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Comment by a1a

Firstly, it is not possible to opt out of facebook. [1] And they do indeed collect private data that we didn't choose to share (shadow accounts, third party website trackers, etc).

Facebook have broken "actual laws". There are so many cases were facebook have broken the law. [2] [3]

Also, please read up on Fallacy of relative privation ("not as bad as").

[1] https://boingboing.net/2017/11/08/involuntary-profiling.html

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/12/facebook-...

[3] https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/19/facebooks-tracking-of-non-...

parent a1a 8 years ago

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