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Re:Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed by JKCalhoun on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @01:27PM (#19321245)
You've hit on the most nefarious part of all of it. People say they have nothing to hide, I don't doubt it. What they should be concerned about though is the constant, targeted stream of disinformation.

It's one thing when it's a detergent that is claiming to make your clothes whiter, it's another altogether when it's messages suggesting you might also want a whiter neighborhood.

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Re:Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed by jachee on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @03:49PM (#19322608)
Perhaps even that they believe that they have nothing to hide is, itself, a result of a disinformation campaign.
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Re:Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed by specialist on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @10:43PM (#19325369)
The asymmetry (power imbalance) bothers me.

People are profiting from my data. All that activity is unknowable to me.

How is that fair?

If I don't get any privacy, then no one else gets any privacy either.

Alternately, establish that everything knowable about me is mine and gimme my cut.

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