Re:Facebook: Free as in Bullshit
by criddell on Saturday December 19, 2020 @02:17PM
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In some places, following a person around and building up a dossier on them is considered stalking and is illegal.
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True, but I'm talking about the data collected specifically. Not all of it is gained from tracking users across the internet - lots of it is just building a profile based on what you do on their site, and potentially their partners' sites. That data doesn't seem to me to be owned by the users. But I totally agree that what is an obvious problem is the following of users around the web.