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I care what Cory Doctrow has to say about William Gibson in the same way that I care about what Britney Spears thinks of Ella Fitzgerald.

And, again, it doesn't matter if you use it or not because they are building and selling profiles for everyone, not just their own userbase. Look into facebook shadow profiles.

This is a terrible idea. If it were up to me I'd ban phones in cars entirely until self driving cars are a thing.

"On computer systems" has a hollower ring now than it did a decade ago. Everything is on a computer system now. Even face to face interactions leave a plethora of metadata behind.

The nature of privacy has always been a function of social norms and technology, but given the directions we're headed in these days I think it's easy to make a case that the average citizen has given up a lot more privacy, then they have gained in convenience.

My life was easier when it took me an hour to download a megabyte and I spent more time outside... and I say that as a web developer.

Facebook has built a platform that's much more accurate and comprehensive than anything experian has, because experian isn't in the business of selling your political beliefs and sexual orientation and a hundred other demographics to marketers.

You can file a FOIA request with Facebook to see what they have on you. Other people have, and have gotten their dossiers. Have you had a phone number or mailing address in the past 10 years? If so, they've gotcha covered.

It doesn't matter, they are still building a profile on you and selling it. These are called "shadow profiles".