Tracy Rockwell
Sep 4, 2018 · 2 min read

I’m surprised you didn’t mention why “tech company” collects all this data which gets to the core of the problem. “Tech company” provides this service for free by selling your information to advertisers. Without that Face book, Alphabet, Twitter and many others wouldn’t exist. It didn’t start out with a malicious intent on their part; it’s just their business model. Well maybe it has morphed into some maliciousness. It’s comparable to why Network TV is free because it subjects you to advertisements. In reality, there’s only three options, 1) sell your info to advertisers, 2) charge for the service, 3) cease to exist. It is sad these companies aren’t up front about this reality, always pretending that your data is their number one priority, well in a sense it is, its worth a lot in aggregate. BTW, look at Mark Zuckerberg’s Face book page as well as all the top executives at Face book, they don’t use it in any way the way its marketed by these people, I’ve heard that Zuckerberg has a staff of 20 people full time scrubbing his page with unflattering information.

Personally I would be willing to pay annual fees so they wouldn’t track me, but I’m unclear if that could be fully done if you have a mixture of free and paying accounts, like when you use Face book to login into an app it shares countless data about your friends. I’m not sure they could ever fully separate the free ones from the pay ones.

The big difference from the Network TV model is the level of details they have on us is unprecedented in history. It’s a ticking time bomb, for Russians to take advantage of or Turkey’s Erdogan to filter out the supporters from the non-supporters or Trump going full Authoritarian and passing an edict that all new government employs can only be supporters of his regime, wait a minute he’s already doing that for the executive branch. Tick, Tick.

There was a really good podcast or article I can’t find at the moment that went into great detail on this, but the concept is quite simple and should be understood when pondering why in the world would these “tech companies” be doing this to us. You could argue this is capitalism in its purist form.

Tracy Rockwell

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Systems developer trying to apply systems methodology to the crazy world we find ourselves in