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Originally Posted by Adder
1. Businesses aren't trying to control anyone. Marketers are only seeking data to sell you things.
2. Good luck maintaining your privacy in this age.
(My paraphrases of Adder's points from the previous thread.)
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On 1, the only advantage you have over anyone in any interaction is what he doesn't know about you (or doesn't know about something important that you do know about). To collect data on someone is to develop a dossier, which allows you to understand him better, and to what end would anyone want to do that? To control what he does. To get him to buy something, or vote for something, or scare him into not saying or doing something.
You give a person, or an organization, access to enough info to draw a rough caricature of your personality and you are forever weakened.
Re 2, the only digital places I'm forthcoming with details of what I'm thinking or doing, in any regard, are ones in which you don't know me by name. To put your life on FB, or anything like it, is madness. The upside? Insipid content. The downside? Your info in the hands of the worst humans alive.
