4 Things Facebook and Google Don’t Want You Know About Privacy, and What You Should Do
Both companies make money off your most valuable asset — your personal information. Here’s what you can do to protect yourself and your personal data.
By Jason Aten
Facebook and Google make billions of dollars selling access to the most valuable commodity in the world: You.
Facebook regularly claims that advertising is necessary to keep Facebook free for everyone. You provide your most valuable asset to these companies in exchange for services that exist primarily to feed you advertising.
While Facebook and Google have started to talk about shifting their practices to better respect your privacy, here are four things they don’t want you to know, and what you can do about it:
They know way more than you think.
Google knows what you search for online, where you travel, what’s on your calendar, who you take photos of, who your contacts are, which ads you click on and what you buy. For a lot of you, that’s more than your spouse or partner knows.
Facebook is the same, only it doesn’t have to guess based on your activity. You told the company. You put it…
