Facebook & Google “own you” — what to do? Facebook “knows” what you like and what internet sites you visit. Google “knows” where you go on the internet.
Facebook and Google use that information for their own purposes. What can you do?
In the meantime, check your “privacy” settings …. What do you do to “cover your tracks” when out on the Internet?
Remember that old saying, “there’s no free lunch ..”  It’s time for consumers to tell Facebook and Google that people own what they produce and ‘there’s no free lunch” anymore for Facebook and Google.
Everything you post on social media can and may be used against you.
In their undercover investigation, James O’Keefe and other Project Veritas reporters secretly recorded Twitter employees as they allegedly revealed the extent the platform surveils users.
“Everything you send is stored on my server. You can’t [delete it], it’s already on my server now,†declared Direct Messaging Engineer Panay Singh. “So all your sex messages and your, like, dick pics are on my server now. All your illegitimate wives, and, like, all the girls you’ve been fucking around with, they are on my server now.â€
“I’m going to send it to your wife, she’s gonna use it in your divorce,†he joked. “So what happens is, like, when you write stuff or when you post pictures online, they never go away. Like, they’re always on there… Even after you send them, people are, like, analyzing them, to see what you’re interested in, to see what you’re talking about, and they sell that data… Everything. Anything you post online.â€
Mihai Florea, a software engineer at the company, corroborated Singh’s claims.
“That’s how we make most of our money,†he explained. “You’re basically paying for the right to use our website with your data basically, and it’s the same on every free website.
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Firenze Sage:Â Assume everything you write is useful blackmail material.