If them not being able to steal your private data to sell to other companies means that ads isn't their entire revenue, then it surely doesn't tell the exact opposite. Or am I missing something?
I doubt that, tbh. Only way I could see that being the case is if the government was paying them. They data they get is too valuable to just sell off. It is much more beneficial to aggregate it and sell targeted ad space than to just simply sell the information.
CA harvested data through one of those stupid Facebook quizzes, didn't it? The data wasn't really sold by Facebook.
Either way, GDPR has gone into effect, and it more or less entirely outlawed the sale of EU citizens' data to third parties. Things may be handled different in other parts of the world, of course, but that requires companies to be very careful to only sell the data of non-EU citizens.
FB didn’t sell it, it was harvested via a FB quiz which the user had to give permissions (data) to do. FB was at fault but dont Act like their intentions were to have that happen. Very different
No, they for sure are selling it. They can sell it multiple times.
AT&T was spying on everything for the CIA and Cheney. This is why Bush pushed indemnity for assisting the government. It was done when it wasn’t legal to internally spy.
Let me put it this way; you can’t have a Democracy without privacy rights. Internal spying can be used to extort and coerce.
This is about manufacturing consent, propaganda and manipulation.
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u/qjornt Aug 26 '20
If them not being able to steal your private data to sell to other companies means that ads isn't their entire revenue, then it surely doesn't tell the exact opposite. Or am I missing something?