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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by DarkKomunalec on Thursday May 25, 2017 @03:44AM (#14415915)
'If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product'

This adage is beginning to show its age - virtually all services that can get their hands on your data end up selling it nowadays, whether you pay them or not. I heard even some restaurant chains sell data on who they served and when.

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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by TeMPOraL on Thursday May 25, 2017 @05:56AM (#14416290)
Indeed. It's time to simply say: in surveillance capitalism, you are the product.
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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by rexpop on Thursday May 25, 2017 @11:22AM (#14417867)
Mm, no. The user is not the product. The user is labor. Our labor is to collect information about Facebook's customers' customers.
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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by 659087 on Thursday May 25, 2017 @08:59AM (#14416993)
The product in a factory farm kind of way.
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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by eveningcoffee on Thursday May 25, 2017 @07:10AM (#14416550)
We need laws that will put real chill in the people who try to get away with something like this.
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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by rexpop on Thursday May 25, 2017 @11:23AM (#14417869)
How do you mean? Laws that prevent services from targeting ads and content based on their users' identities?
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Re:What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012) by eveningcoffee on Thursday May 25, 2017 @06:03PM (#14420503)
Exactly. And people behind it should be afraid of very real time behind the bars.
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