Facebook Is Spying On You. How To Limit Data Stalking.
At any given moment Facebook knows your location, who you are with, what you just purchased and what you are likely to buy next.
Factor in all of the personal data streaming from your devices into the hands of advertisers now amounts to a giant stalking campaign. In fact, big online data brokers are the worst stalkers in the bunch.
Your personal information moment to moment is being bundled, sold, bartered and swapped by online companies like Facebook. It’s how using Facebook is free. You get access to free social network, and they take from you incredibly detailed personal data which fetches a big price the more they learn about you.
Facebook and big data brokers know more about you than your closest friends and family members. They know who you are likely to spend time with, where you will eat next, where you like to travel, what you like, don’t like, and who influences you the most to do something.
Ask Facebook about these creepy personal data stalking techniques and they will spin it into a story about the value of personalizing choices and ads. Maybe that’s true, but creepy still.
How much should they know about you and me? What happens if that data is stolen and used against you? Why does it feel like there is hardly any transparency to all of this personal data farming of millions of lives?
We are not entirely helpless in how our personal data is gathered and sold to advertisers. There are some easy to follow steps that can help limit your exposure to data stalking.
Check out my 4 tips on what you can do to limit Data Stalking here
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