I know it’s for advertising but there’s a paranoid little corner of my mind that imagines insurance companies paying for some of these, uh, “user insights.”
That’s not just you being paranoid, this data is 100% meant to be sold to data aggregates and one of the reasons why people made a very brief stink about Cambridge Analytica years ago.
This is why data privacy is so important, this shit gets out to bad actors, even if it is “properly” used only for advertising.
No it isnt, Cambridge Analytica was a data leak through a Facebook exploit, advertising companies don’t sell data because it’s more profitable for them to be the only ones with it.
I don’t think so it was not really a leak through an exploit. Data was collected by one party through Facebook was bought by CA and then used mainly for targeted political advertisement.
It wasn’t an exploit, but it was data scraping via the API. That’s why the API is so locked down now - for example, you can’t create a third-party FB app any more.
How do you think they monetize your data in the first place?
It’s all ads. No data is sold. It’s not the data that’s monetized; it’s your attention.
I don’t think so it was not really a leak through an exploit. Data was collected by one party through Facebook was bought by CA and then used mainly for targeted political advertisement.
Yeah, so an exploit
How do you think they monetize your data in the first place?
Advertising. Did you not read my comment? Have you never looked at their earnings?
No, they’ll start raising rates for people with weight loss apps on their phone, or refusing coverage for people who made too many phone calls to an oncologist, or got a lot of texts from their pharmacy saying “X prescription is ready.” Companies collecting medical data is very, very scary for a lot of people.
Even worse in the third world without many of the data protection that first world citizens enjoy. Nobody gives a shit who gets their own data - Data Privacy advocates get hassled by the very people they are advocating for.
I know it’s for advertising but there’s a paranoid little corner of my mind that imagines insurance companies paying for some of these, uh, “user insights.”
That’s not just you being paranoid, this data is 100% meant to be sold to data aggregates and one of the reasons why people made a very brief stink about Cambridge Analytica years ago.
This is why data privacy is so important, this shit gets out to bad actors, even if it is “properly” used only for advertising.
No it isnt, Cambridge Analytica was a data leak through a Facebook exploit, advertising companies don’t sell data because it’s more profitable for them to be the only ones with it.
I don’t think so it was not really a leak through an exploit. Data was collected by one party through Facebook was bought by CA and then used mainly for targeted political advertisement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook–Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal
Like hell they don’t. How do you think they monetize your data in the first place?
It wasn’t an exploit, but it was data scraping via the API. That’s why the API is so locked down now - for example, you can’t create a third-party FB app any more.
It’s all ads. No data is sold. It’s not the data that’s monetized; it’s your attention.
Yeah maybe.
Yeah, so an exploit
Advertising. Did you not read my comment? Have you never looked at their earnings?
Ho no it’s not just for advertising anymore. Insurance companies and more have started buying your info from data brokers.
Hopefully that means they’ll start giving me better rates!
Hahahahahahaaaaa, good one!
No, they’ll start raising rates for people with weight loss apps on their phone, or refusing coverage for people who made too many phone calls to an oncologist, or got a lot of texts from their pharmacy saying “X prescription is ready.” Companies collecting medical data is very, very scary for a lot of people.
Even worse in the third world without many of the data protection that first world citizens enjoy. Nobody gives a shit who gets their own data - Data Privacy advocates get hassled by the very people they are advocating for.