Unfortunately, while I wholeheartedly endorse kicking Facebook to the curb, they still aggregate and analyze your data. Facebook accounts created by people and orgs that have a connection to you, however tangential, add up to a you-shaped hole in enough dimensions to make David Hilbert’s head spin, creating a shadow more detailed than you thought a shadow could be. And that’s before we talk about giant companies you’ve never heard of such as infoGROUP (formerly infoUSA, which early on, and probably still, hired former members of the US intelligence community), that have been vacuuming up your online presence and other private information for resale since at least the Clinton administration. I’m afraid that they are WAY ahead of you (and me).
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