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They’re not tracking what you think they’re tracking. It’s worse. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rushkoff-leaving-facebook-20180325-story.html
@rotatingskull "To ask why one should care is a luxury of privilege. Data harvesting arguably matters most when it's used against the economically disadvantaged. It's not just in China that social media data are used to evaluate credit worthiness and immigration status. By normalizing the harvesting of data, those of us with little to fear imperil the most vulnerable."
Exactly this.
Also, you could be next. You don't decide if something can be used against you. People who want to harm you do.
