Nothing is for free. You are always giving something away in exchange for something else. Especially if it involves the internet.
When we were kids, do you remember those chain mail things you got in your email? “Where were you born, what’s your favourite colour, who’s your crush....Pass this along to 20 of your friends or something terrible will happen to you!” So that was an early version of data mining. The same kind of thing is happening all the time on your Facebook feed. The only difference between then and now is the efficiency with how information is mined. The same tactics are used. You laugh at the people who give their banking information away to a Nigerian prince, and yet you just gave away 4 digits of your phone number and your DoB, or let your calculator access your microphone. It’s all purposed to be used in a manner that is not promoting your interests.
When you participate in Facebook trends and fads (the recent “this was me 10 years ago, and this is me now” fad springs to mind) you are naively giving away pieces of yourself, and those pieces WILL be used against you. If you want any hope of personal financial freedom, the ability to choose what you want to do when you want to do it, and to continue to elect the people you want, stop these activities immediately.
You may think “oh, well, I’m insignificant, there’s nothing about me that’s that important—share anyway.” And that’s where you’re wrong. There’s a spectrum of use for your personal information:
The guy/girl at Tim Hortons or Starbucks who scans everyone’s device connecting to the free wifi provided there. Let me ask you, what are they going to do with your information?
The major corporation (like google for example), who retrieves data from your GPS chip (which can’t be deactivated) and listens to your conversations through your own microphone, and sells that information for marketing purposes. Can you guarantee that that info is going to be used altruistically and in a way that always benefits you?
State sanctioned actors are actively trying to infiltrate your government, and ultimately compromise the democratic freedoms and foundations upon which the west was built.
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