Sharing has its drawbacks. Like a literary critic reading a book and coming to a different conclusion than the author intended, we share events and locations and feelings on facebook, and it gets misinterpreted by data harvesters. Search for a car and suddenly the car you’re searching for shows up on facebook […]
FACEBOOK DATA SALE: KNOW WHEN YOU’RE ON THE AUCTION BLOCK
March 31, 2018 by David Gillaspie
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FACEBOOK DATA BROKERS GET DIRTY WITH OUR MUD
March 19, 2018 by David Gillaspie

The numbers are too big to fathom. $42 billion loss in market value? 50 million users had their data harvested? All we want to do is post a nice cat picture, not get sucked into some weird vortex of data mining. Don’t get me wrong, I like mining, but for the right […]
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