Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Belgian court

Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Be... by ryanwaggoner on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:55PM (#16395497)

I think you’re headed for a reality check. There’s this underlying narrative in a lot of the digital privacy stuff that consumers just don’t know what’s happening. If they knew, they’d revolt.

I just don’t see it. I think people kinda know, but they just don’t care that much.

Hell, I bet half the users on HN have a pretty good understanding of what data is collected, but don’t care enough to check out. We still buy smartphones and use all these sites and put Alexa in our houses. It’s not that we don’t know, we just don’t care.

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Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Be... by ams6110 on Friday February 16, 2018 @03:02PM (#16395563)

I would agree. If you don't use ad/track blockers, you already see that ads follow you around, and are targeted based on recent browsing and shopping.

So you intuitively know, at some level, that all these sites are tracking you. I agree that the average person doesn't care too much, based on the lack of serious outrcy about it.

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