"How does Facebook’s bigness hurt you and me? ...Facebook takes a toll on your privacy – but perhaps not in the way you expect. It isn’t just the Facebook app that’s gobbling up your information. Facebook is so big, it has convinced millions of other businesses, apps and websites to also snoop on its behalf. Even when you’re not actively using Facebook. Even when you’re not online."
#GeoffreyAFowler, 2021
You pay for Facebook with your privacy. And it keeps raising the price. So what can you do to stop Facebook from following you? The whole problem with monopolies is that they leave consumers with few good choices, says tech...
"After quizzing these companies about data practices, I learned that most are sharing what’s happening in my home with Amazon, too. Our data is the price of entry for devices that want to integrate with Alexa. Amazon’s not only eavesdropping — it’s tracking everything happening in your home."
#GeoffreyAFowler, 'Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time'
"It turns out, having the world’s biggest advertising company make the most-popular web browser was about as smart as letting kids run a candy shop."
#GeoffreyAFowler, 'Goodbye, Chrome: Google’s Web browser has become spy software'
Maybe governments need to pass laws against browser companies starting advertising businesses, and advertising companies owning or funding web browser development?
"Borovicka tried to use that same California privacy law, known as CCPA, to view the data about her 11-year-old son, who has never had an account on Facebook or on Instagram.
Facebook replied it wouldn’t comply with the access request because her son doesn’t have an account it could use to verify his identity. But if he had an account, he’d be giving Facebook the right to collect his data."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/29/facebook-privacy-monopoly/
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