the way Facebook's data is
gathered and used, rather than other businesses that collect raw data and re-sell it. That is the crux of the problem and not just that business gather and resell.