The basic endpoint of Facebook and Google whatever their stated objectives is to build detailed long term profiles of every individual, like the stasi or any totalitarian state.
This appetite for user data is so great simply tracking location and content across devices is not enough. Here is Facebook trying to do deals with hospitals to access all their patient data [1]
It's easy to see where this goes and how encompassing it becomes. People in the ad ecosystem will hand wave, diminish and deny but that's just self interest. For wider society the effect is sinister.
This appetite for user data is so great simply tracking location and content across devices is not enough. Here is Facebook trying to do deals with hospitals to access all their patient data [1]
It's easy to see where this goes and how encompassing it becomes. People in the ad ecosystem will hand wave, diminish and deny but that's just self interest. For wider society the effect is sinister.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/05/facebook-building-8-explored...